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Right now I'm up, 4:35AM, watching the fish and frogs swim around in the aquarium. I might read soon. Maybe I'll work out. My wife's 40th birthday is today, and I set up the kitchen with 40 bottles of Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy (her favorite beer), 40 packs of M and M's (her favorite candy), a list of 40 cool things about her, and a gift certificate to the mall. We usually don't make a big deal out of birthdays or whatever, so I hope she likes it. Here's a pic:http://randomanthonyreturns.blogspot....
thoughtful and fun thing to do for her birthday. the girls out there are swooning over the effort you put in and us guys are hoping your wife doesn't know ours so she can't tell them how great you are (and in turn make us out to be caveman schmucks)great job!
Happy B-day to the Mrs. RA! I'm only disappointed you don't have 40 pink flamingos in the yard ... but the beer is cooler. I just fished a turtle out of the pool---a big fucker, too.
i am up at 8:30 checking sports scores and on you guys in the quiet while waiting to take off for Panara Bread for a meeting in an hour. got home and in bed around 3am (late for this ol dad) after going to muncie, IN to see my son and his band play a show at a club there. he rocked and wailed and was his normal charismatic self PLUS i took my other two kids and their boyfriend/girlfriend with us along with 5 others in a humungo 12 passenger van i borrowed. great evening
Thanks, gentlemen...she liked it, and she's going shopping this afternoon...which means I can drink beer, eat M and M's, and watch basketball at home. Everyone wins!From where did this turtle come? Do you have wild turtles in your neighborhood, Kirk?
3AM? Dang, Kevin...you're the man...
Nools: I can't wait.Anthony: :) Thanks. Where'd you go for your undergrad? Frozen cornfields are beautiful. I'm glad that Mr. Waits got you through those tough times.
For that part of my undergrad I was in scenic Bloomington-Normal, Illinois State, Matthew...absolutely the middle of nowhere.Right now I just finished an hour on the elliptical while watching a Gossip Girl episode.
I'm glad your dog is going to be ok! It's scary. My sister is a vet, I have to ask her about this expressing thing--UGH!Our Borders seems like it might go out of business
:( They've cut their hours and I heard them talking yesterday about how many people they've let go. And my friend who owns the independent book store here has his place for sale. He can't make it financially. It's so depressing! I do all my best writing at Borders! I have to have a Borders!!! And The Village Bookstore is the best. I hope somehow that Doug will be able to stay in business. I hate what's happening to bookstores!
Our Borders cut their hours, too. I've heard the whole company has been under the gun for a while...I'd hate to see them close. They're the closest larger bookstore to me.
Yeah that would be tragic. I don't have big bookstores that close to me but, books are everything.
Happy Birthday to a lucky lady!!Kevin, it sounds like your kids are busy with all kinds of great stuff--bands and getting married! Wow!
I don't understand why Boders is doing bad and Books-A-Million isn't. Strange. Borders is so much better!
I'm procrastinating. Today is cleaning day. Woe is me.
I am listening to Brahm's "German Requiem" while tracking the next TC mix CD and watching my son play with his action figures in what he calls "the forest of beer", or a collection of beer bottles on the dining room table.Larry also reminds me I must do laundry...
Anthony, hearing about your son is making me nostalgic for when my daughter was little. It's so fun watching them play and hearing the amazing things that come out of their mouths. Every stage is great, but once they start talking and being imaginative--wow! She's 16 now, and we're a lot closer than I thought we would be--just going by my experience of being 16. And we have good talks and stuff. But sometimes I really miss the days back when she didn't know quite so much about this world and what goes on in it, and also, back then we both agreed that I know more than she does about pretty much everything. Now she's very much into disputing that! Of course!
Right now I'm about to go upstairs and read. I want to get up early, work out, then get to the office before seven. Good night, people:)
I just got done doing some coding--trying to get a head start on the week. Last week I had to play catch up all week, and I never did catch up.
I just crawled back to my apartment. It's freezing in here because I left all the windows open. There was a fire next door today, and I had to stay at a friend's until now because our place was filled with smoke. Our stuff is okay, though.What an exhausting day.
Oh, Nools, how stressful for you! I'm glad you're okay, if a bit smoky.
Nools, so glad you and your stuff are OK. Still, so so stressful. And now I bet everything stinks.
Most people are out of town for spring break. It started downstairs, in the room under our neighbors'. I'm glad they're safe in socal, but I don't think all of their apartment made it. It was pretty surreal. I didn't realize how mentally draining it was until I got back. I can hardly move, but the cold is keeping me up.
Thanks for the well-wishes, Jackie, BunWat.
In other news: My facebook updates page is wallpapered in "OMG KOREAAAAA!" So I can tell, without a TV, exactly what's going on in the Baseball World Classic. Hahahaha, oh, nationalistic Koreans and your moderately-frightenting bloodlust for defeating the Japanese in everything.....
Thanks, Lori. It does smell pretty bad, but I am still so relieved that everything looks okay.
"nationalistic Koreans and your moderately-frightenting bloodlust for defeating the Japanese in everything..... "I just adore you, Nools, and your fresh cynicism but still accepting funny perceptions. My type of humor!
Haha, thanks again, Lori! : )By the way, I just found out we lost. So close... and I find myself quietly disappointed. It would appear I am truly Korean after all.
And there's the rub! hahahahahaha!Yep, it's true. No matter how modern, intellectual and liberated we think we are, we still have these ancient heritages that demand attention. It's childlike, like our color war team.
Oh, did Korea win? Japan didn't repeat? That would be a huge deal.Right now I'm up, 2:31AM. I'm not sure why. I fell asleep at eight, at least, so I think I'll work out at 3AM, quietly, then go to work early. I have a meeting at an elementary school at 8:30. I can probably leave at noon if I get a shitload done this morning. Yay flexible schedules.
No, I'm going to make time to pray/meditate before I work out. I need to do that more. Have a lovely day everyone. Or a lovely tomorrow, for you west coasters who are still up.
Nools, sorry for the added stress you had to encounter, hopefully you can get the smell back out again.
Also sorry that Korea lost, but its sounds like it was a terrific game.
Also sorry that Korea lost, but its sounds like it was a terrific game.
i was stunned by the nationalism and patriotism shown by the korean and japanese fans at the game. incredibly polite and enthusiastic. great fans. and for the most part, the players hustled and played harder way more than their american counterparts. i am a baseball fan in the biggest way and i have to say i was ultra impressed with this style of play and intensity of the fans. american baseball needs to take notes
http://randomanthonyreturns.blogspot....7:07PM...
Ten year old doing his homework at the dining room table, eight year old reading about WW2 on the couch, way in the back of the picture, and the six year old spreading paper all over the living room floor so he can draw maps...
You can kind of see my laptop, by the way, on the ottoman...I often sit and check TC in that glider...
(If you click on the picture you can make it bigger, but then you see how messy my house can get on a Tuesday night.)
That picture makes me homesick and nostalgic for my childhood. I took those days so much for granted.Such pleasant domesticity, RA. You have something very nice, there. It makes me think twice about never having children.
That looks so peaceful, RA. Three boys, all holding still... amazing!
Wow. Peace and quiet in a house of 3 boys?
Trés charmant, but I'm still never having kids. At least, not on purpose (heh heh). Speaking of which, we're all still in the dorm room... a night of bowling, drinking, and depravity awaits!
I posted this on my friend's wall today (She and I talked for 2 hours at a party on Saturday night.):"I have to say, for the record, that you contribute to some of the most surreal moments of my life. After Melissa's party, I went home to hang out with the dogs and watch one of the movies I picked up at the library. I threw in 21 Grams... and about 15 minutes into the movie, there you were - sitting at the dinner table with Sean Penn and Charlotte Gainsbourg. That ALWAYS seems to happen when I see you - I see/get to catch up with you, and then soon after, see you in a movie. You have NOOO idea how funny this is to me. :)"
True story. Same thing happened when I watched Rainmaker...
Matthew wrote: "Trés charmant, but I'm still never having kids. At least, not on purpose (heh heh). Speaking of which, we're all still in the dorm room... a night of bowling, drinking, and depravity awaits!"Okay, but a lot of people say that when they're 19. When you're 30 and married, you might feel differently.
Re 644-647...thanks, people:) One of the reasons I took the picture is because that sort of scene, with everyone so focused, is, ahem, not that common. An hour earlier I had sent all three upstairs to wrestle before they trashed the living room.Right now I'm on the couch, grading papers before I drive into the office and later observe a student. If I can get out early enough...COSTCO!:)
i love the peek into your house. a moment where they are all working on stuff. our house was like that before the kids got older. quiet and then mayhem and then quiet and then roaring. now it is quiet more than not and i like it but i miss the din of a family. we had all three kids and associated GF/BF's over on saturday night and the confusion and noise was wonderful
That does sound cool, Kevin...I like those nights, too...usually bonfire nights in the summer...
I just returned from my lunch break... 20 minutes late. I made the mistake of wearing my namebadge (which clearly states that I work at a hospital)during my lunchbreak. Strangers have a tendency to tell me about their hospital experiences/traumas when I wear it in public. I was kicking myself as soon as the conversation started. Shop clerk told me about her dad who stayed here for 4 months last year to die a very violent, graphic death from esophogeal cancer... and now she comes fairly often with her mother who's dying of brain cancer. I mean, I feel priviledged that strangers feel the need to share such deeply personal and intimate experiences with me. It's just typically when I'm in a time crunch. Thank goodness I didn't have anyone waiting for me back at the clinic.Kevin, RA... I'm jelly! :)
My god I'm tired:)Strangers have a tendency to tell me about their hospital experiences/traumas when I wear it in public.
Wait, we're allowed to do that with you, Heidi? Damn, and I've been wasting all this time...:)
you must seem approachable and caring heidi. great qualities!
Right now I'm waiting for my friends to come over. We're having an 80s Fantasy Movie Night! Movies from which to choose: The Never-Ending Story, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Willow, Time Bandits, Legend, and Excalibur. We're not bringing The Princess Bride out because we just watched that (which is what made us decide to do an 80s Fantasy Movie Night).We've also got lots of popcorn and movie candy and sodas and adult beverages. Who says you can't have a fun night without spending (much) money?
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I'm about to get off the computer for the first time in nearly 12 hours to go watch a movie and get under the slanket with Sweeter. Perhaps I'll pop some corn and have an adult beverage. :D
Today I coded for 9 hours, then picked up a friend who is a writer, then picked up Emily and her best friend, dropped the girls off downtown at the movies, then we went to Borders and wrote and browsed. Now back home and the girls are in Emily's bedroom for the night and it's nice and peaceful with the Beatles Love cd playing.
That does sound like fun, Sarah...I was thinking of something similar this weekend...we rented a couple of movies, etc. and other than that we weren't doing much....Every time Leslie say she coded I think of "coded" as a medical term and thinking something bad happened until I read the rest and realize she's talking about computers (you are talking about computers, right, Leslie?)
I´m in Argentina, in the city of Rosario, about to go out BY MYSELF in this place where they don´t speak English or French, and try my very limited Spanish in an attempt to buy postcards.It is sunny and around 80 degrees outside, and I´m wearing a sleeveless dress and my flip-flops. So much for it being fall here!
Excellent! Good luck, Jacks! I'm sure your Spanish will suffice. Or they'll speak English. I counted on the latter and the "point and maul the language" strategy in Europe.
I do a lot of ¨que es esto?"ing, myself, RA. And sometimes some French slips out.
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The only semester of college I lived away from Chicago sucked. I remember getting on the bus on Sunday nights to go back to campus, listening to Tom Waits, and crying as the bus cut through frozen cornfields. I knew next to nobody, I had to move twice because of dorm overloads, etc. And that's not even mentioning freshman year, when I essentially gave up.