Yep, we are going to Sicily this coming week. GF is sick with anticipation. It's her first trip abroad (beyond North America). I am cursing myself for not finishing the Italian course (I did two-thirds of it before we had the car fixed and didn't have the CD player for 2+ weeks). Oh, well ( Read more... )

(ASIDE to my usual flist readership: I posted this on another forum where it may not live for long. I'm reposting it here ( Read more... )

Short explanation: This was posted as a comment on not spam up his comments that it be posted to our own LJs. Well... it was late... and I didn't read that right (until later--that's my story and I'm sticking to it). So here you go: A list of guilty pleasures ( Read more... )

We had a really nice weekend. In thinking about it, I realized that our life here really does represent a shift in how we are in the world.
One of the most psychologically wearying things about living in the Big City was the feeling that there was always something there wasn't enough time for (pls pardon the sentence structure--it's early).  I don't ( Read more... )

cmdrbev made this, a Christmas gift to us from her and her honey...


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That 2005 went by in a blur. It's hard to believe it's already over. This month marks 3 years w/ gf. We're amazed. Seems like yesterday, still seems new. She's a prince. The house came along; it almost looks like it's "finished" after 20 years! Yes, this month also marks the beginning of my 21st year in this house. I have never lived anyplace ( Read more... )

We had a very busy weekend, with not one, but TWO parties on the other side of the Big Water. ( ...more )

When will people learn: it really is a small world (the gay community). You don't go around trashing one set of "friends" to another set of "friends"--especially not in cyberspace. As an old grumpy butch (now dead and gone) used to say: "there really are only a thousand of us and we all know each other."

( This weekend has been all about the food )

Yesterday didn't go completely according to plan. Thanks to the exertions of Saturday, I overslept and, consequently, didn't sing at all in the morning. I may end up not singing the Requium on the 20th simply because I've missed more rehearsal time than I am comfortable missing and that's the weekend before the Thanksgiving rush sets in ( Read more... )