Birthday Weekend

This weekend was my birthday, and I must say, turning 25 turned out to be great. My mom came to visit for the weekend, which was great since I hadn’t seen her since Christmas. I took a half day off work and we went to the yarn shop in Parkersburg after she got [...]

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Back from Chicago

I’m back from the Windy City.  I was there from Friday until Monday for the American Library Association annual convention.  The convention was great, though completely overwhelming.  The hotels were several miles from the actual convention center, so getting between the two involved lots of shuttle buses.  I wont bore you with the librarian-centric details, [...]

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Weekend in Madison

I spent this last weekend in Madison. It’s odd to think that a place that I lived for six years has now become a place that I visit for long weekends. I did have a great time though, aside from the trip there. Some storms in Milwaukee delayed my flight into Madison, [...]

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Adventure in Columbus

I told Jake that I would get him home beer brewing supplies as a birthday present, so we made a trip to Columbus today to check out a wine and beer making shop. The owner was very helpful, and we ended up getting a kit with all the essential equipment the ingredients for making [...]

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Mexico – Day 2

The weather in Mexico (at least where we were) is gorgeous, but this particular day was great. This picture is of the gigantic pool complex from our deck on that morning. For some reason I can’t remember what we did most of the day on Saturday, but I think it was mostly hang [...]

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Mexico – Day 1

Instead of knocking myself out writing about our whole Mexican vacation, I’m going to break it into smaller bits.
The first day was Friday and travel day.  Fortunately, we didn’t have any serious problems.  Things were a little dicey when we first got to the Columbus airport though.  We left the house by 3:15am (after about [...]

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