I don’t like writing random posts, but today it’s necessary. I am extremely displeased with our weather up here. Storm after storm is hitting NJ and PA and missing us. The latest storm brought my parents 2 feet of snow, and us, just hurricane-force winds and rain. BOOORRRIIING. On the flip side, NH is in…
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J is ever so proud of Mr. McKinley and has a new goal in mind. He wants to train him to use the toilet to throw up. You see, cleaning up the throw up—much like cleaning the litter box—is just about the only source of tension in our house. It’s part of the reason we…
DetailsAs I’ve mentioned before, J & I don’t frequent the movie theater. But we made plans to go Saturday and see Avatar in the IMAX theater. We figured that it may be a likely Oscar winner, which means we have to watch it eventually to complete our goal of watching all the Best Pictures, and…
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I have to profess my love to the Sonicare toothbrush.* I had a wonderful experience at the dentist today. This is not right. I never have anything less than a terrible experience at the dentist. Hating the dentist all started when I was young. For some reason, I just loathed going to the dentist. I…
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I’ve returned from my long-awaited and snow-delayed weekend in Philly and it was divine. Seriously, what’s better than girl time and good food? I was visiting my college roommates—Chile and Charlotte—and 2 other friends from college—theChief and RedJeepTrvlr—with whom I worked on the newspaper. I stayed at Charlotte’s house. Some would say I picked the…
DetailsJ and I have been making our way through the list of Academy Award Best Picture winners, a goal we set in 2008, but thought would take us through our retirement. Instead, we may actually finish by the end of 2010. We have never really been “movie” people, but watching these Oscar winners has been…
DetailsI’m blogging from NH and I’m not happy about it. I’m supposed to be in Philly having a girls’ weekend that took months of planning. Mother Nature had other plans. Not only is she currently dumping 2 feet of snow on the Philly area, she is giving us not one inch. What the great googly…
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Last night, J and I went with some friends to the Banff Mountain Film Festival Tour that came through NH. These are not your regular films; these are for adrenaline junkies. We got to see a sampling of 8 films from the actual festival and they all involved mountain sports. I like to think of…
DetailsLost is driving me bonkers. It’s one of the few TV shows I’ve stayed loyal to through its 5+ years of airtime. And we have a love-hate relationship. At first, I wasn’t certain I liked it, but J did and I watched on. Then I was truly addicted. I remember episodes when I was hanging…
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Shiver me buccaneers, J & I had a weekend full of pirates and cannons in Tampa. I’m not sure why anyone would want to play around with pirates or the idea of pirating, but everyone in Tampa does. At least once a year they do. This weekend was the annual Gasparilla Invasion, or re-enacting an…
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This is our soccer record for the first winter session, which ended last night. I couldn’t be prouder! We’ve been playing with the same team for over a year now and we’ve really gotten our sh%& together. We still have a lot of players come and go each session, but there’s about 6 of us…
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I just realized that not only did 2009 hand off the torch to 2010, but that also means another decade is gone! I decided to be silly and do a review of the last decade, complete with pictures. And then it practically took me the whole new decade to gather the pictures and upload and…
DetailsNot that we were going for a record or anything, but J and I saw no movies at the theater in 2009. In fact, the last movie we saw in a theater was Sex in the City in May 2008 (a reminder of how awesome J is for taking me to such a chick flick).…
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Last week, J passed a test and became a certified recreation director.Not sure what that really means, but he studied really hard for the test. It seems being “certified” in your field is the new Master’s. I’m only two credits away from being certified as a medical writer, but I’m not holding my breath because…
DetailsHas anyone jumped on the Zumba bandwagon? As usual, I’m late. My kickboxing instructor convinced me to give it a try. As uncoordinated as I am, I’ve been doing okay with kickboxing and ballroom/latin dancing with J, so I thought how bad could it be? Plus, a lot of my friends have raved about it.…
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This is a yurt. This is the most luxurious form of camping we have ever done. But it works well for winter camping and we are hooked. Our families were extremely worried when we told them we were skiing to a yurt to stay for 4 days and would not have cell service. I’m not…
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Well, friends, you didn’t beat last year’s record of 12 baby boys born, but you did keep busy. This year, our friends produced 10 bouncing babies—5 boys, 5 girls. Next year, there’s already 5 pregnancies announced. The adults are starting to be outnumbered!!! I present to you “the babes of oh nine.” Don’t you think…
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We’re back in New Hampshire after a long 9 days and many miles in Jersey!