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    2011 MLB Season

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    Manny rumors are that he's looking at the O's, because of his past relationship with Dan Duquette. Frankly, as disappointed as I am with Manny for his antics the last year he was with the red sox, I think he'd be a good match up for the O's who, frankly, could use some more crazy personalities to sell tickets to that great stadium. Although I do believe that the Oriole's wholesale routing of the red sox at the end of the 2011 season hopefully will help them fill up that ball park. It is a great place to see a game.

    Getting Hitched! (elope or no?) What was your wedding like?

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    You weirdos and your internet marriages. :wave

     

    Caliber and I had a lovely day that was absolutely perfect in every way, from those who were there and family and weather and just perfect, but i would have really preferred to spend the $ (a little over 5K almost all of which was spent on full buffet food w/ carving stations etc and beer and wine and all the staff, plus covered the cost of all the food and drink for the local party in RI as well so food for about 100 in NC and food for about 50 in RI) on a really awesome honeymoon trip. We covered the cost of our own wedding which was outside on a lovely day in June in NC, and interestingly cost the same as my first wedding about a million years before. But I think that Caliber's family would have been bummed to miss a family event, as he is the youngest grandchild and there's a lot to be said for making your family happy.

     

    Caliber's family was a huge help and it probably was the best opportunity to get to meet most of them, and for that i wouldn't trade anything. My family's politics is a lot different from his family's btw, and yet they all just adored each other and had a great time. His family even came up for the RI party so they could meet all my friends.

     

    Ways we saved money:

    • We used an iPod for background music at the reception (no dancing)
    • We did all the flowers (except for bouquets and boutineers etc) ourselves
    • We borrowed stuff from family (like a garden arch and stuff)
    • We bought the linens for the tables and now my mother in law uses them for church functions (a lot cheaper than renting, btw!)
    • We had VCers help make our over 1000 origami cranes! (this was the best part, well, that and Edie's endless Wilco-inspired toast)
    • Caliber got the wine and beer with his discount at the wine store
    • We hired a local guy who played music (electric piano) for the ceremony (Orange Sky and a nice classical piece) for so cheap! He was just really glad we asked!

     

    Sarah, do you still work at the zoo/aquarium? Why not see if you can have a party there? Especially if that is where you met? and you're in the south--you can totally have a church service and then awesome punch and cake and probably get family to donate punch and cake.

     

    I'm sorry I haven't been around much so I don't know a lot about what most of you are doing these days, but please feel free to send me a message if you need help with anything. xoxo

    It's Christmas time!!!

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    I am not sure i can give Lammy's old lady reason to go to the woods and cut down a tree in the national forest, although I suppose it is a little like culling the deer population so that they remain healthier...perhaps select cutting of national forest trees keeps it healthy for everyone and maybe keeps the low brush down (which is safer regarding forest fires)

     

    But i do know that getting at tree at a tree farm is a great way to do the following: support local businesses, keep people employed over the winter months (a lot of landscapers do tree farming and plowing in the winter), maintain really really really important open space for wildlife (and human life). Tree farming requires very little water, generally, and almost no fertilizer and can use very rocky, relatively unuseable land (that is for other agriculture.) Christmas tree farming is pretty sustainable, has a relatively small carbon footprint and trees are often recycled/reused as mulch in many municipalities, including Denver. If her issue is "killing a tree" does that means she doesn't use paper, or cardboard, or post-it-notes, ever? Also, fake trees sometimes have offgassing issues, and the ones that come from china (hello carbon footprint) are tied together internally with a hell of a lot of lead. Bad bad bad for kids, lead poisoning.

     

    Anyway, Lammer, good luck. Hope that helps your cause. Go live or die trying.

    One of my cats is very unhappy as part of my family

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    There are a lot of illnesses that can manifest in a cat that a vet wouldn't pick up on in a routine exam. You should take her back to discuss the behavioral issues and have them run the appropriate tests before you dump her. It might be something as simple as a cycle on some antidepressants. or maybe her thyroid is out of whack. But you won't know until you take her in for this specific issue.

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