So I spent nearly $200 on Halloween decorations. I have a killer multimedia setup in the ‘kids room’ that displays spooky heads that look like they’re floating in mid-air. I have scary music piping out through the windows in the front of the house. I have strobe lights. I’m wearing a [...]

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I love living in central Texas. Tomorrow brings November. I’ve been tooling around the yard wearing shorts and flip flops. No shirt. It’s warm - it’s awesome. Luckily we endure only a couple months of actual cold weather.
I do not love daylight savings time. We rolled the clocks back [...]

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Mom and Dad left on Sunday evening after I we ate heaping plates of country ribs, sauteed pototoes and pinto beans. Mom made (and left half of) another awesome dewberry cobbler.
So far this week has been an extension of the crappy last one. The thorn in my side is the company’s website hosting [...]

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I tested for the second star for my black belt this morning. My stomach still hurts from all the nervous activity in my gutty wut. I messed up one of my patterns but was able to cover it up pretty well. I’m half way to getting my second degree.
Mom and Dad were [...]

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We went to Garden Ridge and Spencer Gifts this evening. We spent a little more than we should have, but I have a feeling we’ll have the coolest Halloween house on the block. I’m all about gore and horror. We bought a severed head, strobe lights, black lights, fake blood, motion activated [...]

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I’ve heard and dispensed this advice: there is no good time to purchase a computer. A computer in antiquated by the time you get it home and out of the box. Elise bought my iBook a little over three weeks ago. Today Apple released the new 1.33 GHz iBook with a SuperDrive (CD/DVD [...]

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I’ve been iPodless for almost a week now. I called Apple last week. I finally got the box via DHL this morning. In the meantime, I had decided to take the iPod to the Apple store. After standing near the Genius Bar for almost an hour, my iPod was fixed by [...]

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I conked out on the couch last night. Elise stayed the night at my parents’ house after Christine’s baby shower. I tried to stay up and watch SNL. I woke up at 3 a.m., let the cat out and went to bed.
I woke up and started cooking dinner at 7:30 this morning. [...]

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I’m holding down the fort solo for the majority of the weekend. Elise went to work at 6 a.m. this morning then headed to Houston for Christine’s baby shower.
I got up around 8 and roamed about the house for a while. I then drove to the Apple store to scope things out. I [...]

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Elise and I were sitting on the couch tonight watching The Apprentice. The show ended and Elise asked asked “What was it that was supposed to piss George off?” I said “I don’t know”. She went on to remind me that at the end of last Thursday’s episode, the trailer told us [...]

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