tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81901856209802240342011-07-31T05:03:58.412-04:00All kinds of crazy stories....Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.comBlogger1311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-11193086252534224002010-06-04T12:28:00.003-04:002010-06-04T12:39:08.702-04:00

Yesterday was SJC Rugby's end of the year alumni v/s seniors game (though we had several juniors playing), and subsequent picnic. We managed to get through the game without an actual "storm," but the rain did come, and thunder was periodic. Unfortunately it did come through shortly after the whistle blew, and everyone was forced to crowd in to the concession stand and press-box. It was "cozy."

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I remember when summer was a time to sing. I used to love the feeling of the school year ending, of getting all excited about spending my days at the pool, grilling every night, working on whatever semblance of a tan I could muster. Those days have eluded me for the past several years now. I've gotta say, it sucks. I knew, upon leaving my job at Gallaudet, that I would be giving up that oh-so

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In September, my boss annouced he was going to retire at the end of the fiscal year (which had just started, so we still had about 11 months to go). Being that he's our CEO, search parties were formed, and the job was officially posted (probably in half a bazillion places around the internet). In the late winter, the four top candidates came in to interview, and at our convention last month

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Ok, so the next SEVERAL blogs below are reverse order (as all blogs read) reposts from my old MySpace blog. I'm considering cancelling the account, but didn't want to lose my old posts. They're all dated, so you can clearly see when they're originally from.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 I’ve been to the holideckFrom my experience with Star Treck, there were numerous episodes (or maybe it just seemed like numerous episodes) where someone goes to the holideck. This person would ask the computer to load program xyz and magically they'd be transported (or so it seemed) to a dark, smokey lounge, with a live jazz band, or maybe a blues singer, a stiff martini

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Monday, April 21, 2008 Chores for two - what I’ve been trying to accomplish for years!Chores for two: Why men don't pitch inLeslie Bennetts explores the role men play in housework and childrearingBy Leslie BennettsTango MediaAs a reporter, I often travel on assignment. When my children were small, the prospect of my leaving town for a few days typically elicited great alarm from our family's

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Monday, February 11, 2008 Memories and Michael JacksonDo you ever forget how much you loved Michael Jackson? No, not recently loved him, but in like 1st grade loved him. When I was in 1st grade, along with many of you - Michael Jackson was da bomb. He was the coolest, most talented, best entertainer out there. We all loved his songs (go ahead, try and deny it), wanted to do the moonwalk like

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008Fit ClubSo, I'm pretty sure I've been complaining about being fat and flabby since round about mid 2001. And then I got un fat, but remained flabby around 2006, and now I'm back to fat and flabby (though relatively less fat than prior to 2006). I'm good at complaining, it's one of my strong points. What I'm not good at is actually getting my ass in gear to do something

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Friday, January 18, 2008 My reintroduction to Dr. SeussHow long has it been since you read a Dr. Seuss book? Well, for you parents it probably has only been a few days or a few hours or perhaps even a few weeks. I can safely say that since the birth of Josh, and even a few months prior, some 7 years ago, I've been reading Dr. Seuss on a somewhat regular basis. This is all fine and dandy except

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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 Death of a perfectly good travel bagSo, if you've talked to me, or read any of my blogs over the past 6-8 months you have probably noticed that I've done a bit of travelling. Most of this is work related, some of this is volunteer related, some of it is maintaining my certification and so on and so forth. Regardless of the purpose, I've been making my rounds about the

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Friday, November 30, 2007 How Project Playlist has failed meYou might have noticed how I'm kinda into the whole Project Playlist thing. Or, maybe you didn't notice, but it's that little purple box about midway down my page that plays odd and assorted songs that I painstakingly search out and put on the list for your enjoyment (or the cure my boredom on slow days at work -either way). Generally

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 A funny thing happend on the way to the....Well, not so much on the way to anything, but rather at the Nova Brewfest last weekend, and more specifically, at the Welbilt show portion of the day. So, we went to beerfest. Met up with Beth, and Ryan and his girlfriend whose name escapes me at the moment, but undoubtedly Beth will comment me with this information. We

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Sunday, September 16, 2007 Yo Amo Pastalitos! - Episode 9I might have mentioned in prior blogs that the food in Venezuela (at least the stuff we were being force fed) was not the world's greatest stuff. We wanted to go out and be adventurous, sample some of the local flavor, but the opportunity really wasn't there (until the very end when we were all outta dough of course). On day 3, the start

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Extreme street crossing - Episode 8I really didn't have much reason, or opportunity really, to cross the street while in Venezuela. Our hotel was on what appeared to be the main drag. Lots of stores and such up and down from the hotel and virtually anything you could want was on the same side of the road. I did; however, have a couple of experiences crossing the

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Monday, September 10, 2007 The ATM(s) that wouldn’t give - Episode 7During my unexpectedly long stay at Dulles on my way down to Miami, I thought that I might just go ahead and exchange some of my cash for some Venezuelan money. I sure as hell trusted the exchange at Dulles more than whatever the hell was gonna greet me in Caracas, so I found the nearest exchange window in the C terminal. The

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Thursday, September 06, 2007The Smoldering Accordion Player - Episode 6It's due time that I put some serious effort in to describing the unique musical experience that was my trip to Venezuela. Of course it's a different country, with a different language, a different culture, different food, water you can't drink or bathe in safely, and along with all that - different music. At the start of the

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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 Choose Your Own Adventure Elevators - Episode 5So, one of the interesting tid bits about our hotel in Valencia were the elevators. There were three of them to cover the 18 floor hotel (though there was no button for the 18th floor - there was a sign in the elevator clearly stating that the ballroom and conference rooms could be found there.)The elevator on the left

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Sunday, August 26, 2007 Manageing the four languages - Episode 4I often find, in everyday life, that if I come across someone who doesn't understand what I'm saying when I speak then certainly they will understand what I'm saying when I sign it in ASL. At least that's what makes sense in my head. Nevermind that the reality of it is not the slightest bit true..... my head continues to think this

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Donde Busscar? - Episode 3"Donde busscar?" "Where's the bus?" This became a favorite phrase of mine during the trip. Thanks, Todd, for introducing me to itYet another recurring theme over the course of the 10 days was the absence and/or malfunctioning of the buses. This theme is present from the very begining when we arrived at the airport. A bus was supposed to be

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 The first 24 hours - Episode 2Alright, so I said this would be less episodal and more subjective; however, I feel like rehashing the first 24 hours in the order that they occurred - so here goes.My flight outta Dulles was supposed to be at 6:30pm on a Thursday. I sneaked outta work a smidge early to give myself enough time to go home, throw my crap in the car, and allow

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Where do you want me to start?I guess I should start with the really bothersome aspects of this entire experience. If I get that stuff off my chest first then I'll be able to move on with the positives of the trip (there were plenty of positives) and not drone on about the BS of it all. "Donde agua?" "Where's the water?" This was a phrase that everyone should've

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Monday, August 20, 2007 Yes, I’m still a Venezuelan doctor...(preface)Well, you may or may not recall me writing a nice bit on how I'm a Venezuelan doctor - just about a year ago. I swore up and down that I would never....ever... put myself in to that sort of situation again, but alas.....it happend anyway. What can I say - I'm not a bad person. Regardless, this year's adventure actually took

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Sunday, August 05, 2007 Googlenopery...I enjoy the Washington Post. I get it delivered to my house every day of the week, every week of the year, and (if I'm lucky) I take the opportunity each day to peruse the pages, read what I like and recycle it when I'm finished. Sunday is particularly good because so many more things come with the Sunday edition. Today I was blessed to receive a full

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Why you should listen to your hot water tankA few of you might remember me mentioning a couple of months ago how we should get a new hot water tank. The water looked dingy, so we figured (and were given advice) to drain it and give it a nice rinse. So we did that, a couple of times in a row, yet.........still dingy water. So we figured that we'd have to set aside some

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 Social ExperimentsSo, I decided that I was in desperate need of an ice cream sundae this morning. My neck is hurting, things have been less than grand with the recent and sudden passing of a friend from college and his little boy, and I just want some damn ice cream. So after lunch I convince my work friend that she too needs a trip down to the closest ice cream shop -

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Monday, July 02, 2007 Rockin out in Cali..... Well, I've been to California and back and sadly I just don't have that much to report. I guess the first thing that I noticed was when we made our descent in to John Wayne Airport. The mountains were amazing. Very steep and just sort of plopped down in the middle of the place. A few miles up there would be a smaller mountain "range" and then

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Monday, June 04, 2007 Well, there's a chance that I'm coming to not so certain terms with my "desk" job. While I really love my job, and what I'm doing here - I'm faced with the aspect that I happen to spend the majority of my days sitting at a desk. I feel the need to move. I want to get up and do laps around the building - or run the stairs, or head outside to walk the trails in the park.

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Friday, May 25, 2007 Too much fun with the music playerSo there's a chance that I'm completely obsessed with my myspace music player. Granted, I do often use it at work for something to listen to, so I like to keep it updated, but now it's turning in to a life story of sorts. I'm remembering songs that I loved when I was very little and adding those to it. Songs that remind me of friends from

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Monday, May 21, 2007 Crazy Whack JuneWell, it looks as though May is nearly over which brings to us the month of June. Normally this would be a time that I cherish as school is out, I'd get to lie by the pool daily and try my damnedest to get a decent tan (and perhaps actually get in and swim). For years and years I've been relishing June. Always a time of fond memories of NATA convention,

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 New CarOk, try not to get all pissy with me after reading this because I didn't call and tell you or whatever - bad news is not something I like to call and talk about.Now that I've gotten the disclaimer off my chest....Just about one week ago - I totalled my poor little Jetta. It ended up mushed under an SUV (go figure) on 66. Nonetheless, I came out relatively ok. What

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Friday, April 13, 2007 All put out - and probably over nothing.....Ya ya ya, so here's the part where I use my blog to bitch about how I feel crappy today because of other people and their careless comments - or something like that...Ok, so a few weeks ago my best friend since forever gave birth to her 2nd child. While this isn't a world changing event, it's big news for me. I'm thrilled for

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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 New Joby JobWell, after a brief detour in to the world of high paying - yet completely meaningless jobs, I have landed myself something quite interesting and appropriate. Today I signed an offer letter with the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, otherwise known as AAHPERD. Starting very soon I will be the Joint Projects Program

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Well, I suppose at this juncture, if you have been my friend, let's say - since March, you know full and well about Matty. He's not a boyfriend, or even a good friend, or even a friend of any sort really. He plays guitar (the bass for all intents and purposes of this blog) and has a really great stage character. He likes to entertain Shannon and I when we stand in his corner, and he is fun to

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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 How I got the bubonic plagueSo I started my new job a week ago. So far, so good. Had some serious trouble with traffic and such the first couple of days so I had no option but to take the VRE in. This is fine and dandy, but it leaves me little option but to catch a train home at 6:56pm. I can't go any earlier and I can't go any later. There are pros and cons to

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Thursday, October 19, 2006 NoVa and RoVa - Stolen from The WP... too funnySo, I read this column yesterday in Style and found it really humorus so I decided to share. Hope you enjoy it as much as I didNoVa and RoVa: Welcome to a State Of DisagreementWednesday, October 18, 2006; C01Recent polls confirm the common assumption that Northern Virginians tend to be much more liberal than those in the

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Thursday, October 12, 2006 We're supposed to take 95 South......Ok, so I last left off at the end of our long ass trip north to Worcester, Massachusetts. Scruffy and I got all cleaned up and went out to a club. Carl, his chic, and another coach met us out a short while later and we all had a pretty good time until I had a violent reaction to a drink and the night ended poorly. My best guess is

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Monday, October 09, 2006 We're supposed to take 95 North........I've been on two long trips this year with football. The first trip was to Connecticut/NY to play SUNY- Maritime. Alot of funny stuff happend on that trip, but I neglected to blog about it after we got back and consequently forgot alot of the funny things that happend. I will post my favorite quote from the trip which is "Look

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Saturday, September 23, 2006 CohabitationWe're fast coming up on a year with Ben. It was a tough decision to get a dog in the first place because I had always said I wouldn't traumatize Eric by introducing a dog in to the house. Eric hasn't really ever been a big fan of dogs, but I've seen him deal with a dog situation in less than a week before, so I was pretty sure he'd be ok. I was actually

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 I am a Venezuelan doctor....I'm sure if you've talked to me in the past month I've told you that I am now a Venezuelan doctor. There's a relatively long story behind this, but I'll try to keep it to a minimum. The entire Venezuelan experience was quite eye opening....................as much as I wanted to shut them. Keep in mind all of these events happend right

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Sunday, August 13, 2006 PanAm Part 2..........Ok, so where'd I leave off? I think it was about the time I somehow became the facilities coordinator for the entire event (without ever being asked or volunteering for said position). So, being from the host country I somehow assume the duty of talking to the PG facility and relaying the information to the committee members. At this point in time I

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 PanAm.........part 1Alright, it's about time I got this burden off my chest and on to the keyboard, or screen, or however it is that it's coming off. PanAm........Deaf PanAm to be specific....... I'm not sure that I can say I was particularly looking forward to working this event, but I thought, at least it would be a cultural experience and I tend to value those. What

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 This past Saturday night...........Well, as I've told many of you.......I've got blog material for weeks to come based on my past weeks experience with the PanAm games. I am gonna start; however, with the end. By far it was the best time I've had in awhile, not to mention the best time I had all week. Plus, it's just a fun story. Ok, so my original plans for Saturday

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Monday, July 17, 2006 Visiting, shows, parties, and work........Let's see..........last I left off, we'd just had a fantastic 4th and were moving on to bigger and better things. Took the fam to the Welbilt show at Friday Night Live. All was well till Josh decided (1/3 of the way in to the Welbilt portion of the show) that he'd had enough. I do not take kindly to this inclination and spend the

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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 Laundry and holidaysYesterday was the 4th, and a good one it was. Brad had the day off, so it was nice to get in some family time. Our neighborhood had a pool party/bbq that we headed out to early in the afternoon. By far the busiest I've ever seen the pool (and I've seen it get a little crazy), but everyone had a really great time. Visited with some friends who we

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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Blogging makes it better :) Ok, so I'm about fed up with the rain. Today wasn't even the wave, brief sunshine, wave, kinda day......... it was full on rain.........all damn day. It's starting to affect me adversely. I'm really holding out hope that Thursday will truly be a "day of rest" and the sun will come out and things will dry up. Maybe I can begin to work on my

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 More blogging...........Alrighty, so here's a real blog. Brandy was complaining that I haven't blogged about my trip to WV, or really anything in awhile so I'm overdue. How bout we just go with the past 14 days. About 14 days ago I left for Atlanta for NATA Convention. All excited to be hanging out with my ATC friends and partying a little, Jenny and I boarded a plane

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Thursday, June 08, 2006 Out of order........Things have been a bit crappy for the past couple of days. This is mainly due to things being out of order. I've come to find that I don't deal well when things are out of order. So, we've been painting Josh's room, finally........for 5 days now. 5 days is way too long to be painting the smallest bedroom in the house. Thought it would be done this

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Monday, May 29, 2006 Eric Forman and Tivo DelayI realize that I'm blogging about an even that occurred about 2 weeks ago, but thanks to TIVO I'm just now getting around to it. Honestly I was putting it off because I was afraid to deal with it. Let me just start off by reiderating how much of a dork I am. I am in love with That 70's Show. I have been in love with it since it started many many

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Sunday, May 21, 2006 ExhaustedGot back from NY today. It was a quick trip, even though it wasn't that short. Four days goes by rather quickly. Had flight hassels going, had flight hassels coming. I swear I'm never flying in or outta that place again cause it's always a freakin fiasco. Regardless, we had a nice visit with my sister. Did get to see Jeremy for just a little while, and a no go

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Sunday, May 14, 2006 Events, past, present & future....Let me start by saying that I really need to give up bowling. It seems to me that in recent history (being the past 15 years or so) that every time I've been bowling I've already been hurt to the point where I couldn't bowl or I injured myself while bowling. Went bowling on Friday. Brad came and got to hang out with some of my friends (

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Sunday, May 07, 2006 Recap and ChangesAlrighty.........so I've made some changes to my page. Yes, the massive friends section is gone. I'd say you can all thank Chris Poe for this, but he's deleted his MySpace page and apparently handed the reins over to his signficant other who is now doing a fine job of maintaining her own page. Again, I really like to be able to make changes to that section

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006 Back to square oneWell, my glorified guest room scheme has come to a screeching halt. I tried to haul the chair up there this evening. Didn't happen. I had a couple of different ideas on how to get it up there. None of those ideas worked. The chair is just rather large and the stairway is just rather narrow. Seriously, and not to be at all offensive, but if one was

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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 Is it bad?Is it bad that I think I'm funny. I've just read over my Top 40 again and I think it's quite funny. Speaking of funny.......... Went out to dinner and had a general hang out with my cousin Julie and her roomie/bff Morganne whom I've actually spent more time with then Julie lately. This is due to Morganne's anthropology project on athletics in the deaf culture,

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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 Oh the drama.........Ok, let me start by saying that I broke down and spent the last hour of my life making one of those crazy Top 40 friends thingys. Don't get too attached to it folks. I really like to see people change their default pics and names and such, this doesn't allow for such changes unless I make them myself and at an hour a pop.........well I just can't see

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Monday, April 24, 2006 Happenings of all sortsWhere to start. Ok..........we'll start with the weekend. Saturday was Josh's first ever soccer game. It poured down the rain, but soccer does not stop for rain, so they kids played. I was really surprised, but Josh ran out there and played most of the game. He was soaked, but didn't really seem to mind. Sunday I was supposed to work because we

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 I love WelbiltI'm such a dork. But that's ok. I'm just completely and totally in love with Welbilt. I'm completely and totally in love with live music so....... ok it really could've been any local band that I fell in love with, but it's them who I love. I listen to their CD at least once a day (the 45 minute drive to work helps that, along with the serious lack of a

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Monday, April 17, 2006 Northern Virginia Barbies - Stolen from BeanI stole this from Bean cause I thought it was entirely too funny. I think there should've been an Alexandria Barbie though. Oh, and I live in Manassas and frankly I've not seen any of the things that are described under the Manassas Barbie profile. Mattel recently announced the release of Limited-Edition NoVa Barbie dolls for

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Monday, April 10, 2006 Beautiful day......Today was so gorgeous. It wasn't too hot, wasn't too windy, wasn't too cold.......just awesome. Got my help for the rest of the school year squared away which is the most I could ever hope for. Met Chris today, who will be coming to help me out on odd days when he's available. Really cool kid. Only been certified about a year, gettin ready to go to

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Monday, April 10, 2006 A funny thing happend on the train....Something my sister overheard on the train today:Stranger #1: Sheesh, men today, they don't know what they want. That's why I'm bisexual.Stranger #2: I'm Tracey, what's your name?It was just entirely too funny not to post. Not because of the nature of it, but because it was two totally perfect strangers on the subway in NY.

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Such a blah day today, but honestly I can't complain too much. I REALLY hate having to give up a day of my weekend to come in here and suffer through baseball and/or softball, so if the rain continues through tonight and in to tomorrow (as it should) then I'll get my day off which'll be a bonus. There's absolutely nothing going on here today which I also shouldn't complain about because usually

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I'm rather new to MySpace so I'm sure none of you have read a blog yet about the furnace that is my office. Today was really the first day of the year thus far that I've experienced these hellish conditions, but let me just tell you that last summer it was nearly unbearable. To start, there are only two temperatures here in the building......hell frozen over, or hell ablaze. Not to say that my

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Well, spring break is over. Thankfully it turned out to be a really long week with relatively nice weather (except for the day I had to come in to work the high school game in gale force winds.) Did manage to accomplish a few things. The begining of the stairs for instance, and a good bit of laundry. Last night I booked a trip to NY to visit Katie and crew for a few days in May. It'll be

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Recently I decided that I wanted to rip all the carpet off my stairs and paint them. This seems like a good idea, and I've seen pictures on the internet of lovely painted stairs where there used to be crappy carpet. I figured I'd take some of my free time over spring break to rip all the carpet off the stairs and that would give me 6 weeks until school is out to decide exactly what I wanted to

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It is unbelieveably gorgeous outside! Today we've got a high of 88 and I'm on spring break. Man I love working at a college. Sadly, this will end come this evening and when I have to go back to work on Saturday there'll be a high of 40 with a chance of snow. Ah, well.........today I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt and running every errand I've got.

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Shamrockfest Rocked! Did I already mention that? Troy's place was awesome as was his roomie and friends. Additionally he's got a girl and she was way cool, way cute, and totally sweet. Way to go Troy! At the actual Shamrockfest we listened to a couple of bands which were both really good. The one is from Philly tho so I doubt I'll be seeing them anytime soon, but their lead singer was a

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As if the original plan for Shamrockfest wasn't already great, it's now gotten event better. Getting together with even more friends (whom I haven't seen in years) for kegs & eggs, then off to see bands, then off to party some more. I'm so excited I might pee myself. Can't wait to get today over with so I can go home and wash the new green polo I picked up this morning!

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Well, the cat is now allowed out of the bag about Kendra leaving. Had to keep my mouth shut for a few days until she informed our athletic director (important that the boss doesn't find out 2nd hand). Having what will probably be our last hoorah at a party on Saturday and then off to Shamrockfest for some more hoorahs. Quite looking forward to it. Nothings better then beers, pinching, and

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Disclaimer: This is the first of MANY blog entries from my old MySpace blog. I'm thinking I'm going to cancel the account, but I didn't want to lose the blogs. I think that somewhere in the rule books there should be a section under inclimate weather that states if the temperature (windchill included) drops below 38 degrees on any given day, that the game/games should be rescheduled for a

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Ok, ok - so I'm officially a bad blogger. I am sorry people, but ya know, life gets in the way sometimes. It's certainly not for lack of bloggable material - God knows I get PLENTY of that on a regular basis. I've been debating about blogging on a specific incident that happened to me yesterday, but frankly it just made me so absurdly mad that I'd rather just forget about it instead of putting

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Holy crap! Where'd the year go? It seems like just yesterday I was moaning and groaning about how much my body hurt, about the crazy bumps and plaques brought on by the PUPPs, and let's not forget how I couldn't wear shoes. The time really flies when you're having fun..... or not. All I can say is "whew, glad that's over!" While 2009 was a rough year in many ways, it equally fabulous in so many

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It is t-1 week until Christmas. I guess I'm done with my shopping.... not that there was alot to get done in the first place. My tree is up, but still remains only partially decorated. Josh and I put a solid effort forth last night, but we bought a pretty tall tree this year and Brad is the only one tall enough to reach the top. Considering that we're flat broke - I did manage to get several

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I need a "slow down" button. Life is blazing past me and I can't quite keep up. A year or so ago I used to have perpetual anxiety about making my flights. I had so many trips piled up on top of each other that I was literally dreaming about the next trip as soon as one had ended. I deduced that this was likely my brain trying to prepare for the next event, but it just made me nervous all the

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I'm grappling with the fact that people I know are at a stage in their life where they have kids who need to maintain a certain GPA in order to play school sponsored sports. Compound that with the additional fact that at least one of these people has decided that it is more important for their kid to play sports than to do well in school. Yep, that's right. I honestly thought that ridiculous

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So, Josh's school has an artist in residence this week - Dan Dancer. Information about Dan, and the school encompassing art project he would execute while in residence was sent out a few weeks ago, and I was excited for Josh when I got this information. The kids are all wearing black and white and together will create the image of a huge panda on the school soccer field. A photo of this will

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Yesterday was our "free" day. Nobody had to go to work (shocker), there wasn't anything on the agenda for the day. We were free to do whatever we wanted. If Brad had his way we never would've seen the outside of the front door. I, however, had other plans. Josh needed a haircut, plus, he only had like 3 long sleeve shirts, so I wanted to shop around for a few more of those for him to wear.

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So, I just noticed that the last time I posted a blog was nearly 3 months ago. WTF? Where on earth did the time go? Alot has happened since August 6th, so here's a recap.August Katie & Bekir left to go back to Turkey at the end of the month, and Brinley started full time daycare with our neighbor (and Venezuelan goddess of childcare) Martiza. This is a fantabulous set up with her being only one

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... to get up and move. Sitting at my desk is detrimental to my health. I discovered this a couple of years ago when I took this job and realized that it took very little time for me to pack on about 10lbs thanks to the lack of regular activity. Yes, of course I get up and walk around the office. I take little trips to visit folks, deliver things to other department, and get a drink, but

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience...not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)Today's quote in my little quote widget thingy was yet again filled with words of wisdom very applicable to my current situation. "Changes must come from the inability to live otherwise..."

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I've been a little preoccupied for the past 5 weeks, thus no updates to the blog (aside from the repost when MJ went on to the great big stage in the sky). Here's a quick breakdown of what's been going on.June 18th, 2009 - Brinley Nicole Snyder finally decided to join us. Can I tell you how happy I was to have that be over with? I don't think there are words to describe my elation. As I've

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In lieu of the recent passing of Michael Jackson I'm reposting a blog I wrote well over a year ago about how fond I am of his music.Monday, February 11, 2008 Memories and Michael JacksonDo you ever forget how much you loved Michael Jackson? No, not recently loved him, but in like 1st grade loved him. When I was in 1st grade, along with many of you - Michael Jackson was da bomb. He was the

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The longest day must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)So I have this little quote widget on my blog (you've probably noticed this already), and it's there as much for me as anyone else. I particularly liked today's quote because it seemed so very applicable to the agony that is my sitting and waiting. To quote about a bazillion other

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Ages ago (like well over a year) we discovered that our bathroom sink was rusted. Not just a little bit rusted, but rusted clear through. In the sink's defense, it is probably the original sink installed in the house in 1973. We discovered the leak while replacing the faucet which also seemed to be the original from 1973 (it too was leaking). Not wanting to get in to anything too massive

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Just when I think things are fine and dandy I find myself right in the middle of numerous situations involving incredibly stupid people. If it was just a single incident I would probably not get all bent out of shape. I'd chalk it up to general stupidity and move along. Unfortunately these things come in waves, and before I know it there's just stupid person after stupid person beating down my

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Ok, so we're looking about a 3-4 more weeks of this craziness.... max! This is a good thing. I am sooooooooo ready for this nonsense to be over and feel like an actual human being again. I cannot wait to sit down, stand up, or, God forbid, lie down without it being excruciatingly painful in a variety of ways. More than that - I can't wait for the weight loss to begin. I've come to find that

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So, if you know me pretty well you're undoubtedly aware that I have a less than desirable relationship with my mom. It's been this way since I was a little kid, and unfortunately has only gotten worse over the years. I've grown and learned and changed as much as one person normally does over the course of 25 years, but it seems that no matter what I do I am always at odds with my mom. A little

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I'm pretty committed to my rugby team. They're a good group to work with and generally there aren't any problems to speak of. What I particularly dislike about the job is that it starts in January and goes till May (June if you count our end of year alumni match and picnic). As you might imagine those January and February games are cold.... and I mean cold. I really have no clue how I

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Believe it or not, we actually attend church.... every once in awhile anyway. I'd like to say we're regular Sunday morning folks, but half the time I am working on Sunday and need to be out the door by noon, and the other half of the time I've got to drag my other two cohorts behind me (kicking and screaming the whole way). Regardless of these factors, we've had a hard time with church ever

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-70545210106198715172009-02-02T09:09:00.002-05:002009-02-02T09:31:09.949-05:00

Last week we headed over to Ultrasound Associates for what I like to refer to as the "half-way" ultrasound. The entire purpose of this trip is to see that all your kid's parts are accounted for and developing as they should (it's bad when they're missing things like a spleen, or a brain, or what have you). At this point, if they find something wrong, they can take the necessary steps to try and

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-69096067431172034002009-01-18T21:19:00.002-05:002009-01-18T21:42:08.774-05:00

Today officially kicked off the return of rugby season (for me anyway - I believe the team has been practicing for a couple of weeks now). As you might imagine, it's freaking cold here. We had a high of 34 today, so I did my best to prepare for the weather. I found out the hard way last year that even when conditions seem bearable here in Fairfax, it's like the Arctic Circle in Chevy Chase (

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Well, since it's customary to actually tell people this kind of stuff, I guess this is as good a place as any to do so. Despite my best laid plans to avoid such an event, it seems that I now have a bun in the oven. No, it's not planned. I'm not a "kid" planner cause I'm entirely too consumed with what could go wrong with said kid. Even though lengthy discussions were had in regards to Joshua

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-22327811566661085942009-01-09T12:08:00.003-05:002009-01-09T12:17:18.553-05:00

When I'm doing mind numbing things like loading the dishwasher, or perusing the internet at my desk (because I'm procrastinating writing more content for my program's new website), or watching Josh play video games I often think of several things I could blog about. Most recently, I was downstairs at work, unloading and loading the dishwasher and I thought about how often I actually do this

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-80746775490858444862009-01-04T21:47:00.008-05:002009-01-04T22:09:26.487-05:00

Finally, the wedding day arrived! Not much to do early on except roll out of bed, find some food, and wait for my turn to get my hair done. Katie arranged for a couple of professionals to come and do everyone's hair and make-up (well, some hair and make-up). Jenny an Irene (friends of ours from back in the day) showed up and offered to make a Starbucks run, and Brad and Bekir took Josh to find

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-58107667674687629142009-01-04T21:31:00.002-05:002009-01-04T21:47:13.768-05:00

Yes, I fell off the blogging wagon for a bit. It's been a bit busy around here, but I'm committed to finishing this series... honest. Ok, so, as customary with weddings, we had a rehearsal and a rehearsal dinner. I got up that morning still hacking from the night before and with about 50% of the voice I came to town with. This was not at all my idea of a good time, so after breakfast we headed

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-83712641298219653312008-12-17T21:25:00.005-05:002008-12-17T21:42:08.872-05:00

Once we got off the bus in NJ, we walked up the hill to Ipek's house where she was throwing a henna party for Katie. This is sort of the Turkish equivalent of a bachelorette party, only there aren't ever any strippers, or bar crawls. There's a little ceremony where the groom's family gives the bride to be gold pieces (which are as good as cash in hand) and everyone celebrates with a little henna

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-47457560309821451882008-12-17T21:06:00.005-05:002008-12-17T21:22:36.345-05:00

So last weekend was my sister's wedding. Like most weddings there were a few events leading up to the big day, so even though the actual to-do wasn't until Sunday evening, we headed up to NJ on Thursday afternoon. After a nearly 7 hour drive in the rain, we made it to Bridgewater, checked in to the hotel and crashed. The 6:30am wake-up call came rather early (with it being 6:30am and all), but

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-74132534762137085712008-12-05T18:20:00.000-05:002008-12-05T18:31:22.478-05:00

I'm on my last trip of the fall travel season, and frankly I'm rather disappointed. The people are great, I've got a bay front room and have had fun thus far. The major issue here is the freakin' weather. I picked this trip almost exclusively for the nice weather potential. Seriously, who doesn't want to go to Corpus Christi in December? It's all nice and warm and sunny.... or not. No, it

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-75733821005516833472008-12-01T11:16:00.003-05:002008-12-01T11:46:01.265-05:00

I rather enjoy social networking sites - of any sort really. For some it's a blog community (sorta like this), for others it's Facebook or MySpace, and for other's it's a message board of some sort. All of these things are nifty ways for folks to keep in touch and I really enjoy reading up on everyone's lives and news. This brings me to my current state of reading up on everyone's Thanksgiving

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-75983720053527076542008-11-25T08:27:00.002-05:002008-11-25T08:42:29.199-05:00

I haven't been sick in about two years. Once upon a time, when I worked at the oh so craptastic law job, I got sick twice, in the whole horrific two months I worked there. The sickness only compounded the misery that was working there. Fast forward out of that dark and dreary time to my current job, which is generally sunny and fun. Even though travel is often the culprit for illness (

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-67929683674111032442008-11-21T20:08:00.003-05:002008-11-21T20:24:16.928-05:00

So, I love vampires. If you knew me in college, you might know this already (though that really depends on what point in college you know me from). I have no idea where the love came from, or when it started, but it's been there for quite some time and was only enhanced by books and movies like Interview with the Vampire and Blade. I have zero desire to suck blood from anyone or anything, nor

Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774011529252817984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8190185620980224034.post-65402634039668538692008-11-21T19:46:00.002-05:002008-11-21T20:06:23.940-05:00

So, you might have noticed that I haven't written a blog in like.... well, forever. It's a busy time with work, and blogging is WAY on the back burner (cause sleep is what I choose to do with any free time I might come across). Anywho, I've got a whopping 2 week break between trips, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to catch up a bit on where I've been, what I've seen and whatever else I

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