I don't remember when exactly I become curious about the origins of my name but one day as a youngling, I brooch the subject with my parents. If you haven't noticed by now my siblings and I share the same initials, KJR and CJR. In keeping with the girls being "K", my dad lets me in on the secret that he wanted to name me Krista but mom didn't go ( Read more... )

Shannon leaves me a comment on Facebook about the music video BLOG and gets me reminiscing about the past. She says she never can get through We Didn't Start The Fire without messing up a lyric. Being the HUGE Billy fan that I am, I pride myself on knowing all the lyrics to all the songs and memorizing the order of all his songs on each of his ( Read more... )

Dad and I are immersed in such a serious conversation that neither of us has noticed that I followed him to the ATM. Usually I hang back and give him space but right now my mouth is moving a mile a minute and dad really needs to take an obscene amount of money out of his account. Well, it looks obscene to me and it's probably just pocket change but ( Read more... )

I'm going on my seventh year of riding the LIRR daily. Sure there was a year of not doing it because I was at Genesis and also the few months when dad fired me from the Surge, but basically it's been seven years of commuting. The first year of commuting is done by myself but the second year I join my dad on the Port Jeff line every morning at 720. ( Read more... )

It gets to a point for Steve that he becomes Fullmetal-ed out and needs a new fix of manga. Where as I keep beating a dead horse, Steve will move on. He chooses Death Note (written by Tsugumi Ohba, drawn by Takeshi Obata) and immediately he gets sucked into the intense story. So much so that he completely ignores me for two weeks until he reaches ( Read more... )

There's one thing us Raab children have learned over the years...never tell mom what you like.

Once mom finds out what favorite cereal you frequently eat, she'll buy so much of it that you'll gag upon mention of it. Dad once said, "You like that cereal? Mom is going to call Post and they are just going to come with a truckload and dump it on the ( Read more... )

I have called out sick today. As much as I didn't want to waste a day and go through the same spiel over the phone with dad ("If there are any repeats to be pulled I can do it tomorrow or Cassandra can call me from her phone and I'll talk her through it other than that, no one should be in my room because I have charts everywhere. I was moving ( Read more... )

Now that I at least have Kim's attention...

I go to the Feast of San Gennaro with dad and Steve last night and of course eat and eat and eat. Then we eat some more. Kind of like all the other times I go to The Feast. And like every time, in between eating, we go to the church to pay our respects ( Read more... )

It's done. It no longer belongs to the Raabs ( Read more... )

My parents have always been big fans of the 7 to 8 pm television time slot for as long as I can remember. First Jeopardy then Wheel Of Fortune. And if dad happened to be running late, mom would tape it and wait until he arrived home. It's not like they would compete with each other, it's just that they really enjoy solving puzzles together and try ( Read more... )