Happy 50th!

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Happy 50th birthday to my mom today!  Man, that’s OLD! 😛

Okay, I haven’t been blogging much lately, mostly because I’m lazy.  Also I’ve been gone a lot.  I’m still waiting for all that free time that’s supposed to materialize now that I’ve graduated from school.

Okay, so what happened lately.  Vermont is a cold awful hell hole and I can’t believe that people actually live there.  But we did go to the Ben and Jerry’s factory, so there was that.  There was an evening of rum punch and also there’s a ski resort close by named Smuggler’s Notch.  How can that not sound dirty?

I started working on my resume and I’m going to start looking for jobs soon.  Maybe nothing will come of it, we’ll see.  There’s very little chance I could get a job as good as the one that I have, unfortunately.  Philly’s cool and all, but I want to be back in the midwest where all the action is! 😛

Okay, this is kind of random, but a group of guys that I used to work with started a big wheel biker gang.

I think that’s all there is.  I thought I was going to have a lot more to say when I sat down to write this, but maybe not.

quick post

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First off, Happy Birthday to me!  (26 in case you were wondering)

Maybe I’ll make a bigger post later about our holiday driving extravaganza (2,200 miles driven in a week and a half).  Next weekend we’re going to drive up to VT and visit with Jen and Derek.  What’s better than vacation right after vacation? 🙂

Sara is still marveling that I got 18 books for christmas (although not every book I asked for).  I also got 6 cds which are all great.  (Latest Jack Johnson, latest Better than Ezra, Wicked soundtrack, Simon and Garfunkle’s greatest hits, Jet “Get Born” and the latest Gwen Stephani.  Yeah, Gwen Stephani.  Thank God few people read this)  It’s been so long since I got new music that I almost forgot what it was like.  We’re not allowed to bring burned cds in to work, so my collection was getting pretty stale.

This might be a little late since christmas is done and all, but I guess it’s never too late to pimp out a nutcracker.

P.S.  My mom gave me a graduation card when we were home!

Dear FutureMe

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Write your future self a note from your present self.

But even more fun is reading notes other people have written to themselves in the past.

I got crazy sick over the weekend but I think I’m going to be better by Christmas.  3 more days of work this week.  14 hours of Axis and Allies over the weekend.  I beat Tony but Sara beat me.  I couldn’t belive she actually played and I think she even kind of liked it.  First Monday with no school!  No celebration for finishing grad school. 😦 I should have walked in the ceremony, then people would have had to come visit from home and buy me presents!  That was dumb.  The Packers suck.  Yesterday Sara let me go through her closet and actually got rid of like 4 bags of clothes!! I don’t know what came over her.  I’m so proud! 😛

That is all.

Wine, women and Axis and Allies

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Sara’s friends from work are really into wine, which makes me feel like I should know at least the bare minimum so I’m not a complete idiot.  Plus it’s kind of fun!  So, lately I’ve been learning a little bit about wine.  So far I know 3 things:
1) The quality of the wine pretty much has nothing to do with the price.  Even if you’re a snobby wine person, it’s okay to buy wine for less than $20.  You can get good wine for $10 or $100.
2) I don’t really like white wine or bubbly wine like Champagne.
3) I do like red wine, but I’m not that into Merlot.  I do like Cabernet and Shiraz.
We went to this awesome store in Delaware called Total Wine and it is as big as like a Target, but just for alcohol.  It’s worth the drive to check out!  Anyway, we bought a wide assortment of wine to try, so we’re getting there.

I went to see Anastasia last week!  We had a good time.  Her husband from Ghana made us some authentic African food and it was sooooo good.  We played scrabble and stayed there really late (like 2 a.m. which is late for an old man like me).  We also brought wine, which was part of the above cut.  I had a good time, I definitely want to hang with them again.  They are really into politics, social policy and Africa, but it seems like maybe they might be too into that stuff.  And also I think she pretty much hates me because of where I work but she’s willing to try to overlook that. 🙂  Anyway we made plans to hang out again after the holidays.

Back in high school we played a lot of Axis and Allies and I absolutely love that game. It was out of print for awhile but apparently they are making it again.  The only problem is that it costs like $40 on account of all the little pieces.  But the other day they had a Lockheed Martin day at Toys R Us where you could get 50% off one item, so I totally bought it.  $20 isn’t quite as bad for a board game!  So I’m all ready to go and I think we’re going to play this weekend.  Unfortunately I don’t believe Sara-The-Game-Queen is going to like it very much, but maybe she’ll humor me because she loves playing games so much that if that’s the only one I’ll play, she’ll settle.

Master of the Universe

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FINALLY FINISHED MY MASTERS DEGREE!!!!!!

Wow.  What a relief.  This feels great!

I’m kind of disapointed though because I thought Sara might plan something to celebrate or something.  When she graduated from grad school I bought a gift and drove to North Carolina.  When she found out she passed her board exam I bought her flowers and a decorated a cake.  When I got home I was all excited and I was telling her about class and how glad I was to be done but she wasn’t paying attention because she was on the Internet and watching T.V.  She didn’t even wait for me to get home to eat dinner.  She just really doesn’t seem to care at all, but to me it seems like a pretty big milestone.  But who knows, Monday night isn’t the best day to celebrate, maybe this weekend we can do something.

I’m just a little conflicted because I’m glad to be done but disapointed that nobody seems to care.