time for a new heater

there comes a time in every home owner's life when they have to replace a major item...like an oil burner heater system. today is that day for me. it'll be around$2K. thank god for Rufus's connections. he really came through on this one. so hopefully, in about 8 hrs, we will have a new system. the old one is originally equipment with the house (ug). wish me luck :)

email...email...email

remind me why we need email again...oh that's it, so we can all send each other funny jokes! i hope my email box, both at work and at home, starts to grow some ai so that it can filter out all the crap that I get. spam filtering just can't keep up with forwarded "funny" emails from my family and friends. i don't want to blacklist them but sometimes i feel the need to do so.

The Boyfriend

my little girl was absolutely terrific in her first leading role performance as Polly in the play "The Boyfriend". watching her up there made me so proud. she worked very hard to get the role and came thru like a shining star! her friends, Stephany and Allie also perfromed wonderfully. i can hardly wait for her next performance!

Son off to College.

well its that time of year again and my oldest is off to college for his 2nd year. we are taking the entire family, abbey, uncle tim, Mo and Morgan on this trip. everything is packed in the van and ready to go. sarah had the chance to wish anthony well wishes. she was her usual emotional self. i think we will keep her! got to go!

North Jersey Sucks

what else can I say. it's so very true. it's so obvious. it's so smelly! throughout my trips to north jersey, i have had to put up with all the traffic and all the smog. i don't know people enjoy life up here. if i only never had to drive up to north jersey again...oh what a joy that would be.

My first haircut - Bernie

well we did it! the triplets went down to Ocean City and met with Bernie and what a treat it was. Peter was able to track him down and have us meet him at the shop. of course it wasn't not the exact same shop we had our first haircut in but who cares, Bernie was there. the shop had 3 chairs (original old style barber chairs). Bernie showed us the picture he had up on the wall and it was the same one mom and dad had. we (the triplets) signed his photo and I had him sign ours. we took some pictures and talked about grandfather a lot. Bernie had a lot of respect for grandfather and it showed when he told us his stories. we also swapped email addresses and phone numbers. what a special day! Thanks Bernie :)

Family gathering...

well we (siblings) got together yesterday at mon & dad's for a geat feast. it was good to see Jimmy and Paul! everyone is doing great. we also got a chance to take some photos. i have already distributed them via Picasa. it looks like Paul and Jimmy and i are also going to hit the Ocean City barber shop (Bernies) and catch up with Bernie himself. i am bring my camera so that we can take some additional photos. we are meeting at Pete and Mo's shore vacation house first then going over to the shop. more later...

allpeers

needs to get photos from kat's siblings. trying product called allpeers. it installs as firefox plug-in..prety cool. interface and functions are good. i'll let u know how it turns out. have 2 weeks until poppy b-day event so i should have enough time.

going to see Paul and Jimmy today. should be at mom and dad's around 3pm. Paul came in yesterday and Jimmy flying in today. more later.

scan, scan, scan...

my life is scanning. i scan this. i scan that. i scan more of this and then i scan more of that. Grandpop's going to have a BIG collection of photos...and for that matter so is everyone else. oh well, back to scanning this and that.

hey there GIRL

just got a FB request from my girl Haylie. she's IM'n and FB'n all over the place. this girl's got to major in technology when she get's older. almost done here at the office. i wonder if matt grew any taller today...hmmm

tgif

mfon better be ready at 5:30p cause i got to get to my daughter's play on time tonight. poppy's t-shirt is coming along. more scanning of pictures this weekend for 70th b-day party at EJ's.

at work

took 1.5 hrs to get into Philly last night. was late getting to Kelsie's play. play started at 7p, got their around 8p. oh well. the play "into the woods" was good but long. i was starving. had to wait until 10p to eat and that wawa shepard's pie did the trick. ant went to Hersey all day yesterday. matt...i have no idea what he did. anyway..today's no bad...staying put in office working on client stuff. going to see Paul and Jimmy this weekend (sunday). ngsyl