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Entries from April 2009

The Enlightenment (hard work)

April 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Picked up my son from his job at the ice cream stand last night. So glad that he was able to inform us about the woes of being busy at work. Yes, he as actually tired! There were lots of people wanting to be served. One of his co-workers was snippy and bossy when things [...]

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Tags: Life Observations

Too Much Back From Chicago

April 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

My daughter and I attended a baby shower in Chicago this weekend. I have heard wonderful things about the city and of course, Oprah is there. My son wanted me to find this restaurant run by Rick Bayliss. He got addicted to watching his cooking show on PBS and then got me to watch it. [...]

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Tags: Kids

Keeping Promises

April 14th, 2009 · 10 Comments

My kids absolutely hate that I blog. It is a very sore subject and after they read something they don’t like, always promise to never read it again. Until the next time they read it and the bellyaching starts all over again. I wrote an article about Facebook in the Buffalo paper that was published [...]

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Tags: Family

Standard Issue

April 3rd, 2009 · 10 Comments

After one too many times of being abused, over-worked and under appreciated, it was time for replacement. No, I am not talking about me – I mean our washing machine. I had dreams (before the economic crisis) of having a set of those new-fangled lovely front loading models that you can get in colors to [...]

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Tags: Family