Two Chins In Two Months

Just big

and still weird

First Family Portrait

done in a pizza buffet

Bills, Bruises, Buffets In Brrrr

Surviving Sandy: Day Four

Laura had to go in to work this day. No heart in corporate America. Despite a hurricane and massive flooding, people gotta buy tchotchkes. But Yuula and I layered up and decided to do some heavy reading. Yuula on her book collection and I on that stack of papers that's been mysteriously collecting under my desk for a year or so.

Bills, expired coupons, offers, etc. It all had a place, and most of it was the trash can. But it had to be done. Some of it was kind of important. Guess I should hope for power outages more often.

Then Yuula fell down and hit her head on the stairs. Little bump that a bottle can fix easily.

I decided to fend off concussion and take her for a walk. She was all but too eager to comply, and it's not like it was any colder outside than it was inside.

We found an old walking buddy who was all of the sudden hard to shake.

It wasn't long til boogers started running heavy and served as temporary refreshment.

We took some silly shots

I have a large schnozz

When Laura got home we packed up our dirtbag family and headed out to CiCi's pizza. A warm meal for a cheap buck and also a place that we could camp out at for as long as we needed to to let our bones defrost. 

We hopped on over to the new megastore bargain book store. Bought Yuula  few new reads and I picked up a copy of Richard Dawkin's "The Ancestor's Tale" for only $1. Should I still read it?

Then we wandered around Target pretending to shop. Yuula took after her mother and decided to do a little redecorating throughout the store. We bought nothing. I think we may have bought a candy bar.

We rented Safety Not Guaranteed to watch by the fireplace bed this night. It was okay. That girl from Parks & Rec is funny, but I think I dozed off a few too many times to actually get what the hell was going on. They disappeared. Is that good? 

Rainy Days On Wednesdays Always

Laura has Wednesdays off and somehow every Wednesday it seems to rain outside. Always. We're hoping to get a day to go on a little nature walk or maybe a family photo shoot before the snow falls and we are stuck. But we adapt and headed for indoors, mainly Babies 'R' Us, CiCi's pizza and the Lehigh Valley Mall. Yuula tried out a new style of merchandising, Laura & I invented a new game where we read out people's facebook statuses and then try and guess whose it is and we finally learned what one hand and one slice of pizza sounds like clapping. So, the rain don't stop us!








And we managed to pick up a few Christmas gifts right under her nose. Won't be able to do that next year.

Just Visiting

Caravans rolled into town this weekend, carrying all sorts of dancers and buglers and drummer boys. Laura and I thought we'd go see what all the fuss was about.



I took to the field like a fish. Tho I barely knew 1/4 of the kids, it still felt the same, and looked the same and smelled the same, and tho I was savoring my Taco Bell linger, I found that it even tasted the same. They're in the home stretch now, so things are coming together. Makes for a good time to visit. Usually spirits are up and enthusiasm, for whatever it may be, is high. Usually.



Laura hasn't seen the sun much this summer so it missed her and got to her fast. Wasn't long before baby belly had to put her baby belly back into some AC, so we drove around the neighborhood a bit, visiting yardsales and antique stores, but not finding much of anything worth something. Nothing in other words. Our search criteria has changed as we used to look for odd knick knacks or oversized furniture, and now we look for dolls & wood blocks. Funny how that happens.




Our buddy our pal Eric came by the rehearsal. We caught up with him. Glad to hear he's finally making some dough off his photography talents. Can't help but feel we got him into a pickle there. He filled us in on all his goings-ons, like his new clothing line and his new fish-eye lens and his new moving to Onset and his plans beyond that. He's always got adventures going on, and next weekend they'll be going on at our house.



We took Greg & Daniel to the CiCi's in Allentown. Laura has been literally dying for a pizza buffet since we moved up here. I admit, I missed that macaroni & cheese pizza too, and the cinnamon buns were better than I remembered, which is why I had about 6. Hey! It took us 3 years to get there once. Could be another 3 before we go again. Gotta get while ya can.

Then off to the show, where everyone had something to do and somewhere to be, except us. As it should be. We wandered around and tried to stay out of the way and played fly on the wall. Oh the drama.



Nice to see everyone. Old friends on new paths. Got the dream team together for a commemorative photo. We got stories. This one's going in the album.