Public Service Annoumcement
It's election day. I won't claim to be an analyst or expert, or to have any clue what today's outcome will mean for our country's future ( less than the Empassioned think and greater than zero, if experience serves). I will claim, however, to be an unyielding prick if I get wind of a political complaint from a registered voter who didn't vote. Not voting means you don't care - and you gave up caring until next election. Suck it up, take resposibility for your choice, and shut up about it until your next opportunity to vote.
Thanks.
Hedgehog of Doom
That's right, Alex was a hedgehog for Halloween. I tried to get Ben the Stormtrooper, but he ran off too fast...
Tweetaholic
- @grace134 amen
- @mommywantsvodka and some bleach
- @parenting_twins Ha! Me, a celebrity? I'm just a roadie on the Aunt Becky tour. And I fix the website sometimes.
- Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name...or, just go hide in the basement and play on the playstation.
- Just watched @mommywantsvodka put four boxes of uncrustables into our cart and exclaim: "Yay!" 'nuff said.
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Oldest + Youngest, Best Buds
Ben & Amelia, proving that a 7-year age gap is nothing when it comes to brothers & sisters & Playmobil..
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New York, New York
The last time I went to NYC, it was for a conference. I brought along
Becky and Ben, and they went off to visit friends while I went to listen
to people talk about some Compliance thing or another. I don’t remember
much of the conference, to be honest, but I DO remember ditching it one
afternoon to walk around Central Park, Ben happily chasing his “Pumball”
(a wadded up piece of paper — yeah, he’s always been this way). It feels like a lifetime ago. Now, we have too many kids to bring them along, so it’s just me. I’m
going to work, and it’s cold outside. Probably will be so busy that I
won’t even make it over to Central Park, much less to wander around it.
Will be wearing dress clothes, and sitting in meetings, and maybe
getting some of the locals to show me something interesting after work. I’m thrilled to be going again, though. There’s something about NYC that
feels really good to me; maybe it’s that it is unabashedly City, that
it’s such a hodgepodge of buildings and nooks and crannies and people.
Or maybe it’s the streets and bridges whose names are famous nationwide, thanks to
Sex and the City and countless other movies and shows: FDR Drive, Park
Avenue, the Jersey Turnpike, Brooklyn Bridge — as a visitor, there’s
great novelty in seeing that you’re riding on these streets that have
been mentioned a million times. I imagine it’s the same feeling Chicago
visitors get about Michigan Ave or Lake Shore Drive. So, this time I intend to breathe in as much as I can while rushing from
airport to office to hotel and back to office again, embedding another
fond memory into my cortex to tide me over until the next time I get to
visit, because while Chicago is my home, I will always love New York.Posted via email from dwink | Comment »
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