We both use sweatbands for our daily elliptical machine workouts and we hang them on the clothes rack with these clips. Each day, Bob lays out 3 clips for me to use after my workout, and one day, he started making “clip art” from them1 They remind me of the “towel art” on cruises. 1What … Read more
~Sunday~ Tongue & Groove Open Mic came out of hiatus tonight in its new digs at VAE in downtown Raleigh. About Tongue & Groove: Cohosts Anna Weaver and Ben Molini welcome poets, musicians, jugglers, mimes, whatever… anything but comedy (which is not say you can’t be funny, just that comics have their own open mic … Read more
We’re finally able to see a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel, and we’re pretty sure it’s not a train coming back at us. We’re in the stage now where everything is very exciting. Our last update for the October and November progress was quite recent, so you probably don’t need … Read more
It’s been a very productive month, about which we couldn’t be more pleased and excited. If you need a refresher of where we last left our heroes, you can skim through the pictures in the September’s update. As a reminder, we’re expanding from 1,000 square feet to 1,500 square feet and you can review the … Read more
~Monday~ A year ago today, I married Robert Anthony McVeigh. About a month ago, I learned about this website LoveBook Online, by seeing a book made on it by the husband of a friend, and I checked it out. Between its incredibly intuitive user interface, and the many endearing sayings that come out of Bob's … Read more
It’s been a very productive month, about which we couldn’t be more pleased and excited. If you need a refresher of where we last left our heroes, you can skim through the pictures in the September 5 update. People kept asking us how many square feet we were adding on, and we finally got tired … Read more
This entry is specifically for Leigh Day, but it’s a public entry for all who might be interested. I don’t think I can present these in an order that suggests I liked any one more than any other; I obviously liked them all (for different reasons, though) if they’re on the list. So, I’ll just … Read more
~Monday~ It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted an update, but not as much as taken place as you might imagine would have since our June 29, 2016 update. An unanticipated event happened on July 6—our air-conditioner died. We lived over the subsequent couple of days with the door closed to our bedroom with … Read more
~Thursday~ Bob and I attended the second of the four films we’re seeing together this year at the North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (NCGLFF). This was another collection of short films with a math problem. Named In the Real World, the collection on the NCGLFF website was advertised as, “Do you love documentaries? … Read more
~Saturday~ Bob and I attended the second night of the North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (NCGLFF), where starting at 11:00 p.m. and running until just short of 12:30 a.m., we watched a collection of short films given the name “Can’t Live Without You,” presumably by the festival’s screening committee. On the NCGLFF website, … Read more