And, finally, my home for the evening ( Read more... )

The post-game festivities ( Read more... )

You know you're getting old when your parents are able to celebrate 50 years of anything. In mom's case, it was her 50th anniversary of her grammar school graduation. I hadn't heard anything about it until a week or so ago, when she mentioned she was taking this past Friday off and a few of her friends were planning on going to the reunion that ( Read more... )

It's my reunion year for college--15 years. It's also the time of year where I email birthday wishes to the one college friend I'm still in regular contact with; her birthday was last Monday. Since we normally get together to attend the Homecoming concert, I emailed her to ask if she was planning on attending any of the other festivities. Now ( Read more... )

Remember when I mentioned my high school reunion, how I wondered if I should go, and how the only things that interested me were the stuff that involved little kids ( Read more... )

I wasn't aware that anyone from my high school graduating class was interested in doing a 15-year reunion, especially considering nothing was done--that I know of--for our five-year reunion. Granted, most of my friends from high school aren't from my graduating class, and the ones that are didn't participate in what I think of as our ill-fated/ill ( Read more... )

Mom was surprisingly active this morning. She got up early to go to Weight Watchers, then stayed out to do a little shopping afterward. She came home with this cabbage soup kit but hadn't read the directions. No, mom, you can't just put all of it in a pot with water and boom! Soup. You have to saute some of the ingredients first and add 8 cups ( Read more... )

When I got home from my jaunts, I found information for NCC's Homecoming in my mailbox. It's my ten-year reunion from my first pass through college. Like with my high school stuff, though, I'm disappointed. The last college reunion took place at Lou Malnati's, a Chicago-area pizza joint - not super classy, but fairly innocuous. This time it's ( Read more... )

What does it mean when you dream about your 10-year high school reunion, only you've already been to it? And the reunion, in your dream, was way better and had more attendees? And that your *grandmother* was there, and she appeared to be having a better time than you? (For the record, she was playing some sort of trivia game with guys you never ( Read more... )

The other day I found a website that gives guitar and piano chords: looknohands.com. I am a horrible pianist, and my two years of lessons did not teach me, say, an Asus9 chord. I didn't learn all the odd chords I've ever come across there, but I now know more than I did ( Read more... )