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Ho! Ho! Who?
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I also found a few good articles and blogs about people's experiences and advice. Some made sense, and some didn't, so I threw the filters on and took a long step backwards through my mind and the years to recall as best I could what it was like for me to see Santa at the malls and sit on his lap. It was an interesting retrospective, but a necessary one in order to think about what I should do and not do. One theme that ...
At Ollivander's
... you know, you don't pick the boot, the boot picks you". Yeah, I have heard that before... in a MOVIE ! That wasn't very helpful. And I don't speak Boot.
After about 1 hour or so, I found a pair each for both Shilpa and I. At the checkout counter, I did tell the guy how cheesy that line sounded although it did have some truth.
The boots are on their way to Kirkland now. Let's see if they pick Shilpa.
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Pretty Much The Ocean
... half, still pretty soaked, waiting for our cinema to open. Kelsey was transfixed for a good portion of that hour and a half by the hypnotic visuals playing on the screen across from us, while I just read the Alamo Drafthouse movie guide magazine. Soon enough we were ferried into the cinema and took our (reserved) seats. In front of each row of chairs is a bench for food and drinks and things like that, so Kelsey and I ordered some ...
Austin, TX: The Unusual Nature of Austin
... been to West Chester, PA. From them I learned that Austinites have an unusual use of the English language. They call sections of a dam-off river "a lake" when it's actually a reservoir. They don't see thIs body of water as a continuous entity even though it flows for 862 miles southeastward the Gulf of Mexico -- making it the 18th longest river in the States. So if you mention to them that you live by the river, their reaction will most ...
Anniversary Weekend!
... uncle later that evening, and he invited us to go see my aunt Kathy sing with her choir group “Conspirare” performing with the Austin Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night. We jumped on the offer! Then we decided to go to the local Wal-Mart and get some toiletries that we needed, and a bottle of Champagne. We headed back to the hotel, ordered more room service for dinner, popped the bottle of bubbles and watched a movie.
We woke up the next ...