Our week in DFW was full of fun (well, for one of us, at least.) Sunday-drive up. We got a late start, but got there just fine. The hotel next to Emil’s class building was really nice. The only thing we missed was a mini-fridge. Monday-While Emil had his first day of class, complete with [...]
my dear friends, thank you ten fold for your faith in me and my work and your love and devotion to me as a person
America’s Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror by Paul J. Springer
Some of our kindred spirits now live in the Deep South and threw a Hallowe’en party this year. Since I knew they would want a keg of Shiner, I asked about getting it, there. Funny you should ask about the Shiner…Shiner ships here, so we get bottles easily, but this whole area…is weird about draft [...]
We love to “adventure” together. Any time we have to go somewhere new, we make a game of it. Thanks to Emil, we have always taken the odd routes. Thanks to VZ Navigator (a GPS navigation system built into our Verizon phones), we can wander off any beaten path and still find our way. We [...]
OK, seriously, how do good friends know just what you need and just when you need it? Jordan, Leanne, JJ/Becky, and even Louie (whom I’m certain does not read our blog) have all been completely and totally there for me today while I’m in that frustrated panic to get everything ready for my first year [...]
Beth and I have a new “thing” that I hope will become a whole/real tradition (we’ve already met the Aggie definition of a tradition: it’s happened twice!). Last night, we had a Wine for Whine session where we each had wine while we whined about the crap that is part of our lives right now. [...]
Valvet is acclimating nicely. Yay for our reptile family! She is the “beta” member of our turtle family, which Turtleor has made clear with the flapping of her front paws/claws (Patty R., help me out here! What are turtle’s feet called? fins? webs?). Early on, Valvet seems to be the smarter/faster turtle. Like most “second” [...]
Now let me start this by saying it is not foolproof. After all, it’s not exactly how Emil and I found one another. However, in our observations, it has a pretty successful rate of return. There are two “suggestions” for finding your soulmate. Again, since they aren’t foolproof, “rules” would be too strong of a [...]
After everything was ready for the Condo Warming party on Saturday, Leanne took us to the Dallas Aquarium. We’d only been one other time (with Diane and Jonathan when they still lived in the town she liked to call “Louisville”). It was super-crowded and full of children whose adults don’t parent them, but we still [...]
