Turkey Day 2006

This Thanksgiving, I have a lot to be thankful for. While my blog may not talk about half of the great things that are happening in my life, I assure you that they are indeed there. This year has seen me and Liz move from sunny San Diego to temperate Denver, a great job that I actually enjoy going to everyday, the start of my MBA studies and now, a real live niece! I am truely thankful for all of these things.

This Thanksgiving was a smashing success. Given that the Christmas holidays are just weeks away and we will be going home at that time, we decided to have Thanksgiving at home here in Colorado. Our friends Andy and Jennie were also not going home to California, so we were determined to have the best low stress holiday ever!

As you can see by the photographic evidence, the evening was great! Mom helped out tremendously via telephone and video conference (ask me how!) and the stuffing was something that my Grandma would have been proud to eat.

This last photo really encapsulates Thanksgiving for me. This is a picture of the video chat that I had with my sister and her new daughter Janelle. Ain't technology grand?

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

requiem for an iPod

Chris Arehart's iPod, 3 1/4 years old, was lost into the great beyond on Sunday the 19th of November, in New York City, New York.

Chris's iPod traveled extensively throughout its brief life, having been at his master's side on a near daily basis. Chris's business travel required his iPod to be ready at a moment's attention, armed with a steady supply of Coltrane, Dave Matthews and The Beatles--played loud enough to drown out the most determined baby travelers and talkative fellow passengers alike. It seems fitting that Chris's iPod was lost on assignment, having been brought into this world solely to provide for distraction during a week-long business road trip with Chris's boss.

Chris's iPod was loyal, hardworking and a credit to Steve Job's name. Never ill, or infected with a terminally weak battery which seemed to afflict so many like him, his extended warranty was claims free at time of his passing.

As we mourne the loss of Chris's iPod, we can take comfort in the fact that the purser of United flight 700 to Laguardia is able to offset her recently reduced pension plan with a lucrative career as an eBay reseller.

Services were carried out on Friday, the 24th at the Best Buy in Lone Tree, CO, where a new, 80 gig black Video iPod was brought into this world to carry the torch left behind by our departed friend. Overseeing the ceremony was Mitch, who in his infitite wisdom upon hearing the tale of Chris's iPod's last days, was quoted as saying "Wow. That sucks."

Yes, Mitch. It does indeed suck.

In lieu of flowers or symapthy cards, please redirect charity in the form of cash, check, international money order or paypal to Chris.

The Man..named? U.N.C.L.E

On Thursday, November 16th, 2006, at 11:29am a new person was brought into this world. With her husband by her side and her family waiting with bated breath down the hall, my sister Michelle gave birth to her first child, Janelle Fuller.




More later on this, but I thought that I would get some pictures up there for you all! mom is doing well and is now at home.