Mike: You and my brother must like a lot of the same things: Pat had the same Classic Football Game in about 1980. I believe Mom still have it somewhere :) Cool that it's back!



Sharon, Jack and Kelly Osbourne were on Howard Stern last night. 2 things: Howard asked Sharon about giving Kelly the finger wiping incident on one another. And, when Howard asked what was up with Sharon's new friendship with Rosie O'Donnell. Jack's response: "It's a big lesbian love fest." Kelly got really ticked at him for saying that. It was too funny. Second half is on tonight, 10pm Central on E.



Just got the call on my car. Damages are over $1400 so they will total it. But, guess what they're going to pay me for the car? Over $1900!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Plus, an extra $50 for the loss of clothing and luggage (bag) in the vehicle. This is a damn good thing to have happen. I'm buying a newer vehicle this week!

Because I'm still relatively new in the working world, I struggle with many decisions I make. Ever written an internal document and had it come back and bite you in the ass? My boss accidentally (it appears) forwarded it on to someone in the business office and there were some strongly worded observations on this other person's position as part of our org. Needless to say, she (person I wrote about) is not too happy with me. And, my boss is in Denmark and unreachable. However, I maintain that nothing I wrote was wrong, everything was truthful and they were simply MY observations and opinions, that my supervisor asked me to write. To be honest, I was tired of the fakey, sugar-coating stuff that was going on and so I wrote things in a manner that weren't quite as business like as I normally would have. Any suggestions on how I form a defense plan? I'm not embarrassed, and although I would rather have had it paraphrased, there was no other way this would have gotten my point across. Sometimes MN nice gets frustrating....



Paige's room looks awesome. My sister-in-law is one great decorator! Guard your wallet, Pat, when she and Pam live nearer to one another :)



Ever seen the movie Joe Dirt with David Spade? Better then I thought.



Friday night we went to a surprise 30th birthday for friend Shanda. You could tell that Gabe planned it (her husband). He called us 2 hours before we were due there to say, "Crap, we're having a surprise for Shanda tonight. I forgot to call a bunch of people. Can you come?" Had to laugh. And we went. She was surprised and asked, "Who coordinated this?" Couldn't believe her husband had managed to pull it off. Funny part-she said that her 3 year old Tyler said earlier in the day, "I have a surprise for you. Happy Birthday Mommy!" He knew about it and did a great job for his age to keep a secret :) The funnier part is that he keeps switching between Happy Birthday and Happy Mother's Day-likes to wish his mommy both. And, his daycare lady is pregnant and he keeps getting breasts and belly mixed up on which is what. The other day he told Shanda, "I like your boobs Mommy!" She says she wished she had never mentioned the name of what those were :)


My 13-year old cousin Tyler asked his Dad the other day, "When guys are older and then don't get married, does that make them priests?" :-) They're Lutheran. This is from the kid, who was told that our Fore-fathers came here from Norway, asked his mom, "You had FOUR FATHERS?!?"