Merry Christmas and a happy New Year?

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Better late than never, right?

Hey, I’ve been busy.  Did the usual 3 state trip (IN, MI, WI) over the break.  It was exhausting!  I couldn’t believe how much stuff we had to bring for Evie.  We couldn’t have fit very much else in the car.  How do you do it with more than 1 kid?  It’s still not over with yet, we still have more traveling for the next two weekends (IN and WI respectively).  I was really worn out by vacation. 😦  I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that Evie has apparently stopped sleeping.

Okay, check this out.  Yeah, I read that book…saw the movie too.  Were they Rita Hayworth pictures by any chance?  You’d think they’d at least make prison escape movies that were up for best picture required watching for all prison guards.

So I get frustrated with LiveJournal from time to time.  (BTW did you notice all those annoying “link preview” things are gone now when you hover over hyperlinks on here?)  I found a program the other day that downloaded all of the content and comments from this blog and saved it on my computer.  So I have it now, which opens up the option to switching to another service (probably blogger because Sara won’t let me pay for my own domain).  But should I?  Loyal readers what say you?

On one hand I think I would have better features since I won’t pay for an account on LiveJournal.  On the other hand would I be disloyal to LiveJournal and to Stacy if I switched?  Although it seems like a long time ago, I really started this with her in mind and it kind of feels disloyal to her memory to switch to something else.

Famous…and now I can prove it!

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Our article in Chicago Magazine is now posted online, so you can save yourself the $5 and read it there.

In fact, we were so pretty that they used our picture in the table of contents to link to the article!

This is my brother in law

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I’m just putting this here because I think Evie needs to see it some day

Lebowski Fest ’08

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Lebowski Fest ’08 is being held in Chicago!
 
Unlimited bowling, White Russians, Creedence cover band, screening of the movie, what have you.

What more could you want?

The most amazing thing to me is some of the costumes from past events.  There is no character from the movie too obscure that someone hasn’t dressed as them.  Also check out some of the past events such as tossing out the ringer full of dirty undies or throwing a coffee mug at the Dude’s head!

Shave and a haircut

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Normally Sara cuts my hair, but lately we have been very short on time.  I’m sure everybody feels that way when they have a baby, but with both of us working we are really just trying to make it from day to day.  And since I can’t usually get much work done on Friday, I am usually trying to fit work in Thur/Fri/Sat/Sun whenever I can.  So my hair was really getting out of control and I decided to just pay to get it cut.  I can’t even find time to do that!  So I finally convinced her to cut my hair after Evie went to bed.

When I was getting the razor out my hand snagged on a tag that was in the box reminding you to keep your razor well oiled.  Well I never do and it makes an awful noise, sounding something like “Oil can!  Oil can!”  So I had the razor all set up, but I decided to oil it except it had been so long since I used the oil that it apparently all evaporated or something!  So I couldn’t oil it and I sat down and took my glasses off and Sara started shaving.  We both kind of thought, “Wow, that is a lot of hair!”  After she had shaved two large, non-consecutive swatches in the side of my head she stopped and said, “Is this how short it normally is?”  I was like, “Yes, of course, #2 guard like always!” but I put on my glasses and took a look.

Here’s the problem.

I took off the guard to oil it and I didn’t put it back on before I handed it to her.  So I have two nearly bald paths up the side of my head!  I begged her to use the #2 guard and try to blend it somehow, but it was so far away from being able to be blended that Sara actually laughed until she peed a little at the suggestion.  We really had no choice but to go with the #1 guard and you can still see that there are two parts that are a little thinner, despite our attempts to blend it.  Sara said, “You have the craziest stories, but they’re all your fault.”

So now I have some really short hair, but it actually doesn’t look too bad. 
Think Andre Agassi or Stanley Tucci
        

(Hopefully more Andre Agassi and less Stanley Tucci)