Dad's spending the night at the hospital tonight ( Read more... )

It was another lovely weekend.

We started out Friday evening with the final show in this season's MPR Wits Series. The guests were Neil Gaiman and Josh Ritter. Here is a link to the livestream they filmed. Because Mr. Gaiman is awesome, this show was sold out, and because it was general admission, people were lining up early to get in. Since they ( Read more... )

I need a vacation! Instead, I'm going to the cabin w/the family. LOL ( Read more... )

I hope all of you in America had a fabulous thanksgiving, and everyone in the rest of the world had a fabulous day as well!

hellbob & I did our traditional early afternoon dinner at my aunt's house with a small chunk of the family (only about 25 of us). After stuffing ourselves silly on turkey, stuffing, potatoes, corn, salad, gravy, wine, etc we avoided ( Read more... )

I decided that I don't need to be sending my family to my LiveJournal to read about the Antarctica contest, so I made a blog for it. I'll also be linking it in my contest entry. I'm not sure how much I will cross post between the two, but I'll try to put links her when I've got new stuff there ( Read more... )

One of the things I just love about my iPhone is having access to Twitter all the time now, and not just when I'm at my computer. I also love the option to use TwitPic to link to pictures I've taken with my phoneI was over at my parents house tonight to have my dad help me build a test tube holder for my school project. While we were working I was ( Read more... )

Hi LJ Peeps!

I haven't really posted much of substance lately, have I?

So, there was this holiday weekend we just had... Hope all yours were good.

On Thursday hellbob & I headed over to my aunt's house for the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Lots & lots of delicious food. Followed by the traditional game of Trivial Pursuit. Rather than Aunts vs. ( Read more... )

As we were eating dinner Friday night, I asked my cousin & his wife, "So, is Kathy just slurring more now that she's getting older, or is she half in the bag ( Read more... )

So, did y'all miss me?
You did notice that I was gone all weekend, right? RIGHT?!?!?

Well, this last weekend was the annual "kids weekend" at my parents' cabin.

And by cabin I mean 3 bedroom, 2-story plus finished basement lake home. With no air-conditioning. Boy was that nice the year it was 150º with 300% humidity ( Read more... )

OK, so clan Foley has departed and I caught up on reading LJ. It was at skip 225! After only 2 weekend days! Of course, two of you on the flist were posting blogathon posts ( Read more... )