CONRATS TO CRAIG AND MIHOKO WHO ARE GETTING MARRIED AT THE UN ON MONDAY :-)-HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND EVERYONE, HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE POND ON MONDAY (WEATHER PERMITTING)
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Laura fixed the comments! Yeah Laura!
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LUNCH THIS AFTERNOON AT JOEY BUONA'S PIZZA KITCHEN-YUM YUM. HAVE LEFTOVERS FOR DINNER! TONIGHT WILL WATCH EITHER BILLY ELLIOT OR GANGS OF NEW YORK ON DVD-OR MY NEW EERIE, INDIANA DVD WHICH MAKES ME MUCHO HAPPY....ALSO GOT BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 6 LAST NIGHT, SO I HAVE ALL THAT TO GO THROUGH (ONLY ONE MORE SEASON TO GO *SNIFF*)

THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WE HAVE A GRADUATION PARTY TO GO TO ON SUNDAY AND MIKES ANNUAL B-DAY BASH FOR HIM AND DAN ON MONDAY-WHICH WE MAY GO TO (WEATHER PERMITTING)
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neverending house saga: the house across the street is in forclosure and according to the city the people were very close to being evicted and so they up and left in the middle of the night. The city is working with the bank to make them maintain the property! what the hell!
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Mr. Poytinger Retires
Posted: 05/09/2004
Please join us in honoring Mr. Poytinger as we salute his thirty-three years of dedicated service to Music Education in the Waukesha Community.

Mr. Poytinger received both Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Music Education degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has been a member of the music faculty in the School District of Waukesha since 1971. His teaching experience includes Director of Bands--South High School -- Central Campus 1971-74, Director of Bands -- North High School 1974-84, and K-12 Music Department Chairman 1984 -- present. In addition he has been a member of the band staff at West High School since 1993. During the time he has served as Department Chairman the music department has grown from 26 full and part-time faculty to 45 full-time staff members who provide music instruction to approximately 9,500 district students. At Waukesha West High School, Mr. Poytinger is a member of the marching band staff, and he is conductor of the Silver Concert Band.

Michael Poytinger has enjoyed a successful and rewarding career as a music teacher and department chair in the School District of Waukesha. Thanks to his leadership, insight, determination and tremendous dedication, the music program in the Waukesha School system is regarded by many to be the most successful and comprehensive in the entire State of Wisconsin. Although he will be retiring from the school district at the end of the 2003-2004 school year, the band staff at West will be asking for his assistance and expertise for many years to come.
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I LIVE NEXT TO A SLUM!

According to Julie Ford-Moody (she who knows all): I just went on the waukesha deed web page and your neighbors haven't paid
their 2003 taxes either...

just an fyi

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Odd Neighborhood Fact: Dateline Waukesha:

Our neighbors across the street have moved out and abandoned their house at 2700 Algoma Terrace. They have knee high grass/weeds, an uncovered full swimming pool (read breeding ground for disease ridden mosquitoes), and a dog shit covered backyard (they had a huge golden lab). I guess the house has been empty for months (?). My mom said "you can call the city and they will at least cut the grass and charge the owners on their p-tax bill." OK. So I call the city Building Deparment this AM and give them an address, 2702 Algoma Terr. The lady says "do you mean 2700?" I said, "sure, well why not, the house next to it is 2704.." She says "well we know that house, we have had numerous complaints and we are "working on the problem."

Well what the fuck does that mean??? How many people have to complain in my nice-reasonably upper middle class neighborhood?

This house is so bad that at the reunion this weekend, this guy Dale hadn't seen in 10 years knew exactly where we lived because he said "oh you live across the street from the dogshitgrass house." Thats fucking weak man.
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COMMENTS HAVE BEEN DISABLED WHILE I WORK OUT SOME KINKS WITH THE NEW TEMPLATE.

LOVE
MARY
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STILL RECOVERING FROM LACK OF SLEEP-I HAVE BEEN MONDO TIRED LATELY. DID ONE ROUND OF MW LAST NIGHT-NEW GUY SHOWED UP. DID SOME CLEANING OF KITCHEN (JOY). GIRLS TO GRANDMA'S TONIGHT SO WILL FINISH SOME HOUSEWORK AND MAYBE CHECK MY EMAIL FOR THE 1ST TIME IN A WEEK OR SO (WOW).

Other than that, I got nothing for today other than I passed out last night and woke up at 5:15 feeling that I hadnt slept at all.
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well according to Mikey, Dylan got his return ticket comped back home from the airline (thats good!) which I'm sure Dan didnt know when he called me on Sunday-at least I feel better about that....I called Dylan and left him a message so hopefully his job situation is A-OK. This is like the best job he's ever had that I can remember and I dont want him to f it up. So thanks for the update mike-yer off my shit list.
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LONG WEEKEND. I forgot how tiring it is to keep up with Dylan. He stayed at our house but didnt sleep there. The reunion was fun until the end when Dylan got his drink on, had an argument with dale and we left the bar (nice place actually) around 2:30....I got a call from Mikey around god knows when saying they would stop by to pick up his stuff, so I stayed up even later waiting for people to show up that never did- I guess Dylan showed up around 6:45am or something (thanks to Matt and Mark for dropping him off)...he was of course still drunk and seemed to think it was 4:30 am...he packed up his stuff and proceeded to lay down to sleep. I hauled his ass out of bed and into the car as we had to go to the airport.

Got him there in time and dropped his way way drunk arse off at the terminal.

Went home, canceled gaming as Dale had a migraine and I had 2 hours of sleep. Around 2 o clock the phone calls started from texas as it appears Dylan was so drunk that he passed out in a chair at the terminal and missed his flight. Dan called me at 3:30 saying that Dylan had just woken up from being passed out and called home.

It cost 600.00 to buy a new one way ticket home, and most likely Dylan will lose the job over this as he had to work at like 2pm.

So props to everyone who did'nt help Dale and I in getting Dylan to leave the bar at the end of the night when he should have left; and tahnks for taking him to whereever he was after the bar to drink some more, you know that fucking helped alot.

Thanks for making me look like an ass when I promised the Pedens I would make sure he came home on time.

This is my big rant. Im crabby, I'm suffering from lack of sleep and illness-The kids are sick and I'm pissed off at everybody.. Once I say my big, Fuck you very much I should feel better. There I feel better.

And I will be calling the Dylan and giving him hell too....

The party for my dad on Sunday night was very nice. It was a nice turnout. Took a sick day yesterday as I felt like hell.
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Hooray for Julie Ford Moody she has her own blog (which is nice and polkadotty!)
Visit her at
http://alljmoodys.blogspot.com
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Picked up Dylan last night, his flight was an hour late so we had to fight traffic pretty hard core coming in from the airport. Got some sausages and soda and grilled outside. Chatted with Jeff, Dale, Dylan, Tommy S and his wife Lia. Later on Mikey, Julie, and Dan showed up (Muench was driving back from Wausau) and took Dylan out, I assume to meet Matt and his wife.

Dylan never came home last night so I assume he's at Dan and Mike's now. Dr's appointment for the kids later this afternoon. Tonight I just want to sit at home and not move, I'm so tired!

The SBC workers are striking around the corner from where I work. Good Luck in those contract negotiations guys!
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Picked up Dylan last night, his flight was an hour late so we had to fight traffic pretty hard core coming in from the airport. Got some sausages and soda and grilled outside. Chatted with Jeff, Dale, Dylan, Tommy S and his wife Lia. Later on Mikey, Julie, and Dan showed up (Muench was driving back from Wausau) and took Dylan out, I assume to meet Matt and his wife.

Dylan never came home last night so I assume he's at Dan and Mike's now. Dr's appointment for the kids later this afternoon. Tonight I just want to sit at home and not move, I'm so tired!

The SBC workers are striking around the corner from where I work. Good Luck in those contract negotiations guys!
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It is a rainy crappy day. I learned today that because of all the rain we have had this month the city of Milwaukee has dumped 1.5 BILLION gallons of raw sewage into Lake Michigan. Remind me that I do not want to go swimming in the lake like, ever......ewww

Mya woke up at 2:30 am so I'm once again suffering from lack of sleep

Also learned today that Dale's Grandma on his dad's side has breast cancer and will need a breast removed. :( His Grandma is 83 but other than this she's pretty healthy. She won't need chemo or anything- Get Well Soon Grandma!

I have a facial appointment at lunch so I am looking forward to a 45 min catnap at Rouge! Picking up Dylan tonight so there will be much running around.
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DYLAN IS COMING TO TOWN!!!!!!!!! Dylan will be here Thursday Night at 3:20. Everyone is invited to our house Thursday night anytime after 6pm for grilled pork products on the grill and soda/beer and to chat with the Dylan. He will also be making an appearance at his HS reunion this weekend Saturday Night at Buck Bradleys in Milwaukee. See ya!
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Two things: 1. I am a winner this AM.. I won a signed copy of Frank Abignale's book "The Art of the Steal" from the conference I attended last week.

2. Congrats to all the samesexers in Mass. who are legally getting hitched this week. Good for you, now start paying the marriage tax like the rest of us.
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Holy heck was it a busy-arse weekend. Lets see, The band concert was really nice on Thursday-The piece that Rick wrote for my grandpa was very nice....The bands did a great job playing! The girls behaved well too!

Friday the girls spent with grandma-Friday night I had my Twins Group Meeting-I am in charge of fundraising for next year! I now have to scrounge some GOOD fundraisers and organize a Brewers Trip! Malinda stayed home with dad and had a crying/screaming fit (more on that later) and Mya went out for a fish fry with my parents.

Saturday morning Malinda woke up with red spots in her eyes and her face was all blotchy-went to the Dr. It appears her crying/screaming fit broke blood vessels in her eyes and face. Silly girly! She got a strep test (negative) and bloodwork (normal) so thats all good. Saturday afternoon we went to Grandmas and Grandma and Grandpa watched the girls overnight. Mom and Dad had a nice night to themselves. We also got to go to the store late late that night.

Sunday Dale mowed the lawn in the Am while I went to pick them up from the inlaws-we then went swimming later in the afternoon at Westwood with Grandma while Dale finished the lawn, and did some edging and cleaned the grill.

We stopped up at West to see the MB practice. Then we grilled out sausages and ate outside while the girls played on the grass.

Last night no one wanted to sleep (especially MYA!) because MYA is cutting tooth #2!!!!!!

This AM they decided to wake up at 4:30 am so I'm surviving only on like 5 hours sleep and a large Breakfast Blend from Stone Creek Coffee.

MW on Tuesday night, nothing for the rest of the week until Saturday which is Dale's reunion down here in Milwaukee. I'm sure that will be-interesting.

Today's quote: "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared"-Eddie Rickenbacher
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Anyone that would like to attend my Dad's last Band Concert at West before he retires, where they are playing a piece my family had commissioned for my Grandfather (he died almost 3 years ago), is welcome to attend Waukesha West High School tonight at 7pm. :)
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GREATEST-DVD-PURCHASE-EVER. They have a dvd with 4 episodes of my all time favorite TV show (next to The Greatest American Hero, Muppet Show, and Twin Peaks) Eerie, Indiana! Yessss! Nicest 6.99 Ive ever spent.
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Mya broke through with her 1st tooth today! Hooray for Mya. She's one step away from eating apples and whatnot. :)
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Yea fixed code, look at me I'm a freaking Haxor. Bah.

Spent last night at Hobbytown with Dale, Scott and Malinda.....Took off early as the baby was tired....went home earlier than usual, got Malinda to sleep (perhaps the newness of sleeping in Mya's crib vs her own) and managed to catch the last 45 in of my TV show while I went through a weeks worth of daycare forms etc....and managed to get them in some sort of order (ie not in a nuclear pile on the floor/table/counter/shelf).

Dale and I then went nuts washing the bottles/dishes/stove and filling up tomorrows (today) bottles for daycare....

Managed to also get a book read (One for the Money by Janet Evanovich) and try to crack out a few chapters of Al Frankin (while I cracked up)

Tonight Dale is getting his hair cut by Jen (and maybe colored...who knows?!) while Mya and I have some Mommy and Me time...if its nice, I think a walk to the park for some swingtime is in order.

we have no less than 5 retirement parties to attend in the next 3 weeks. arg!
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bah
messed up my html code with the comments now I have to backtrack to see where i mucked up. I hate having to do that.

note to self, diaper genie smells like azz.
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Had a nice lunch with Muench....have Mikey's annual shindig on Memorial day to look fwd to...also have to sell mikeys mechs....(hope mark remembers to bring um to jeffs next time he stops by!) Had fun sitting out on the terrace watching people canoe the river!
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Well arent I loving the new blogger which actually works better on this Mac I have at work...I can use the easy post options etc...yippie for me. Busy Sunday...Mall for group pictures with the girls (turned out well), girls to grandmas for the afternoon, hung out with Dustin for the afternoon (francis was Busy or something....)

Lunch with Muench today, I'm thinking John Hawk's Pub http://www.johnhawkspub.com for Fish and Chips...Yum.... Also get to head to the gym tonight for the 1st time in 2 weeks, I plan on hitting the weights and the precor EFX thingymawabbie for a half hour as I laugh my arse off reading "Lies and the Lying Liars...." by Al Frankin....cracking my shite up...seriously.... Other than that no plans for today other than watching ABC butcher one of my all time fav. kids books "A wrinkle in Time."
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hola mis chickas and chickos...googled for the hell of it tonight and low and behold i popped into a webblog of an old pal....check out which is run by an old old pal, Damon Payne...We can safely say that without the existence of one Damon Payne we would have checked into the "throwing a major temper tantrum" bin sometime in 1994-1995.

It appears that he is the proud parent of one small and walking, Brooke. Why does everyone I know give birth to girlchildren? Who the hell is going to marry my daughters?

Anywho it appears several old faces also post on there every now and again... which is like old home week or something....so hey damon if he pops by.

Watched another Netflix Hugh Grant movie tonight, Love Actually-It was brittish and thats all. We have Wallace and Grommit and "Dickie Roberts" coming next week. Mona lisa Smile sucks more as it sinks in...off to read a book....

Oh for those that asked I have read in the last week:

The Smiths and beyond, 2 Mysteries by Joanne Pence, Both books by Anne Brasheries "The Summer of the Traveling Pants" and Second Summer of the Sisterhood". starting on a Rita Mae Brown mystery and at the same time Ed Sikons seminal work "on sunset blvd" which is the bio of Billy Wilder, the director. Chow-Chow. meb
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Personal note to Miniksan if he drops by...: They are opening a new sushi restaurant around the corner from where I work (so its like right around the corner from the Pfister going west towards grand ave on Milwaukee (i think the cross street is milwaukee, either that or Michigan....whatever) called (and I shit you not) SAKI TUMI.

I'm gearing up to have lunch there when it opens but im 100% sure the food will not be as good as : A: Nobu, B: Morimoto's or C: and sushi you could get over there in Japan.... and Im also reasonably sure there will be no uni on the menu...
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Well thanks to Kristy for informing us of the birth of the new addition to the kid-brood! Welcome Olivia, daughter of Jim and Crystal! Yippie for them!!!! :)
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I WENT TO A CONFERENCE GIVEN BY US BANK YESTERDAY ABOUT FRAUD. THE GUEST SPEAKER WAS FRANK ABIGNALE (HIS LIFE STORY WAS FICTIONALIZED IN "CATCH ME IF YOU CAN" WITH LEONARDO DICAPRIO) HE WAS AN EXCELLENT SPEAKER....ITS UNREAL HOW EASY IT IS TO FORGE CHECKS AND TECHNOLOGY HAS ONLY MADE IT EASIER. I HAD A GOOD TIME LISTENING TO HIM SPEAK.

AFTER THE CONFERENCE I TOOK MYSELF OUT FOR LUNCH AT JOHN HAWKS PUB HTTP://WWW.JOHNHAWKSPUB.COM AND HAD FISH AND CHIPS (VERY VERY TASTY!)

WATCHED THE 3RD TO LAST ANGEL LAST NIGHT, WAS BITCHIN GOOD, ALSO WATCHED "MONA LISA SMILE" WHICH DIDNT SUCK AS BAD AS I THOUGHT IT WOULD SUCK. GOD BLESS NETFLIX, WE WATCHED INTOLERABLE CRUELTY LAST WEEKEND AND WE HAVE SCHOOL OF ROCK FOR TONIGHT (I THINK ILL SKIP THE FRIENDS FINALE, WHATEVER....) BEFORE ER COMES ON!

THIS WEEKEND-PICTURES AND GAMING ON SUNDAY AND IM SURE WE HAVE SOMETHING TO DO ON SATURDAY, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT.....:)
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Well fun day today! reconnected with two old coworkers (hey julie Hey shannon) have decided we need to have an ex-ge lunch group-we just need to get minik back from japan (hey mike!) Shannon starts her new job on monday at medical college of wi and julie now works downtown in the treasurers office as a manager-Go Julie! Shannons son Gage will be 1 year old on March 14th and Julies son Jacob is 16 months-how time flys....

still waiting on word from Jim and Crystal to see if their daughter has been born yet....May is a busy ass month, dales 10 year in 3 weeks, picture day, mothers day, gaming day, getting ready for the nationals trip day....sheesh, im sure i can book some sleep time?

wed i get to listen to Frank Abignale speak on Fraud (frank was the subject of "catch me if you can" the leonardo decaprio/tom hanks movie)...that should be cool!
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