Here’s wishing everyone the happiest and all the best the New Year has to offer. Your regularly scheduled blogging will resume next week. 🙂
Christmas 2008
No Static At All
Tonight, Lisa and I watched the 1978 movie FM on VH-1 Classic. This is a time capsule of the late 1970s, complete with feathered hair on the guys, perms on the women, and a plotline about Sticking It To The Man, ‘Cause He Just Doesn’t Get It. The movie centers around the operations at a …
Looking a Lot Like Christmas
We got a few inches of snow today, which makes it feel a lot like Christmas. All of our decorations are up, and we’ve dragged out the Dickens, as Tom Lehrer once sang. I also got out some of my old Dennis the Menace “Pocket Full of Fun” digests. The frame above comes from the …
Thanksgiving Weekend 2008 Recap
We had a very nice Thanksgiving weekend– it started with Craig and Megan’s visit Wednesday night as they were on their way down to Indiana. We broke open a Mommessin Beaujolais Nouveau, which was very nice despite the plastic bottle. 🙂 On Thursday we went to my parents’ house and enjoyed a great dinner including …
Beaujolais Nouveau 2008
This is our favorite time of year: cooler temperatures, colorful leaves all around, the harvest of the summer fills the larder (I’ve always wanted to use the word “larder”), and the festivities of the holidays are about to begin. Oh, and the week before Thanksgiving is when the Beaujolais Nouveau wines come out to play. …
First Snow 2008
We got our first few flakes the other night– a couple weeks earlier than last year. None of it really stuck, which was nice, but it’s just a sign of things to come… On another note, I heard from the VP of Operations of Biggby Coffee regarding the store in downtown Arlington Heights. He told …
Ready to Start Celebratin’
I’m going to buy The Wellington a “G” or two.
A Cake Rob Petrie Could Love
In the episode “The Lady and the Babysitter” of The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rob whines about how Laura made a delicious “milk cake” yet there’s no milk in the Petrie house. He could have been referring to the cake I’m talking about here. Yes, those are Hershey Bars laid across the top of the …
Happy Halloween!
This year’s pumpkins by (from left to right) Becca, Lisa, and Emma. We received no corporate sponsorship money. 🙂