Recap Thanksgiving

So has come and gone another Thanksgiving. I can honestly say that I can not remember a year that I have actually been so deeply thankful. My life is good. I am well taken care of.So it was a smaller crowd this year at the Eekhoff Thanksgiving Extravaganza. We had a huge lunch and it was delicious. Kudos to Grandma E. for a wonderful meal and endless...

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Lunch

Okay, so Pam has had the "Taste of the Holidays" put on my google calendar for a while now. Apparently Sam's club has a few days where they get all fancy with their samples and they have a whole ton of them. Pam made sure to instruct me not to plan anything on those days so that we could go to Sam's and eat. So yesterday for lunch we had Sam's.I have...

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Guilty Pleasures

Okay, so my wife just did some "confession time" in her blog. She challenged her readers to confess their own guilty pleasures. Here are a few of mine.1. I drove Emily's car home from Waterloo the other night after meeting with the in-laws for pizza. She was coming to our house and I thought it would be fun for her and Pam to spend some road time...

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My Wife

My wife rocksShe makes really really really good food.She looks really really really good.She smells really really really good.She is a really really really good mom.She is really really really smart.She is really really really awesome.I love her.Guess what. Even if she didn't do any of those things, or wasn't any of those things, I would still love...

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CD

Sunday was fun. I love Sundays because by noon I've put in eight hours and I can usually relax and hang with the fam. Anyway, Sunday we went to a CD release party at Calvary. Marcy Each released "Gravel Road". It has a strong blue grass feel to it and of course the vocals are beautiful. It was fun. I saw a lot of people I haven't seen for a long time...

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Ring Tones

Okay, so the only problem I ever had with my Palm Centro phone was that its stock ringtones suck and they didn't allow me to use mp3 files. That has all changed. I downloaded software called MiniTones to my phone which allows you to pull songs off of your computer, edit them, and use them as ringtones. So the following is a list of the ringtones I...

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Straight to the Truth

Thanks to my sister-in-law I was pointed to a transcript of a White House briefing that took place two days ago. I want to first describe my experience while reading it, and second share with you my favorite part of the briefing.As I read the briefing I was reminded of "The West Wing" and the briefings that took place with C.J. Craig. Thanks to that...

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How can we be so blind?

We think that we've come so far. We think that we have finally been able to look beyond race. I seriously for a moment thought that this election actually wasn't about race. However, if you were watching NBC tonight when they announced Obama the winner, they would not stop talking about the "victory over racism." We have been blinded by color? We...

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Election Night

A poem, by Joel RohdeTonight is the electionBob Dole has an erectionWe're waiting for ballot collectionMcCain would give us protectionI could not vote for ObamaHe kills babys and toasts OsamaHe resembles a mexican llamaHe is fake and creates shameless dramaBut no matter what happens in votingNo matter who will end up gloatingNo matter who to the white...

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