interesting post and comments here:

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/less_hyphen_more_burst_for_wal.php

Shoulder, knee only…no toes nor head =)

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The hit song of the week….Shoulder Knee.

Check it out!

And here’s the one that sparked it all.

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We descended upon Cincinnati and the Creation Museum last weekend.

More pics here:

http://flickr.com/photos/legosdream/sets/72157605951820317/

We ate, slept-in, played games, swam (some of us did at least), visited the Creation Museum, cooked out at Dean’s, ate, slept-in, ate some more…

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Beautiful day for rugby!

Awesome game with the Saxons victorious over the Scotland A side, 36-19.

Nice to see a bunch of folks with their red white blue and red rose jerseys.

Gotta love the game, miss playing it.

More pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/legosdream/sets/72157605822605335/

Great visuals.

Loved the mechatronics assembly as he suits up.

RD jr was great.

Sweet Audi too.

Nice styling similarity between the R8′s front/headlights and Iron Man’s mask/eye features.

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On a slight tangent…if some of the old school automakers would have perhaps an exchange or a cross discipline charette with creatives from other fields it would benefit them greatly.

Save us from the soul-less, lumps of eye sores that ply the streets of America.

Mel enjoyed the movie too though Baby Mama could have soiled it all. =)

Thanks Panera…no thanks ComEd

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We still have no power…since Thursday afternoon after the crazy storms here in Chi-town. =(

ComEd said that it would be restored by this Saturday morning 11am.

Guess we are spoiled.

Its not bad really.

This is nothing compared to the many disasters that come to mind in the recent history….nothing.

Candles and flashlights are our best friends…and matches of course.

And of course Panera for their free wifi…of course their pick 2s were great too…the summer salads (strawberry poppy chicken and the mozarella salads) are great.

So we have our Nokia phones charged up for the day and so is the MBP….we are set….until tomorrow that is. We’ll just power-hop.

Little conveniences we take for granted.

Gave us a chance to discover the joys of playing gin by candlelights.

Bliss.

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So they have been shooting the next Batman sequel The Dark Night around Chicago lately…in fact they have been shooting in and around our building the past week or so.

A nice little excursion downstairs this afternoon to see what they were up to. Think they were just testing out the Dark Knight model/dummy. The curious crowds just kept hanging (no pun intended) around to see what else would happen. Nothing.

When I was leaving work later on, they were still getting ready to shoot some scene with all the extras in position…and waiting….still no Christian Bale. Guess we’ll have to wait till next year to see the actual scene.

They were also temporary laser printed signs all over the plaza at our building directing the staff to “Set”, “Breakfast” etc…that’s nice to see coming to work in the morning.

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Moleskine Page

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This has got to be the best cookie fortune that I have come across in a while.

Every now and then I think about the mighty moolah…the greenback, you know money $$$…kaching, cha-ching…gimme some o dat bling bling….

My thoughts tend to gravitate towards the lack thereof….or the lust for more I should say.

Its funny, becos’ in my daily reading, I was sharing with Mel that verse in Proverbs about how wealth is describe as having wings like eagles…(Prov. 23:5)…interesting….sounds like someone’s trying to tell me something….

So about a year or so ago, I made an investment that would be considered very wise…yup last time I checked, the diamond’s still there…a well crafted ring. I’d like to report that the ring the diamond’s attached to, is more importantly, still attached to the person that reciprocated my investment.

1 year 1 day 11hours and 30 minutes later….we are enjoying married life more and more each day…we sleep, eat, play…do everything and do nothing together…if its not too much to say, we do everything together and we enjoy it.

Its great to do the normal and usual stuff together…like going to work everyday, but what makes it better is coming home from that long work day and spending our short but sweet evenings together.

Though some things we can do without like the fights and those long business trips that I had been taking lately to Dubai. Actually, Mel’s in Michigan for a conference/workshop today and tomorrow. All these make the coming home and the making up much much sweeter…it makes us appreciate the other more…it makes me realize how far from perfect we are and how much grace we need from the other…

So this past weekend we celebrated our first year of bliss by doing what’s most important, spending time together. We had some nice quiet dinners….on Friday we went to the neighborhood Italian place and sat outside for dinner…it was nice out.

Saturday was a real treat, since we rarely “go out” =)

We went over to the Green Dolphin Street…had some dinner and then later on adjourned to their jazz club area for some live music…the Baritones were playing (rhythm and blues)…the food was good..mel had the beet salad followed by the steak and crab cake entree…i started with the spinach salad and the rack of lamb…we were stuffed after all that…

We spent most Sunday, the actual day of our anniversary at church and later on we spent some time with the youth working on the upcoming conference Uprising…www.uroth.org

Much too much has happened this year…happy, sad…its been such a blessing to see the timing of things and how everything fell into place…can’t imagine going through this past year “alone”…

Here’s to many more to come…

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Okay…so yesterday chris and I went to the American Girl store with my cousins and their little darlings on Michigan Avenue. We were in awe of the marketing scheme and how they know how rake it in…the dough that is. But i was disappointed because there were no dolls that looked like me or my dear little niece Aesha who has inherited my curly locks! I say we just boycott them altogether. Who says girls with curls are cute adorable dolls.

My motto has always been…when God gives you a perm it will last your entire life…so you might as well enjoy it.

Your Travel Profile:

You Are Extremely Well Traveled in the Midwestern United States (100%)You Are Well Traveled in the Southern United States (46%)You Are Well Traveled in the Northeastern United States (43%)You Are Somewhat Well Traveled in Canada (40%) You Are Somewhat Well Traveled in the Western United States (32%) You Are Somewhat Well Traveled in the Middle East (25%) You Are Somewhat Well Traveled in Western Europe (21%) You Are Mostly Untraveled in Asia (17%) You Are Mostly Untraveled in the United Kingdom (13%) You Are Mostly Untraveled in Southern Europe (7%) You Are Untraveled in Africa (0%) You Are Untraveled in Australia (0%) You Are Untraveled in Eastern Europe (0%) You Are Untraveled in Latin America (0%) You Are Untraveled in New Zealand (0%) You Are Untraveled in Scandinavia (0%)

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chris showed this to me and i was curious…how would i rank as a world traveler? this is fun…but both of us agree our asia ranking would be higher if Singapore was one of the options!

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