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Dear FutureMe

/ Shane / 2 Comments

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.

Just recovered from my food coma

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Happy (late) Thanksgiving!

Pretty good Thanksgiving, we played TONS of games.  Hands and Feet, B.S., Taboo, Catch Phrase, Trivial Pursuit 90s Edition, Trivial Pursuit Pop Culture, and Scene It.  There might have been more and some games had repeat performances.  We bought “card-playing food” at Trader Joes (chips, chocolate covered peanuts, etc.) and snacked until we almost puked.  Come to think of it, the next morning Sara’s sister puked in a pillow case in the car on the way home, so I guess we DID eat until we puked! 😛

The in-laws left early Saturday morning and we didn’t do a THING all day Saturday.  Just lounged around and watched T.V. and ate leftover turkey sandwiches (mmmm leftover turkey sandwiches) and didn’t even get out of our P.J.s.  This is some much needed vacation.

Dad: “Our cat Rita died.”
Me:  “Did she get hit by a car?”
Dad: “No, she got sick.  She had a…what do you call it?  A protruded asshole.”
Sharon: “John!  Say bowel.”
Dad: “A protruded bowel coming out of her ass.  She had one and we took her to the vet and it cost $25 to fix it.  Then about a week later she got two more, each bigger than an apple.  You could tell she was in a lot of pain.  I didn’t want to pay $50 for another operation so I shot her in the back of the head.”
Me:  “You shot her??  With your pistol??”
Dad: “Yeah.  Sharon better hope she never gets hemorrhoids.”