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David, Catherine and Josh came over this afternoon and we went across the street to play in the park. Here are some pictures…

This video is about 5 of my favorite pictures that I took sometime over the past 2 years. For each picture, I describe the story behind each shot. Here you go… enjoy!

It’s my birthday today!!! I’m certainly feeling a little older today… so much that I think it’s time to start getting on a more rigorous workout plan… a.k.a. start working out altogether. Thanks for everyone who has sent me Happy Birthday wishes over the past coupe days (special shout out to my Dentist and the folks at Leopard Hills… I always like when you get a happy birthday message from the people you least expect).

Here are some other people that share my birthday…
James Carville, Jr (Democratic political consultant)
Bobby Knight (basketball coach)
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Pablo Picasso

Carolyn is taking me out to Second City tonight which should be fun.

Steve

So here’s a really, really funny story…

For the past 5 months Carolyn and I have wanted a Nintendo Wii. We probably have gone into Best Buy and Circuit City about 25 times checking to see if they had any new shipments. And every time, the answer was “no, check back in a week or two and we may have some coming in”.

So for her birthday, which is on October 27, I figured it would be a really cool gift If I could manage to find one. Well… this
Saturday I was able to find one at Circuit City. I just got lucky with timing since they had just received a shipment the day before. What’s funny is they really didn’t want to tell me they had them. I actually played dumb in speaking to one of the sales guys and I said, I heard you just got a shipment in… he looked back at me like “how do yo know we just got a shipment in?”. He directed me to the store manager, who had the same look on his face, but was very nice and said he could get me one which was in the wharehouse. So I got my Wii and I was really excited to surprise Carolyn for her birthday.

So.. I’m having a conversation with Carolyn in the car on Sunday and she tells me how excited I’m going to be for my birthday this year. We’re still finalizing dinner plans, so she tells me that when I get my present I may want to spend some time with it later that night… so we opt for a dinner on another night. We’re going to Japonais, but that’s not important… back to the story. So I’m thinking about what she means by the comment that “I’ll want to spent time with the gift” and I’m thinking there’s no way she was able to find a Wii. So now we’re starting to suspect each other is up to something for the rest of the day… and then on Sunday night, when I was at the Bruce Springsteen concert, she found an email when she opened up my computer that said Nintendo Wii in the subject line (this was someone on craigslist that I was emailing back and forth on) [For the record, I'm not 100% she wasn't snooping around, but I will give her the benefit of the doubt.]

Earlier today at work we talk to each other and both admit that we both think something funny has happened, but we will not say what has happened, since we’re both mad that we thought we had the perfect gift for each another. She calls me at the end of the day and says she wants to grab a bite at Bijan’s. I get there around 6pm and she give’s me a card and says happy birthday. She then takes out a package from under the table an it’s a Nintendo Wii. We both start laughing and start to tell the whole story of how we ended up finding one. Carolyn ended up getting hers on ebay about a week ago and had it shipped to my parents condo.

We unpacked one of the Wiis tonight and played for about 45 minutes. It was really fun and well worth the wait.

Just got back from the Bruce Springsteen concert over at the United Center. It was my first Bruce Springsteen concert and I was impressed by how much energy Bruce has at 60 years of age. He also had a really nice theme about being American and I couldn’t help but a feel a sense of pride about this country. We take for granted so much about the freedom we have to do whatever we want and to achieve. I was reminded of this tonight and for that I thank Bruce. And my brother David, who asked me to go as an early birthday gift. Here are some pictures from tonight’s concert.

It’s almost here, so Carolyn and I started to decorate for the big holiday. We’re excited because this is the first year we have our own house and we’ll actually get trick or treaters this year. We’ve both lived in condos for so long, we’ve gotten used to not having people over for Halloween. Here are some pictures of the decorations.

Carolyn had some house guests this weekend. Ginger flew in from New york and Nikki drove over all the way from Lincoln Park. I was not officially part of “girls weekend” (with the exception of watching the movie Preminition) so I had the house to myself for most of the weekend. Kind of felt like a bachelor again. Here are some picture of the three ladies.

p.s. congratulations Nikki… you finally made it to the blog!

I scored some major points two days ago when I surprised Carolyn with an early birthday / almost sweetest day flower bouquet. I bought her 2 dozen roses… one dozen red for love, and one dozen white for friendship. I’m hoping this will keep me out of trouble for at least 4-6 weeks.