Momma’s got her red dress on and the girls are ready to party!
The best part is no one there gives a damn about Ohio politics!! Chris has promised not to try and enlighten anyone tonight. I’ll have to get him sauced enough to get on the dance floor with me.
I don’t even know why I’m typing up this comment, because I’m pretty sure I’m just having a bizarre (and incredibly lame) dream and the last two entries of this blog don’t really exist…
Dancing? I’m jealous. Have fun. I did go out to dinner with my husband tonight to a Japanese restaurant. Very good and had a very helpful waiter. We had dinner in between dropping both daughtesr off to different locations and were done before we had to pick them up. We took separate cars and met at the restaurant. Weird driving alone after dinner. But nice night. My oldest teenager didn’t go out tonight after her job so I can get to sleep early in peace. That’s a good Saturday night for me!
Nothing much happening around here. Husband took daughter to a birthday party at a skating rink, and my son and I discovered some new silliness on the web via the Flying Spaghetti Monster web site.
Our son is a church lock-in this weekend so we had some free time. We like to catch dinner in between drop offs too and pretend it’s a date. The boy complains because we go to nicer places but I tell him he cant go unless he pulls his pants up like somebody with some sense and that we need married people time and he gets totally grossed out. LOL…Chris says I am scarring the boy.
Renee..that just tickled me. Flying Spaghetti Monster
So, how was your date? How’s your head this morning? Get kicked out of anywhere? Hope you had fun. We always tried to go out on Saturday night especially when the kids were small. We had date night. You’ve got to bond and have fun. We needed sometime just to forget about all our obligations, responsibilities, toil and troubles. It was uninterupted time to talk about things that interested us. Even if it was just for 2 hours, we’d go. I would recommend that to all young couples. Even when money was tight, we’d go to the matinee in the afternoon or walk around some park or the mall.
It was fun. I love to people watch and it just amazes me the way people dress who are in denial of their age. Lots of younger people too. The music they dance too is..whew. Where’s the love?? Good times I didnt get kicked out and Chris is still speaking to me. Mainly due to the fact that there was no alchol served but at least we managed to get home in one peice and as far as I can tell not on the news. Getting Chris to unwind was a chore. I was just glad there was no political talk. Someone asked what we’d been up to and I mentioned the senate race between Sherrod Brown and Paul Hackett and got a completely blank stare. I’d almost forgotten what that was like.
You might as well go out because by the time you drop the kids off where ever they are going and get home it is time to go pick them up again. Yeah you really do need that time just to be regular people. We go to the bookstore alot. I have been jonesing for PF Chang’s but it is always so busy and we never plan enough to make reservations. You know we used to go to like furniture stores and just window shop for fun back when we were younger and poorer. Or when we lived in San Francisco we’d drive around and look at all the big gazillion dollar houses. It was fun and free.
Model homes in really expensive deleopments are fun. The agents look at you like you are some crazy homeless people but they HAVE to be nice to you. Some museums are free. Costco at lunch time is is a very cheap date and only recommended if you are married. Don’t try that if you’re single, it’s way too cheap.
That must have been really hard living in SF just starting out. It would be hard to live there now on a normal salary. We started out on the east coast and that was difficult. But I was taught be the best, my depression era parents and grandparents. I not only squeeze a nickel, I make it scream .
a few years ago, I went to visit my sister in San Francisco and we decided to walk around her neighbrohood (the Castro) one day. There was this open house for a multi-level adorable little southwestern style house with all these tiny stories stacked on each other at odd angles, set into a hill with this ancient tree in the front. It was a mere million and a half but smaller by far than my place in Cleveland which cost less than one-tenth that. So there are so good things about Ohio. (Of course, I probably won’t be living here anymore if Blackwell becomes governor. At that point, I’d seriously consider moving home to Chicago. So please people, help that to NOT happen!)
I love SF and at one point, there was a job opening there I thought of applying for. I noticed it was open forever and asked someone inside about it. They said basically the person they hired would prertty much need to be the spouse of someone already living and working out there because, though the salary was a lot more than you’d make in Cleveland, no single person could live on it out there. So there weren’t a lot of people with the credentials who could really afford to apply.
yeah Ana…I loved SF to visit for long periods of time but I was there 2 yrs. You are basially paying to live there. Our first apt was a tiny 850 sf 2bdrm and just over $1300 a month. The crappiest smallest houses that might go for $45k here were $300k out there…and no grass!!! A 2000 sf home is simply unheard of unless you have a couple million laying around. Call me a redneck but I gotta have grass and a garden. Doesnt do ya any good to make a good salary out there when dozen eggs are $3 bucks.
..but i do miss the beach….and our favorite restuarant Georgio’s…and Golden Gate park….but I feel ya….if things dont change soon Indianapolis is looking kinda nice.
I drove almost 300 miles yesterday. The drive to Clermont County was spent stopping and talking with people along the way. The people of Southern Ohio have lots of ideas about how to make this country better…
I spent most of the entire day in Clermont County knocking on doors until 7:30 pm. Then I stopped by the parking lot at the Batavia Transmission Plant. Then I talked with people the whole way home to Pike County. I stopped at the rest stop on 32 and shut my eyes for 15 minutes because I couldn’t go any further. For a change, I actually got to say goodnight to our kids when I got home.
64 1/2 more days until the primary. Win or lose, I believe that I will have given the most effort. That’s what we need… A Congressman who is going to work for people instead of rubber-stamping the Bush Administration. Jean Schmidt and Bob McEwen know nothing of effort. They are “political” people. I am a real representative of the people of Southern Ohio. That’s why this is so easy for me.
That was my night in the Ohio 2nd. This is just one snapshot of what I have been doing for you since last September…
I hope that everybody had a nice evening… Have a nice day.
Goodness it would have helped if I could squeeze a nickel…but un/fortunately “No” was not in my mom’s vocabulary. She said we were not bred for denial.
Dancing. You know, twirling and things? With an emphasis on things.
We went to a 20th Century Modern show today. It was great fun. I bought a 1934 wind up clock that works. My husband got a purple lava lamp. It’s perfect. We just sit and watch, look at each other, and say. “What? Me worry?”
Momma’s got her red dress on and the girls are ready to party!
The best part is no one there gives a damn about Ohio politics!! Chris has promised not to try and enlighten anyone tonight. I’ll have to get him sauced enough to get on the dance floor with me.
Have fun. My hubby was in such a state exactly once, and it was on our wedding day, at the reception.
Hey this is bringing me back some fantastic memories of my second favorite day in my life (after the birth of my son)…my wonderful happy wedding day!!
I don’t even know why I’m typing up this comment, because I’m pretty sure I’m just having a bizarre (and incredibly lame) dream and the last two entries of this blog don’t really exist…
but still. This is weird.
Dancing? I’m jealous. Have fun. I did go out to dinner with my husband tonight to a Japanese restaurant. Very good and had a very helpful waiter. We had dinner in between dropping both daughtesr off to different locations and were done before we had to pick them up. We took separate cars and met at the restaurant. Weird driving alone after dinner. But nice night. My oldest teenager didn’t go out tonight after her job so I can get to sleep early in peace. That’s a good Saturday night for me!
Nothing much happening around here. Husband took daughter to a birthday party at a skating rink, and my son and I discovered some new silliness on the web via the Flying Spaghetti Monster web site.
http://www.streetprophets.com/story/2006/2/25/204420/475
Our son is a church lock-in this weekend so we had some free time. We like to catch dinner in between drop offs too and pretend it’s a date. The boy complains because we go to nicer places but I tell him he cant go unless he pulls his pants up like somebody with some sense and that we need married people time and he gets totally grossed out. LOL…Chris says I am scarring the boy.
Renee..that just tickled me. Flying Spaghetti Monster
So, how was your date? How’s your head this morning? Get kicked out of anywhere? Hope you had fun. We always tried to go out on Saturday night especially when the kids were small. We had date night. You’ve got to bond and have fun. We needed sometime just to forget about all our obligations, responsibilities, toil and troubles. It was uninterupted time to talk about things that interested us. Even if it was just for 2 hours, we’d go. I would recommend that to all young couples. Even when money was tight, we’d go to the matinee in the afternoon or walk around some park or the mall.
It was fun. I love to people watch and it just amazes me the way people dress who are in denial of their age. Lots of younger people too. The music they dance too is..whew. Where’s the love?? Good times I didnt get kicked out and Chris is still speaking to me. Mainly due to the fact that there was no alchol served but at least we managed to get home in one peice and as far as I can tell not on the news. Getting Chris to unwind was a chore. I was just glad there was no political talk. Someone asked what we’d been up to and I mentioned the senate race between Sherrod Brown and Paul Hackett and got a completely blank stare. I’d almost forgotten what that was like.
You might as well go out because by the time you drop the kids off where ever they are going and get home it is time to go pick them up again. Yeah you really do need that time just to be regular people. We go to the bookstore alot. I have been jonesing for PF Chang’s but it is always so busy and we never plan enough to make reservations. You know we used to go to like furniture stores and just window shop for fun back when we were younger and poorer. Or when we lived in San Francisco we’d drive around and look at all the big gazillion dollar houses. It was fun and free.
Model homes in really expensive deleopments are fun. The agents look at you like you are some crazy homeless people but they HAVE to be nice to you. Some museums are free. Costco at lunch time is is a very cheap date and only recommended if you are married. Don’t try that if you’re single, it’s way too cheap.
That must have been really hard living in SF just starting out. It would be hard to live there now on a normal salary. We started out on the east coast and that was difficult. But I was taught be the best, my depression era parents and grandparents. I not only squeeze a nickel, I make it scream .
a few years ago, I went to visit my sister in San Francisco and we decided to walk around her neighbrohood (the Castro) one day. There was this open house for a multi-level adorable little southwestern style house with all these tiny stories stacked on each other at odd angles, set into a hill with this ancient tree in the front. It was a mere million and a half but smaller by far than my place in Cleveland which cost less than one-tenth that. So there are so good things about Ohio. (Of course, I probably won’t be living here anymore if Blackwell becomes governor. At that point, I’d seriously consider moving home to Chicago. So please people, help that to NOT happen!)
I love SF and at one point, there was a job opening there I thought of applying for. I noticed it was open forever and asked someone inside about it. They said basically the person they hired would prertty much need to be the spouse of someone already living and working out there because, though the salary was a lot more than you’d make in Cleveland, no single person could live on it out there. So there weren’t a lot of people with the credentials who could really afford to apply.
yeah Ana…I loved SF to visit for long periods of time but I was there 2 yrs. You are basially paying to live there. Our first apt was a tiny 850 sf 2bdrm and just over $1300 a month. The crappiest smallest houses that might go for $45k here were $300k out there…and no grass!!! A 2000 sf home is simply unheard of unless you have a couple million laying around. Call me a redneck but I gotta have grass and a garden. Doesnt do ya any good to make a good salary out there when dozen eggs are $3 bucks.
..but i do miss the beach….and our favorite restuarant Georgio’s…and Golden Gate park….but I feel ya….if things dont change soon Indianapolis is looking kinda nice.
I drove almost 300 miles yesterday. The drive to Clermont County was spent stopping and talking with people along the way. The people of Southern Ohio have lots of ideas about how to make this country better…
I spent most of the entire day in Clermont County knocking on doors until 7:30 pm. Then I stopped by the parking lot at the Batavia Transmission Plant. Then I talked with people the whole way home to Pike County. I stopped at the rest stop on 32 and shut my eyes for 15 minutes because I couldn’t go any further. For a change, I actually got to say goodnight to our kids when I got home.
64 1/2 more days until the primary. Win or lose, I believe that I will have given the most effort. That’s what we need… A Congressman who is going to work for people instead of rubber-stamping the Bush Administration. Jean Schmidt and Bob McEwen know nothing of effort. They are “political” people. I am a real representative of the people of Southern Ohio. That’s why this is so easy for me.
That was my night in the Ohio 2nd. This is just one snapshot of what I have been doing for you since last September…
I hope that everybody had a nice evening… Have a nice day.
Jim Parker
Jim Parker for YOU
My goodness Jim, I hope you took your wife dancing afterwards.
Goodness it would have helped if I could squeeze a nickel…but un/fortunately “No” was not in my mom’s vocabulary. She said we were not bred for denial.
There is a dance in pants coming just a little bit later.
Mrs. Editor,
Define “Dancing”…
Dancing. You know, twirling and things? With an emphasis on things.
We went to a 20th Century Modern show today. It was great fun. I bought a 1934 wind up clock that works. My husband got a purple lava lamp. It’s perfect. We just sit and watch, look at each other, and say. “What? Me worry?”
Let’s start slow Jim…..work with me…
you put your left foot in…..you take your left foot out…
Mrs Editor . . . BAHAHAHHAAAAAA!!!
Dancin w/ Jim! Good times!
C’mon Alan…dont be shy…you can learn too.