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Celebrating the Uncles

24 August 2008 0 Comments

There were two reasons to celebrate this weekend, and there were two uncles present. Do the math (unless you already got your inference from the title). My mom’s older brother, Kevin, celebrated his 50th birthday, which is actually on Monday. Also, my mom’s younger brother, Stephen, was with us momentarily via Microsoft Live! webcam from [...]

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Happy Grill Day! Er, I mean, birthday!

3 December 2007 0 Comments

Yes, ’tis true — ol’ Matthew had to wait exactly 25 years before he got his very own barbecue grill. Jessica and my mom were in cahoots together, and what a fine job they did! My brother and his chick gave me a set of “tools” to prevent me from having to turn over steaks [...]

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House-warming gift

11 April 2007 0 Comments

What’s better than successfully buying your first house? Getting a “Congratulations!” card in the mail from your parents with a $50 gift card to Lowe’s inside! Jessica and I have been to that store a dozen times since we moved in, and it’s guaranteed that we’ll be back very soon, so the gift card was [...]

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Christmas with family

27 December 2005 Comments Off

One of the best Xmas get-togethers I’ve ever shared was with family this weekend. It was just “us” — Mom, Sam, Jonathan, Jacyra and me. We were all particularly happy to have Jacyra join us — it was the first time we’ve all been together since, well, you know what.

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Busy weekends

7 January 2005 Comments Off

I got to see my parents two weekends in a row. I gave Sam a DVD player for X-mas — a little something to add to his home theater system. When I first arrived in Lubbock, he asked me if I’d be willing to take a look at the systems and figure out why the [...]

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Life is getting better

9 June 2004 Comments Off

Life is getting much better, and I’d like to thank my mom for it. My new job here is taking forever to get set, and because of this money has been a huge worry of mine. The original apartment we intended to move into was going to get too expensive, and I wasn’t sure I’d [...]

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