Avoid Cutbacks at 852.

I have noticed the decline in the number of posts in the past few years at this revered sight. If you don't belive me look at the sidebar right now. Yes it says in 2006 we posted 110 times. In 2007 down to 76 times and this is just the 72nd post in 2008. Do we want someone to lose their job!!!!! Let's get posting people or there may be dire repercussions!


Love,
Dave

Genevieve Jumping at Thanksgiving

Geneveive, Jack, Eddie and I played tennis on our Wii at Club 852 for Thanksgiving. Notice Genevieve's feet...not on the floor.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to Lisle.
Eat your turkey in style!
Dave, Amy, Emma
Charlie, Lucy
All send you a smile :)

**Sung to the tune of "Happy Birthday to You"

slightly political (ok lots) but it affects me personally

To quote from an articulate and strong writer:

"But if an American citizen marries a foreign national of the same sex, then DOMA bars the INS from recognizing the marriage as a basis for granting immigration rights. As a result of DOMA, American citizens are put in the hideous predicament of having to choose either to (a) live apart from their spouse or (b) live outside their own country. The U.S. now stands virtually alone in the Western World in imposing such a cruel dilemma on its citizens (worse still, many U.S. citizens have same-sex spouses from countries where the U.S. citizen cannot live, due to lack of resources or opportunities or because that country also refuses to grant immigration rights to same-sex couples; in those cases, DOMA means that Americans are forced, with no choice, to live apart -- oceans apart -- from their spouse)."

Apparently this law might possibly be repealed in my lifetime, and I for one am in a state of shock. In a good way.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/06/doma/index.html

Sports prognostication that no one cares about.

Once each year, I like to post about sports stuff. So here are my Baseball playoff predictions for 2008.

National League:
Cubs beat Dodgers in 4
Phillies beat Brewers in 5

Cubs Beat Phillies in 6

American League

Red Sox beat Angels in 5
White Sox beat Rays in 5

White Sox beat Red Sox in 6

World Series

White Sox defeat Cubs in 6 games for second World Championship in 4 years.

44 the new 43

Hi. I promised a review of my 44th birthday gavanza. (There has been a gavanza shortage with all the economic turmoil the country has been through of late so there wasn't any extra gavanza.) So let me set the scene, It's September 22nd I am 43 and I fall asleep only to wake up the next day and find that I am now 44. I wake up to the hustle and bustle that is my children. They bring in a special giant birthday cookie with White Sox decorations. I open some presents and then, the unexpected happens.


Before I tell you what the unexpected was, I want to tell you what the expected was so the unexpected doesn't seem more expected. The expected was composed of Amy going to work, and me starting the school day.

So, the unexpected happens, A family of migratory woodchucks break into the house and steal Amy's laptop that she uses for school. Actually, while that is unexpected, it did not happen, and not only because Amy's laptop was at her school that morning. What actually happened is Amy announced that she was not going to work that day and going to New York to try to be a panelist on the T.V. version of Balderdash. Actually, that did not happen either, remember I said the unexpected happened, and I fully expect Amy to bolt to New York if ever a professional Balderdash position opens there. What really happened is this: Amy took the day off and we had a family outing.

The outing consisted soley of things that Amy thought I would enjoy. We started by going to the Little Red School House a nature preserve in South Suburban Chicago. We hiked some nature trails there and viewed thrit nature center. Afterwards, we went to the library near where we lived in Hickory Hills. We then went to a batting cage/Arcade near there and had 3,200 pounds of fun which by rounding was tons of fun. For Lunch we wnt to our second favorite restraunt from our Hickory Hills time(the first is The Pit) Pepes. We then went home and AMy gave me another gift: some time alone. She took everyone to Charlie's football practice and I did some bicycling. After the kids went to bed we played some cards. All in all I got to spend my birthday doing many of my favorite things with my favorite people.

Thanks Amy!

Ooops!!

I didn't realize that the last two posts that I did were under Dave's name. How very odd, I know. The management reserves the right to blah blah blah, nevermind.

Happy Birthday Dave!!

The new face of 44

Are these two girls related??

At The Park

Danny and I took the Corkery youngins to the park. I decided to get on the tire swing...

Some of Becca's Wedding Pictures

The sand ceremony



Becca's speech and Travis saying, "Thanks for coming."


Cousin Phil and his girlfriend Jenna



Andersons...

all of that hidden potential on yr birthday

If you were born on this day, you too might be able to grow a blue mustache (as opposed to blue beard), sprout Martian attenae to communicate with the your fellow beings who are currently investigating Las Vegas and Arizona, and wear your heart on your sleeve....arm. Yeah, your arm sleeve. And cut your cheek while trying to lick the frosting from your cake.

Happy Birthday Amy!

Brace Face

The Old Switcheroo.

Hey there cats, kittens, other assorted felines, and non-felines. I have a general announcement.
Amy and I are switching roles. I am now the neat orderly one who writes down the first thing that comes to my head in Balderdash, and Amy is well, rather scary.

Actually Amy joins the workforce next month and I become the Education Czar of 1151 Chippewa. Say it with me: transition. We are all excited about the change and I will learn how to be a more frequent user of this thing called a computer.

Eyes to the Skies 2008

The fireworks finale at the Lisle Eyes to the Skies festival July 4th, 2008

Polar Bear Follies at the Zoo

Other Video Mentioned On Donn's Blog

Video that Mike Mentioned on Donn's Blog

will someone please wash her feet?

thank you.

signed,
campfire girl

Many Kids

LuLu and Genevieve

Charlie rides!

Video

Video

Carnival Pictures

For Sheila...

Aspiring Artist, CF Roller

Genevieve's First Communion

I'm sure Sara and Eddie and B have better pictures than this, but here ya go...

Spam? Spam? Spam?

Blogger says that it thinks my Story of Donn blog is spam, so I told them that it isn't, but it says that it may take up to 4 business days to start working. I don't know who else will read this, but I can't post on it any-freaking-more. I'm not sure what to do about it just yet.

Emma's getting braces

Can you see why?

Sleepy Time

"Lucy, wanna take a nap?"
"No."
"Lucy, wanna take a nap?"
"No."
"Lucy, wanna lie down?"
"zzzzzzzzz"

because I can

I am in a mood, but am listening to a song by the Blue Nile, a band from Scotland with a lead singer who kind of mumbles his words. Just looked up the lyrics, and they're better than I heard.

_________________________________________

Angels walking in the starlight
People gather at the roadside
I am willing to be with you
Tell me nothing ever leaves you

Love come down
I watched it fall from the sky
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm laughing
The world upon my shoulders
Somehow we gotta march together
A poet sat at his typewriter
We try to live, we try to live

Love came down
I watched it fall from the sky
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Are you almost ready
To come here with me
Is this my lucky day

I was always ready
To be there with you
To going the same way

And the radio plays
Out in the alley way
It's a love song
Yeah, and so tonight
Lovers walking down the highway
In the hope of
Crying to the streetlights, yeah

Love come down
I want you to fall from the sky
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

please please please please

We have submitted our Prof Blue video, pod 1, to some online film festival. Can you guys please click here to register for free, view the video and give it a thumbs up? We have 9 more days to get good ratings, and then can get a small bit of prize money which we are in dire need of for our participating in the Cambridge Science Festival.

Please go here:
http://www.earthspiritlove.com/users/register

Our video is located here:
http://www.earthspiritlove.com/videos/preview/182.

Please tell all of your friends and plant life about this too....spread the word!

Many thanks,
Professor Cordon Bleu

try this

Here's another David Sedaris reading. I guess the Easter tale was taken off.

I need some schooling

I'm going to have to spend the next month watching School House Rock since I didn't do too well on the History Test. I wonder how Emma would do on that test. Amy, do you guys go over history a lot? I know she knows the state capitals and a lot of reading and math.

Happy Easter

Warning: some swear words emitted.

Double warning: guffaws emitting.

Other factoids

Other Abba things you may have not known.

1) Frida's father was a Nazi who, as part of an official Nazi program, impregnated a young gal in Norway where he was stationed. Frida believed her father to be dead, but a relative of the Nazi (an ABBA fan) recognized the name of the father and matched up the dates that the relative was in Norway, and coordinated a meeting between Frida and father sometime in the '80s.

2) Frida's daughter married an American from (I think) Massachusetts and died in a car accident a year or two before her husband to the count died. Word was out that she was considering making another album after her fantastic Djupa Andetag, but after their deaths, she decided not to.

2B) Frida is officially a princess, having married Ruzzo Ruess, the aforementioned guy. I thought he was a count, but if one becomes a princess by marriage, then the marry-e has to be a prince, right?

3) Agnetha had an affair with a Dutch man who moved to Sweden to pursue her. She broke it off with him after a time and he began stalking her to the point where she had to get a restraining order against him. He persisted. The Swedish police broke into his house and discovered letters to her and from her, and some weird things like two box turtles, a box of saltines and some beer. Otherwise the house was unfurnished. He was deported. She had to go to court. She was very embarrassed. She thinks she is normal.

4) Bjorn's wife Lena, who looks so much like Agnetha, has a terminal illness.

5) Benny Andersson's son, the son with Mona who replaced Frida and thereby caused the excellent but tragic album "I Know There's Something Going On" to be made, this son is a musician also. Not a very good one.

Some Rollers, a year ago

Almost Easter, but well...not quite SPRING

So long, non-friend

Ok, so I admit it. I didn't realize there was a 5th person behind the whole sound of ABBA. I'm sure this is old hat to Sheila, but Danny informed me of this news:

Ex-ABBA drummer found dead at home
2 days ago
A former drummer for the Swedish pop band ABBA has been found dead in the garden of his house on the island of Majorca.
Ola Brunkert, 62, is believed to have been the only session musician to have appeared on all the group's recordings.
A police spokeswoman said an autopsy was being carried out but investigations indicated the death was an accident and no foul play is suspected.
She said a neighbour found Mr Brunkert's body on Sunday in the garden of his house in the town of Arta.
Police believe he fell and cut his neck indoors. He then apparently tried to leave the house to seek help but collapsed in the garden.

I promise winter year-round if elected

I'm Tookie Took, and I approve of this message.

Thanks Aunt Sheila!

How did you know the color of toothbrushes we had?

The Infamous South Side Irish Parade

This quote was actually in the paper, and the picutre is just one that Megan took. Yes, we look cold because we were cold.

Don't come to South Side, Tinley Parkers

I noticed that most of the felony arrests at the South Side parade were people from Tinley Park. Doesn't Tinley have its own Irish Parade? Maybe those little punks should stay home and trash their own town!

Midlothian

the view from my window

Maybe I need to get glasses, because right this minute I think I'm seeing spots...white spots...lots and lots of white, cold spots.

Science, Roller Style

This is Charlie's dam, to show still water on the left, and flowing water on the right.

His own idea, but it counts as science to me!

Yep, it's Spring-Like

I love paris in the spring time

Maybe another 2.5 feet this morning. The snow plows came by to clear the roads, and now our entrance has snow piled up that's taller than me.

The Montréal news just informed us that they have run out of places to dump excess snow. Sort of reminds me of the Chicago blizzard when Jane Byrne was mayor? Or maybe was running for mayor?

a blizzard in springtime

The railing near the flags is usually higher than the steps, when you can see them. Or, it was yesterday. And this morning, we've got another 2 feet, more on its way. On top of the 3 - 4 feet we've had for weeks now.

And Tookie? Tookie is a frosted mini-wheat.

Maria stocked up for the storm with a loaf of bread, a quart of milk, a stick of butter....

Can YOU walk this way?



I know, I know. Ain't B is saying, "OH! Enough with the dolphins already!"

Danny fixed "something" and now I'm able to upload my videos from the zoo. Check it out!


This was a big splash. BIG SPLASH!



I think the lady said that the red balloon was about 17 feet above the water. Awesome.

End Credits

This was at the end of the show. I heart dolphins.

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Zoo Pics