This Monday our family dog, Red passed away. Red as a puppy was, well, like all puppies, awful. In fact she inspired a song about her devilish behavior. However, as she grew older she became a wonderful dog. Loyal and smart. Her beautiful name did not come from the fact she was reddish in color, but from Red Dog beer (my brother named her). She was one of the few dogs that could put up with Evie and that says something about her character. To Red, one great dog.
My gift to you, Winter Song from Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson off The Hotel Cafe Presents Winter Songs
Enjoy:
what you might not know about me is that i love the monkees. it started when i was a little girl and would watch the episodes on mtv. my mom was also a fan when she was a kid (she loved davy, I was a micky girl). the thing is i couldn’t grasp when i was younger that they were popular in the 60’s, so i thought i could realistically marry micky someday. i mean you just gotta love the outfits. oh, how i miss the days when i would rewind the song on my pink portable cassette player and listen to it over and over again. those were the days. enjoy.
Oh it is that time of year again, snow is falling, people forgot how to drive, the malls are crowded and my feet are always cold. The bright side, my yearly Christmas Wish List! It is one of my favorite things to do because I get to go dream shopping. This is the first year my list doesn’t not contain an item from Tiffanys…weird.
So here is this year’s list:
2008 Christmas Wish List
Previous years:
2007 Christmas Wish List
2006 Christmas Wish List
2005 Christmas Wish List
This year for Thanksgiving we headed up to Terry & Kari’s place. We stayed from Wednesday through Saturday and had a great time. The only issue was me being sick. I can not shake this stupid cold and I was crazy coughing everywhere, it was awesome.
Thursday - We headed to the movies, some of us to Twilight, some to James Bond (I went to Twilight, yes, I love those books). I had to leave a few times to have a coughing attack. After the movie we went for dinner at Mimi’s Cafe, which had the best hot chocolate. Played some Yahtzee and went to bed early since I was going to wake at 4:45am for Black Friday.
Friday - My first Black Friday and it was a super success! We scoured the ads, had a game plan: Sears, Ikea, Target and etc. At 5:00am we ran to Sears, which was a zoo, promptly left, got coffee, went to Circuit City (no line, no crowd) and bought a new T.V. Then went to Target for some little things (no line, no crowd). Then Ikea for the $99 bed frame, which was super organized. We were home by noon, ate lunch and took a nap. That night some went to a hockey game, Kari and I went to dinner at Sweet Tomatoes and went to Borders.
Saturday - The girls (Kari, Ally, Andie and I) went to Dirty Dancing. It was a little strange…the guy who played Johnny Castle was Australian, his accent kept coming and going, it was weird. None of the main cast sang, in fact there was probably only 4 songs that were actually sung, the rest was a played soundtrack. Penny was not a ballroom dancer and it looked so awkward when she tried to dance with a partner. There was some good things, the actress who played Baby was really good and it was nice to relive my favorite at a really nice theater. Afterwards we went to dinner at Houlihans, which was delicious and I had a martini flight, the best martinis ever. While we were at dinner, Nick was packing us up to leave that night since we heard about a winter storm heading our way. At 8:00pm we headed out with their van since we had so many big boxes to take home. Once we hit Iowa City the weather was awful. We eventually got home at 1:30am.
Sunday - We headed to my aunts house for “all grandkid” picture including the twins. After a lot of picture taking we headed home so Chad could use our printer then the boys wanted HuHot, so went to dinner and then back home.
What a crazy fun week/weekend. I am still sick and actually feeling really terrible, so that’s wonderful.
Pictures: Chicago/Thanksgiving or Grandkid Picture
