It's only June first, and my month is already pretty much full. How does this happen?

This weekend: heading down to NYC with a friend to the Met. We're specifically planning on seeing this exhibit, and I'm sure we'll look at a few others. There will also be shopping and random wandering and people watching ( Read more... )

As of today, I've gotten 3/4ths of my self-selected gifts from my Dad and my step-mom Nancy*:

Sharpe's Rifles for my Kindle
Cordials from Your Kitchen for my homemade alcohol needs
and
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills for my homemade everything else needs ( Read more... )

Body: Not good. I had a gallbladder attack at around 6 this morning, and while it wasn't to bad itself (compared with some of the other ones), the associated back pain was pretty bad. I ended up having to take one of my Serious Pain Pills, which knock me on my ass for hours. I didn't make it into work this morning, and I'm still feeling wobbly ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my Gramma Beard's 83rd birthday. She doesn't read my LJ, but I still want to wish her a happy birthday and a good year and many more.

A picture my step-mother took at Gramma's birthday dinner.

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Three birthdays today!

Happy birthday to my Dad, my brother Jon, and to stonetimber.

Dad & Jon, I figure you're both going to be busy tonight, so I'll probably try to call each of you sometime this weekend.

We are home ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to:

My Dad

My brother Jon

and,
stonetimber

The Lansing State Journal just endorsed Dad!

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My father is running for East Lansing City Council! This is the (kinda bare bones) website that my fiance put together for him: http://www.kevinbeard.org/

Check it out, and if you live in EL and like what he has to say, vote for him.