Continued- Pictures of LOVE

So let’s continue…(Sorry about the delay)

Aunt Annie & Aunt Katie, fell in Love too…

But Uncle Tim was the one who wasn't sure what to do…

But within a few short days,
they both discovered one another’s like ways…

And Aunt Melissa made sure to snuggle her so tight,
keeping her warm in the middle of the night…

While Uncle Nick in Chicago, thought the whole thing was nothing but Trouble,
for he believed true LOVE was seeing Double…

Soon enough, this LOVE had him too…
wrapped around his lil’ finger with a awww and a cooo!

STAY TUNED…there is more to come!

Chicago Ramblings - Snowed in Edition

I suppose I could try to clear that car, attempt to navigate the unplowed neighborhood streets, then attempt street parking near the gym - a near impossible, and sometimes dangerous task (see: here, towards the bottom), but I've decided to blog instead and I stand by my decision.

I realize I missed my weekly post last week, but I was having issues with signing onto my account and quite frankly I'm pretty sure I have an exponential amount of posts compared to all of you save dad so Im not that worried about it. On with the post. First off, congrats to Katie for her new internship (assuming it was finalized). and nice pictures of the schmoops and Grace - she has to be crawling by now right???

Things in Chicago have been subdued lately what with the Bears loss and God's response to said loss with shitty weather for the last two weeks. Davis is currently in Florida with his parents, so I have the place to myself all week and weekend, which is nice. I won't be doing much - I start training to teach LSAT classes this weekend so at least I'll have a paycheck coming in pretty soon. Other than that, things are very much the same in these parts. I was talked into joining a Monday night euchre league at a bar and so far we've haven't been that successful, but watching how serious some teams (always older, and usually male/female couples) take the five games we play each night has been worth the price of admission. I shit you not - one guy plays with his IPOD and earphones in the whole time and won't talk to anyone like he's playing poker. Other than that, nothing real special to report on. With the coaxing of mom, I looked into volunteering for Obama's campaign but apparently they only want my money and not my time, which I explained was the opposite of what I had, to no avail.

Looking forward, as always to St. Patty's day coming up and hoping to see one if not two of my brothers visit over that weekend - im sure the vice president of sales can find a way to come to Chicago for a weekend right? Thats it for me...hope to see some more blogs on here soon.

As always - my recommendations:

Listen: Album: All the Stars and Boulevards, by: Augustana. Like most music for me, it takes one good song to get you to notice a new band, and the song "Boston" on this album was that one for me. Middle of the road rock stuff, mainstream and sometimes a little moody, not the best thing ever, but check it out you might like it.

Read: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Well I can't really call it an "expansion of horizons" if I don't read things I never thought I would. This is case in point number 1 - a love story that comes with its own set of book club questions in the back. And honestly, it was a good book. I think I may be biased because it is set in Chicago and about a guy and girl that around my age now for the majority of the book - so I knew all the references they made to Chicago (which were alot). Plus the premise takes it out of the traditional romantic crap and makes it interesting. As you might have guessed from the title - the book is about a man who can travel back and forth in time - but he can't control it, and doesn't know when it is going to happen. and somehow the author's explanation is believable so its not an issue.

Watch: I can't say for sure whether this is a new phenomenon or not - but apparently all TV seasons are now separated in half. With the 2nd half of the main shows having started that's all I've really been watching so I'll just give you a quick list of what I watch: Heroes, Studio 60, 24, The Unit, Friday Night Lights, Lost, Scrubs, and The Office - and I accidently watched Survivor last week and was intrigued so I may have to find time for it. Also, if you want a recommendation at the family house - it would be watch anything on PBS or Discovery HD. I have more than once turned on Discovery HD to find a show about Antartica and then came to about 2 hours later. Its great stuff. One last HD tip: there is (at least here) an HBO HD channel that shows the same thing the normal HBO channel does but in HD. I thought there was no difference but there is so keep that in mind while watching HBO movies and such.

Stupid Cupid

Happy Valentine's day to everyone. In particular let me just remind everyone how lucky we are the I am as wise as I am. I haven't made that many good decisions in my life in fact there is reasonable doubt surrounding most of my life decisions but we all have got to be good at something and my talent clearly lies in picking wives and making babies. This may sound indelicate to you but look at the facts, I have the greatest wife and thereby have given you the greatest mother ever. Pretty good stuff if I do say so myself.

So here is to my beautiful wife and my wonderful kids. Thanks for my great life.

DAD
(my typical signoff would be redundant)

bad blog

I must apologize for yesterday's posting. I was rushed and didn't include all the necessary words. I will do better in the future.

dad

Another Monday

I am sorry for you Bears Nick, they did not play very well however. Just like with the Cubs, there is always next year.

I do love your tribute to the Bears but I'm not sure I would feel bolstered by "darkdemonrocker" being a big fan of yours.

Your book recommendation is very good, fyi, the boy in that book has autism, as does the son of the author.

Our (I originally typed "my") new tv is awesome, although I would have thougt that PS2 would have looked better on it. Golf is probably the best except the best channel in the world, Discovery HD.

We like the pictures of the family Paul, it really ligitamizes how much guys pose.

As some of you know I am currently reading a book that was written by a patient and set in Omaha. It is interesting, knowing the author, but it isn't a great book.

As we push toward spring, two things are important. One, I get my ass moving and drop some weight. Two, I get my golf swing going. I must say I am very excited about getting to play more this year.

Off I go, trying out new sign off line, getting crap for the old one, here we go,
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I love you all more today than yesterday. Bite me!

Chicago Ramblings XLI Edition

Well, here we are, 2 days before the Bears win SUPER BOWL XLI and 3 days before the city of Chicago becomes less productive than the employees of Dunder Miflin - Scranton Branch. I really don't have to much to say because the entire week has consisted of mass emails praising the bears and denouncing the colts - to put it nicely. As mentioned, me and my friends will be going to a bar on Clark Street in the hopes of being at one of many ground zeros should the Bears take the Horse Shoe off of the Colts helmet and insert it up their ... well this is a family blog but you get the idea. For those of you that don't know, I sent home a data DVD with all of my IPOD songs which should allow you to add them to your own IPODS without any problem. There are also all of the scans of the pictures I used for the other DVD should you have any desire to use them. In other non-superbowl news - I recently found out the hard that running a mile on the track is not the same as the treadmill. Also, no one told me that the Shamrock Shuffle was the country's only major 8K (5 miles) and not a regular 5K(3 miles). Things are going to get interesting on the training front. Sorry for the brief post but something is better than nothing (ahem Annie, Mom, Tim, Melissa, Katie).

Read: Rule #1 if you are trying to read a book a week - don't read one written in 400 year old prose or else you end up reading things like "But as for you ye vile and worthless rabble, I utterly despise ye! Come on, molest me as far as ye are able, for quickly shall you receive the reward of your folly and ignorance." Remarkable, yes, good reading on the el, no. Hence, for the sake of full disclosure - last week's book Don Quixote was put on the back burner. So I'll give you two for this week that have already been disposed of:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. A really interesting and fast-read book. If you have ever wanted to read a book through the eyes of a 15 year old mentally disabled (but not retarded) kid who's trying to solve a mystery, then pick this bad boy up. Don't be intimidated by the 233 chapters - they are numbered in sequential prime numbers. Intrigued yet?

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. So far I'm trying to read old classics and new highly touted books. This just happens to be one of the classics I've never read before.

And for a bonus read...I invite you all to read the comments under the video I posted on YouTube. Apparently I am the shit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp3laY3KuVg

Watch: What Else - Super Bowl XLI. (sorry for the cop out but this is the only thing thats been on my mind lately)

Listen: Once again, the format of the Family Blog restricts me from recommending what I've been currently listening to (downloading for work out songs). So I'll give you one of the catchiest little ditties I've come across in awhile - sadly this lands mostly in the Annie-Katie demographic and seeing as they are blogophobic someone will have to share this with them.

"Here, In Your Arms" by Hellogoodbye

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