Archive | December, 2006

Let there be peace on earth

We’ve been shopping nonstop since arriving in St. Paul. Rosedale Mall, downtown St. Paul (I love Grand Avenue), you name it. Tomorrow I take Scott to his first ever professional football game over at the Dome (Vikings are playing the Rams). The other thing we’ve been doing nonstop? Eating. Pat baked for two days straight [...]

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Merry Christmas Eve

Newman’s been having a blast this Christmas, if a fun time includes following Kramer around everywhere and humping him at every possible opportunity. Ah, good holiday times. The family thing each Christmas Eve includes packing everyone into the car and heading off to church in the evening. In years past, it’s always been tied in [...]

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Charlie Brown Christmas – Performed by the Cast of Scrubs

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Duluth Road Trip

Living in the U.P. must be making me paranoid. Saturday night after our game in Duluth, I stayed locked up in my hotel room instead of going out for food. Granted, we weren’t staying in the greatest part of downtown Duluth, but it’s not Detroit, people. It did seem however, that Duluth, like Hancock, seems [...]

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Hockey

Ah, it was a busy weekend. U of MN was in town to play Tech, so we grabbed tickets for Friday night’s game. Yeah, we got spanked, but it’s still fun to see the No. 1 WCHA team play in your arena. Our seats were at center ice in the first row, right up against [...]

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Saying goodbye

As my sister would say, I miss Grandma Seely. Funerals are hard. I had been to one earlier this year and thought I was prepared for my grandmother’s. I wasn’t. As much as I do not like open casket scenarios, I needed to see her today. I was worried that seeing her in the state [...]

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Thank you, Stout

Wow, I know mapquest sucks, but my trip, which was estimated to take about six hours, took five. This is also taking into account that the roads were snowy and shitty until I got behind the Cheddar Curtain. I’m not exactly complaining, as the extra time to unwind has been nice. Free wi-fi at the [...]

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