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Relating to holidays, events, vacations, short trips or maybe just big get-togethers.

I’m Falling Again

Posted on September 23, 2004 | Leave a comment

How can it be fall alrady! I was looking for some information on the Equinox, but somehow I found out that “The time of Harvest is in the sign of Virgo and Libra during the pregnancy of Autumn. The Fall is a time when Nature reaches fulfillment with the ripening of her fruits, and is symbolic of the fusion of opposites.” and I decided to keep it! (Here’s some geeky info on it if you want…)

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A Birthday Story

Posted on September 13, 2004 | 1 comment

So do you remember A Christmas Story? Do you remember when Darren McGaven (aka the Night Stalker) won “a major award”? Well I got one for my birthday this weekend! It’s excellent! Mark bought it for me and he doesn’t even remember that part of the movie. He had it shipped to his work and everyone saw it (there’s a photo on the box) and everyone came over to ask about it (I used to work there so they all know me). The box was even marked FRAGILE. If you haven’t seen this movie it’s a must see. WGN usually runs it for 24 hours straight the day before Christmas (or is it Thanksgiving?).

And did I tell you than it lights up the leg too!?!

A very cool lamp. Although it’s not like it matches any of my stuff. I better be careful or I’ll poke my eye out….

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Have my cake and eat it too!

Posted on September 11, 2004 | Leave a comment

So I know you’ve all heard me mention my Waffle Toffee Crunch Ice Cream Sundae from the last few times I was in England. So at work yesterday (for my birthday, which is actually today/Saturday) we always have cake for the birthday-boys (and girls) and Kim had made me a Waffle Toffee Crunch Cake with Whipped Creme on top. I thought it was kinda silly at first but it was delicious!!!

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More Tubing

Posted on August 28, 2004 | Leave a comment

tube_geo_smallSo I’ve always liked the London Tube and I like the maps of it. I mention it a few times on my last trip (see the entries under holidays). I particularly liked a diagram that showed how the lines were really shaped. Well someone took that diagram and superimposed it over a satellite photo and now it’s even more interesting…

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Celebration…

Posted on August 22, 2004 | Leave a comment

So yesterday we got everyone together after Heather’s Ordination. Back at Mom’s (hers) to get everyone together, and I mean everyone. Heather knows people from all over and there were people from everywhere in the state, nearby states and even some really far ones. A few kids running around and a ten-month old baby, LaLa (short for Lavender), that I adopted for the weekend.

Then today she did the service at 8am and 10am (most of us went to the 10) and she was wonderful. Then a dozen of us went out to eat and we started our way home…

Heather is off to Evanston, IL to work for Northwestern as a campus minister. She’ll probably be living no farther than a block or three from where she lived when she went to seminary at Seabury. Evanston is one of my favorite towns, I almost always include it in my visits to Chicago (and I don’t always include Chicago into my Evanston visits). And I can take the train most of the way there!

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She did it! Congratulations Heather!

Posted on August 21, 2004 | Leave a comment

heather04Today I had the pleasure of seeing Heather Marie Voss be ordained and become The Reverend Heather Voss…

More later. Gotta get back inside…

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It’s over

Posted on August 11, 2004 | Leave a comment

So I haven’t really gotten to keep this (my London Blog) as up-to-date as I’d like. I guess I was having too much fun while I was there and trying to catch up with life now that I’m home. I haven’t filled in a lot of the blanks or explained a lot of things. But I think I have most of the photos I’d like to post up (not all of them, I just ran out of disk space on my server, had to delete the Boston photos to find room).

Other stuff:

  • The goofy room key in the slot on the wall is so you have power in the room
  • The bridge with the towers is the Tower Bridge, the flat one is the London bridge.
  • I never got to do the trampoline thing.
  • The weird building from BladeRunner was a Lloyds of London.
  • I only got to eat five Waffle Toffee Crunch Sundaes. I was trying for seven.

    Here’s the last set of photos. This makes four…

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    Blading

    Posted on August 11, 2004 | Leave a comment

    england04-24_09-08-52So while I was in England I got to hang out with Monika, Danielle and Alysha. They were a blast and the kids had these accents that were so cute it actually sounded like that they were pretending to have accents. I should have recorded them so I could add an audio clip here.

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