Month: January 2009

  • One of those 25 things posts

    So going around Facebook lately are these 25 random things posts.  So here is mine.  I thought I’d put it on my blog and wait for it to import over to Facebook Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At…

  • Virginia Tech

    So back on New Year’s Day, my alma mater, the University of Cincinnati football game played in a bowl game against Virginia Tech. Since my dad works at VT, we put a little prop bet on the game. The loser had to wear a hat of the winner and take a picture at work with…

  • Meijer Box Tops deal report

    Okay so Meijer had a promotion this week where if you bought 10 participating products, you got a custom coupon for 70 box tops for education. Each BTFE has a face value of 10 cents, and you can turn them into your kid’s school, or, in my case, sell them on eBay. This is actually…

  • The mechanics of being the best man at your best friend’s brother’s wedding

    So while working late at night I get an email that says, in its entirety: Why didn’t Larry ask Harry to be his best man?  I mean, they’re brothers! And doesn’t Larry have a best friend of his own?  I mean you’re not even Larry’s best friend; you’re Harry’s best friend! In what world would…

  • Diane Tafuri, #1 Agent

    So there is a billboard that is on my way home from work. It proclaims that Diane Tafuri of Sibcy Cline has been the #1 agent for 13 years. I thought that it said 13 straight years but her website says it was 2008 plus 1995-2006. So I might be mis-remembering the actual billboard. But…

  • My awesome goaly wife

    I just wanted to let it be known that my wife is doing awesome at her goals. She is exercising like a champ. And she is doing very well on eating only 1 thing of sugar per week. I think she would have caved yesterday if we had only had eggs in the house to…

  • Workin hard for the money

    So I had to stay late at work today because it was a really crazy day and lots of production problems and such at work. So I get home right about the kids’ bedtime and my 6 y/o son asks “Why did you not get home till so late?”  I of course told him it…

  • Being a doofus

    So it’s always fun finding out that you’ve been (or are being) a doofus. Thankfully it doesn’t really happen to me TOO often (he says with all humility). I mean, there are certainly times when I’ve been wrong on things but not often to the level where I sit back and think “Man that was…

  • Sunday Sacrament meeting

    So as I mentioned in my last post, we’ve been dealing with some kid sickness. Because I have meetings and such that I have to go to church anyways, I went by myself last week. Church is definitely interesting with the no-kid factor in there. So while I was sitting there in sacrament meeting, actually…

  • Good vomit story

    So – classic story that I want to share. We have recently been sick in our family, of the vomitous variety. As many of you undoubtedly know, one of the downsides of having multiple children is that they all get sick. And they don’t even have the consideration to all get sick at once. Nope,…