Ellen and I will be going to Johnny's Italian Grill this evening to enjoy an aged steak and stuffed pork chops. I have also purchased 26 Powerball tickets, so hopefully I will be a multi-millionaire for my birthday this year.
this photo is surreally awesome. a fine documentation of handsome american youths. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDEEEEEE. do some dancing since youre so good at it! and remember all your poor cousin-in-laws when you strike it big. love,-phe
We also love this album coverish brother-in-laws photo!
We did have a nice dinner. Andy had steak crusted with some kind of super rich cheese and breading mixture, shrimp stuffed with crab, and two martinis. I had seafood pomodoro and a bottle of Stella Artois. Then we went to Target to get a new living room rug, his cousin's wedding gift and Andy's gift; season 4 of It's Always SUnny in Philadelphia. I know it's not a great gift, but he just got some big thing for beer brewing for our anniversary too. Tonight we might walk through the new downtown sculpture garden that just opened up. Oh, Andy won $3 with his lotto tickets
On Friday night I am working at a Dave Matthews Band concert. I think I will actually be able to watch and listen to some of it, so it should be pretty awesome.
Of all the candidates I have personally met I liked Edwards the least. Not because of his politics but because there was something completely disingenuous about him. I mean I don't like the politics of that looney congressman from Ohio who runs all the time but he seems like a decent person.
Biden was my favorite. He either genuinely cares about people or he is really really good at faking it. I don't think he's a fake...He did do a personal favor for my server who was facing a financial crisis over a medical issue. He even called my house to follow up on her status.
About Edwards...it was revealed this week that he had told his mistress (the one with his lovechild)that just as soon as Elizabeth dies he will marry her...they have planned the wedding reception and it includes Dave Matthews.
He's as bad as the governor of South Carolina( I think) who went to visit his mistress without telling anyone where he was and then said,"I'm trying to fall back in love with my wife". Both are tools. Monica
I agree. That guy was amazing - a trainwreck(the guv). Though, Josh's coworker is from SC and his stepmom knows/has worked with the wife of the guv. Jenny Sanford. Is that her name? She's apparently kind of a nasty woman. Not that this minimizes his stupidity, but maybe they had some sort of marriage of convenience. I liked how she appeared to the public right after her husband's public humiliation. Right away she said her biggest concern was the character of her sons. p
HA! The babysitter just put the plastic golf club through her belt loop. Undoubtedly she is now Asoka and she probably has no idea what Jude is talking about.
This girl, Kenda, is great. She is in 8th grade and lives a block away and only charges $5 an hour - rock bottom prices around here. I usually pay her $7 because we are hoping she'll keep working for us for years to come. I only have her come over to play with Jude and Sam outside for an hour or two about twice a month, but I think since Scott's out of town I'll see if she can come over more the next couple weeks.
I just nominated my friend for the TV show "What Not to Wear" and she nominated me. If chosen, you get $5000 worth of clothes. They're looking for people in south Florida who deeply need help in the warddrobe area.
That's actually one of my favorite shows! They seem nice...they're good with the clothes, but not the hair and makeup...they'll cut your hair, Pat...be carefull! Oh, you have to cry at some point in the show.
Yeah I know. I'm certain they'll make me dress and look really dumpy for dramatic effect. Emily said the same thing about hair. At least hair can grow back...it would be worth a trip to new york and $5000 in clothes.
I think my friend has a better shot at it. She was a roller derby girl in Grand Rapids MI. I wrote about how her style does not match her new position as media relations coordinator for a fine arts musuem in fashion conscious south Florida, that it's really holding her back. Her photos that I submitted have her dressed in outfits like big long boys shorts with boots and short shorts with lace tights (the latter being one of her roller derby outfits). She actually dresses fashionably, but it fits the show.
Yesterday about an hour and a half after arriving at work I got a phone call from Emma's school.
Emma fainted and threw up. Can I please come pick her up.
Since I know it'll at least be 40 minutes before I get there, I ask them to put her on the phone (so I can reassure her that I am coming) and she's telling me that she was in a dream and when she woke up she was on the floor and everyone was staring at her.
I get her and take her home and put her to bed... she ended up throwing up three times yesterday and couldn't stand. Fever of 102 / 102 most of the day.
The doctor's office said not to bother calling back unless she reached 104.
Last night we went to see a movie at the Dundee Theater called "Into Temptation" that was written and directed by a guy who grew up in Omaha named Brian Coyle. It's about a priest in a poor Omaha parish who hears a hooker's confession that she plans to kill herself and spends the rest of the movie trying to find her without violating the seal of the confessional. With a couple little slipups that only a regular-mass-attending Catholic would see or notice (Brian is probably not one) it was very authentic and a good movie. The fat guy from "The Office" played his priest friend in a rich parish in West Omaha who offers (somewhat cynical) advice and tries to protect him. It was really good, so if you get a chance to see it somewhere or rent it, do. Oddly, it was filmed entirely in Minneapolis.
Thanks Cathy! I can't wait to see that movie...it's actually Patrick Coyle, he grew up at 51st and Farnam (near our old house)and graduated from Creighton Prep in 1976, so he's would have been at Prep the same time as Alexander Payne (Payne's parents live at 52nd and Farnam!)...I wonder if there is an instructor who influencd them... Before the film premeired, he had a private showing with his Dad at a hospice in Omaha, his Dad died a couple weeks later...they're a big Irish Catholic family in Omaha.
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Happy Birhtday Andy! This is one of my favorite-of-all-time photos, but I bet you don't remember me taking it!
I think there are some other photos on this roll that should be posted instead. A painted lady come to mind.
Andy, happy birthday!
D
hAPPY bIRTHDAY aNDY...sUMMER JUST ENDED 40 MINUTES AGO...HAVE A TOAST FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY AND FOR A GREAT aUTUMN!!
mARY AND mIKE
Happy Birthday Andy. What a great photo. It should be an album cover.
p
Happy Birthday Andy! Happy Autumn! I love this picture.
Hope your birthday was fun Andy. Did you get anything interesting?
Monica
Happy birthday, Andy!
This has got to be one of the grooviest photos ever posted.
What did you do? What did you get?
Lisa
Happy Birthday Andy,
I'll see to it that Donny Jr. gets you that trick air rifle you have coveted for all these years.
Tom
Happy Birthday Andy! Yes, tell us how you will celebrate.
Ellen and I will be going to Johnny's Italian Grill this evening to enjoy an aged steak and stuffed pork chops. I have also purchased 26 Powerball tickets, so hopefully I will be a multi-millionaire for my birthday this year.
Andy
this photo is surreally awesome. a fine documentation of handsome american youths. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDEEEEEE. do some dancing since youre so good at it! and remember all your poor cousin-in-laws when you strike it big. love,-phe
ps
the smoking gun on brian's shirt is riveting
We also love this album coverish brother-in-laws photo!
We did have a nice dinner. Andy had steak crusted with some kind of super rich cheese and breading mixture, shrimp stuffed with crab, and two martinis. I had seafood pomodoro and a bottle of Stella Artois. Then we went to Target to get a new living room rug, his cousin's wedding gift and Andy's gift; season 4 of It's Always SUnny in Philadelphia. I know it's not a great gift, but he just got some big thing for beer brewing for our anniversary too. Tonight we might walk through the new downtown sculpture garden that just opened up. Oh, Andy won $3 with his lotto tickets
On Friday night I am working at a Dave Matthews Band concert. I think I will actually be able to watch and listen to some of it, so it should be pretty awesome.
Mmmm. Tis the season for Honeycrisp.
Ellen, let us know if you see John Edwards at the Dave Matthews concert.
I really really really really really really really dislike John Edwards.
p
Scott says they're doing a 3-4 min. story about DS at the UN General Assembly tonight on the CBS news.
What's DS? David Sandborn? Donald Sutherland? Don Straub? Dick Stockwell?
Of all the candidates I have personally met I liked Edwards the least. Not because of his politics but because there was something completely disingenuous about him. I mean I don't like the politics of that looney congressman from Ohio who runs all the time but he seems like a decent person.
Biden was my favorite. He either genuinely cares about people or he is really really good at faking it. I don't think he's a fake...He did do a personal favor for my server who was facing a financial crisis over a medical issue. He even called my house to follow up on her status.
Tom
OH, DS is Diplomatic Security
About Edwards...it was revealed this week that he had told his mistress (the one with his lovechild)that just as soon as Elizabeth dies he will marry her...they have planned the wedding reception and it includes Dave Matthews.
I'm disappointed in DM.
That's why I particularly dislike him at this particular time. Awful person.
p
He's as bad as the governor of South Carolina( I think) who went to visit his mistress without telling anyone where he was and then said,"I'm trying to fall back in love with my wife". Both are tools.
Monica
I agree. That guy was amazing - a trainwreck(the guv).
Though, Josh's coworker is from SC and his stepmom knows/has worked with the wife of the guv. Jenny Sanford. Is that her name?
She's apparently kind of a nasty woman. Not that this minimizes his stupidity, but maybe they had some sort of marriage of convenience. I liked how she appeared to the public right after her husband's public humiliation. Right away she said her biggest concern was the character of her sons.
p
Cathy...I don't think D.M. knew any of this...
Has Eliz. Edwards appeared in public lately? She really needs to leave him...
Don't be telling Elizabeth what to do.
HA! The babysitter just put the plastic golf club through her belt loop. Undoubtedly she is now Asoka and she probably has no idea what Jude is talking about.
This girl, Kenda, is great. She is in 8th grade and lives a block away and only charges $5 an hour - rock bottom prices around here. I usually pay her $7 because we are hoping she'll keep working for us for years to come. I only have her come over to play with Jude and Sam outside for an hour or two about twice a month, but I think since Scott's out of town I'll see if she can come over more the next couple weeks.
I just nominated my friend for the TV show "What Not to Wear" and she nominated me.
If chosen, you get $5000 worth of clothes. They're looking for people in south Florida who deeply need help in the warddrobe area.
p
No news story about DS tonight. Not sure what happened.
Yeah thanks for making me see what's going on in the world!!
p
Oh my gosh...
send them to Iowa.
I desperately need help in the wardrobe area.
lisa
That's actually one of my favorite shows! They seem nice...they're good with the clothes, but not the hair and makeup...they'll cut your hair, Pat...be carefull! Oh, you have to cry at some point in the show.
They go through every item in your closet and toss it all as they talk about it...they hate t-shirts, so hide your STRAUB T!
Yeah I know. I'm certain they'll make me dress and look really dumpy for dramatic effect. Emily said the same thing about hair. At least hair can grow back...it would be worth a trip to new york and $5000 in clothes.
I think my friend has a better shot at it. She was a roller derby girl in Grand Rapids MI. I wrote about how her style does not match her new position as media relations coordinator for a fine arts musuem in fashion conscious south Florida, that it's really holding her back. Her photos that I submitted have her dressed in outfits like big long boys shorts with boots and short shorts with lace tights (the latter being one of her roller derby outfits). She actually dresses fashionably, but it fits the show.
p
Ok
Yesterday about an hour and a half after arriving at work I got a phone call from Emma's school.
Emma fainted and threw up. Can I please come pick her up.
Since I know it'll at least be 40 minutes before I get there, I ask them to put her on the phone (so I can reassure her that I am coming) and she's telling me that she was in a dream and when she woke up she was on the floor and everyone was staring at her.
I get her and take her home and put her to bed... she ended up throwing up three times yesterday and couldn't stand. Fever of 102 / 102 most of the day.
The doctor's office said not to bother calling back unless she reached 104.
Lisa
Last night we went to see a movie at the Dundee Theater called "Into Temptation" that was written and directed by a guy who grew up in Omaha named Brian Coyle. It's about a priest in a poor Omaha parish who hears a hooker's confession that she plans to kill herself and spends the rest of the movie trying to find her without violating the seal of the confessional. With a couple little slipups that only a regular-mass-attending Catholic would see or notice (Brian is probably not one) it was very authentic and a good movie. The fat guy from "The Office" played his priest friend in a rich parish in West Omaha who offers (somewhat cynical) advice and tries to protect him. It was really good, so if you get a chance to see it somewhere or rent it, do. Oddly, it was filmed entirely in Minneapolis.
Get better soon Emma!
p
Thanks Cathy! I can't wait to see that movie...it's actually Patrick Coyle, he grew up at 51st and Farnam (near our old house)and graduated from Creighton Prep in 1976, so he's would have been at Prep the same time as Alexander Payne (Payne's parents live at 52nd and Farnam!)...I wonder if there is an instructor who influencd them...
Before the film premeired, he had a private showing with his Dad at a hospice in Omaha, his Dad died a couple weeks later...they're a big Irish Catholic family in Omaha.
The picture of balboa's head in the piece to the side looks like the head of the aliens in the final Indiana Jones...
lisa
Hmmm, do you have the fever, Lisa?
Poor Emma. I hope she feels better today.
Mary, Lisa is talking about the This Day in History to the right of Brian.
Monica
Mary, seeing as how you moved abou 6 times in Omaha alone, what famous Omaha native didn't come from one of you're old neighborhoods?
Feel better Emma.
Ernie Chambers.
funny! I was trying to remember that name.
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