Yay to Me

I really wasn't expecting it this year, even though I have done many great things, but apparently the people at Time Magazine feel I deserve it. I am Time Magazine's Person of the Year.

Happy Birthday Matt

Happy Birthday Matthew Marie

Matthew is my oldest nephew and he turns 11 years young today. Here are 10 things you probably didn't know about Matthew.

10. He isn't allowed to go to a public school, so his parents enrolled him in a charter school.
9. When he was a baby his head tasted very much like a peanut.
8. I am by far his favorite uncle, he has told me numerous times and regardless of what he says now, it still is true.
7. Matt has black and brown belts in all sorts of marshal arts, but I can still whoop his butt in a fight. His younger brother Andy can also bring him to his knees with a shot to the junk.
6. Matthew has more beanie babies then hairs on his head. He has to sleep on the floor because his bed is so full of stuffed animals.
5. He has come up with more funny sayings then anyone I know. "Sharp knife-shovel", "head back...just water" and "mint gum" are just a few of my favorite.
4. Matthew received a "check-minus" in scissor usage during kindergarten. Luckily his Mom was a Creative Memories Consultant and was able to talk to his principal and get the teacher fired and the grade changed.
3. Matthew loves babies more then anyone I know, except for his Grandma. He is also the only Kurt cousin I would trust to watch Libby.
2. Matthew always carries a nickel around in his pocket. When he sees someone who looks sad, he gives them his nickel and does a funny little jig. It always makes that person smile.
1. I bought Matthew his first pet the day after his younger brother Andrew was born. The goldfish died soon after.

The Poster

Beth is in Orlando this weekend at the ASH Conference. It is the largest and most prestigous of all of the hemotology conferences. She was chosen to present a poster that had something to do with pediatric cancer (I am sure she told me 50 times what it was about, but I wasn't listening). Now when I heard that she was presenting a poster, I assumed it would be a little piece of poster board with a graph and a few pictures. The poster she made was incredible, it was 4 feet by 8 feet long and had a ton of information I didn't understand. Since she had never presented a poster like she she asked one of her fellow Fellows for some advice. The first thing that the Fellow said was "Don't forget your poster".

Flash back to Friday night. I had just got done talking to the cops and letting them know that the burglar alarm was a false alarm when I got a phone call from Beth, who I had just dropped off at the airport. She as sitting on the plane and remembered that she didn't have her poster with her. In all the confusion of me rushing to drop her off and get home to see if we had been robbed, Beth left her poster in the trunk. So after a few frantic calls to Kinko's I found one that would except Fed-Ex packages up until 10 p.m. for next day delivery. So I re-bundled Libby up and drove out to Kinko's and for the low price of $55, the poster was at Beth's hotel by 9:30 a.m.

Must See

Set your VCRs or DVRs for Larry King Live tonite at 9 p.m. EST (8 p.m. CST), or just watch it with all the commercials like a sucker. Larry is having Marlo Thomas along with some of the families, patients, and doctors from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on tonight. It is the kick-off to the Thanks AND Giving fund raising Campaign. Be sure to have some kleenex on hand as you will for sure shed some tears. When you see and hear the amazing life changing things they are doing at St. Jude's, it will help you to understand why Beth and I moved away from friends and family to this crime-ridden city. If you want to make the show into a fun drinking game, take a shot everytime Marlo Thomas has to correct Larry King from calling it the "Thanksgiving Campaign".

False Alarm

This evening as I was dropping Beth off at the airport for her trip to Orlando for the annual ASH conference, I got a call from the alarm company that the interior motion sensor had gone off at home, I asked them to call the police. I shooed Beth out of the car and drove home as fast as my little car would carry me. Luckily it was a false alarm and everything was ok. I made it home in about 15 minutes, beating the cops there by 30 minutes. No wonder crime in Memphis is so out of control, it takes the cops forever to respond to problems.

The Maid

My sister Susan always asks how I keep the house so neat and clean. Well here is my secret weapon. As part of Libby's chore list she has to vacuum the floors twice and week and clean all floor level windows once a month. 

Heart Beat

Yesterday Libby and I went along with Beth to her 12 1/2 week OB appointment. We got to hear the heart beat. The Doctor said it was very strong and the baby was quite the swimmer as she had a hard time keeping the probe on the baby to hear the heart beat. Maybe the baby will take after his/her Aunt Errin and be a world champion swimmer also. Also the due date has been changed to June 17, 2007, but Beth is still planning on having a c-section so the baby will probably be born a few weeks early.

One Size Fits Most

Last week one of Beth's co-workers gave her a shirt that is suppose to be "one size fits all". I took that to be a challenge of sorts. I had everyone in our family try it on and now it is up to all of you to vote as to who looked best in it. So there is no favoritism shown to anyone I hidden our identities.

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Please Vote.