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Monday 25 August

Monday 30 June

    I am losing my mind! No one cares... (23:48) - Six years ago when Cassie and I met and decided to get married I went to my pastor friend, Paul and asked him to perform the ceremony. He agreed, but asked to have a talk with the two of us... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments

Thursday 26 June

    The Tennessee gang has arrived (19:43) - This morning the harsh side of reality hit me in the gut with the force of a shotgun blast of double aught buckshot!  Yesterday after a meeting with our lawyer, we had been discussing our possibility of declaring bankruptcy, we... | 0 Trackbacks | 3 Comments

Thursday 19 June

    My Children are PIGS! (18:48) - So Cassie and I are going through some extreme financial and health woes. I've been out of work since last September due to a severe and progressive back injury. I applied and received NJ State Disabilty which is only good for... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Monday 31 March

Wednesday 12 March

    I just wanna be sedated! (13:40) - My life goal right NOW! NUFF SAID! THE RAMONES "I Wanna Be Sedated" Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be sedated Just get me to the airport... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 12 February

    Proof that I've been converted to a cat person! (22:09) - Cassie and I can now show conclusively to my family and the world that I've been converted to a real life cat person! Kozmo and Me                                            Mouse and Me                                      Sox and Me  We now have six cats Our newest additions... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Monday 4 February

    Bad Morning, Great Afternoon! (21:19) - This morning started out normal enough. I had a terrible night trying to sleep. When I finally woke up this morning Cassie told me Tomas had a half day of school and his mother didn't leave us a message to pick... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Tuesday 13 November

    What a week! (19:50) - I am feeling miserable! My shoulder is giving me more problems the last few days. In fact everything hurts. The arthritis in my hands and neck, my shoulder feels like it did when I tore the rotator cuff. My back,... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 28 October

    Update on "KIDS!" (12:17) - In my last post I took away the kids video games, and the family access to the Internet telling them that if they didn't learn to pick up after themselves or do their chores that the cable DVR was going to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 16 October

    Kids! (13:59) - My wife and I are disabled. Cassie permanently and hopefully I'm just temporarily disabled. There are seven people in my house. My wife Cassie, myself, my twenty-six year old daughter and her three year old son. My twenty year old stepson, and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 5 August

    How to Get Your Adult Children to Move Out (07:25) - Cassie and I went on vacation a month ago we had a great stress free week away from work. home and especially the people who have caused the most stress in our lives lately; Our ADULT living at home children! There are... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 7 January

    Happy New Year (16:24) - Happy New Year! To all my family, friends and anybody who still stops by to read my seldom posted entries. There never seems to be time to blog anymore. When I was injured and out of work I had all... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 25 December

    Merry Christmas (13:53) - Cassie and I (and the rest of the crew here at The Man's Side) wish all of our family and friends a very Merry Christmas! Walls for the wind, And a roof for the rain, And drinks beside the fire... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 10 December

    Our House! (21:28) - Like the song says: Our house is a very very very fine house. With 3 cats in the house a dog and 2 bunnys in the yard. A bunch of great folks living here and some new Christmas decorations! This... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Saturday 22 July

    Time... is not on my side... (10:45) - There never seems to be enough time to get things done anymore. Everyone tells me it's a downhill slide once you hit 40, It sure seems to be true in my case. Cassie and I had the pleasure of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 6 July

    Gram's Party (10:55) - My Brother remarried last year to a wonderful gal. Problem was that he lives waaaay down in Florida and the rest of the family couldn't be there to meet Karen and her son Cody and celebrate with them. My mom... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 25 June

    Alberta's Birthday (09:45) - We celebrated Alberta's 70th Birthday yesterday. It was at Hazards Raintree Restaurant in PA. What a wonderful party it was. Alberta is Cassie's stepmother-in-law from her first husband Rich. I always feel so welcome when we visit them, like... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 19 June

    Robosapien V2 (13:41) - Guess what I got from Billy, Heidi and Kristin for Father's Day? Can't guess? A Robosapian! Wowwee Kazowie!  ... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 8 June

    Our new Photo Album (23:19) - I just finished installing Gallery 2, an online photo album. I will be posting all my photos here from now on. I still have some changes to make to my blog to make navigation better. and I will be... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Sunday 14 May

    Happy Mother's Day (09:45) - Happy Mother's Day! To my Mom, mother of 6 and grandmother of 17, great grandmother of 6. To my wife, mother of three, step-mother of 2, grandmother of 5. To my oldest daughter, mother of 4. To my next... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Friday 21 April

    Lebanon State Park (16:41) - Cassie and I took the girls out to lunch today and for a little drive to the State park near us. Originally we had planned to go to the aquarium or the shore but the girls overslept and Heidi had... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Monday 10 April

    That's all! (07:59) - Talking to teenagers always reminds me of the first verse of "That's all." by Genesis. It goes like this: Just as I thought it was going alright I find out I'm wrong, when I thought I was right s'always the... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Saturday 8 April

    Kid's are so much smarter these days! (19:12) - Did you ever notice how much smarter kids are nowadays? I remember how dumb my parents were. They used to give me advice on everything, based on their (Heh heh) life experiences. In our house things are no different. Our... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Sunday 26 February

    Best Of Show! (17:54) - Heidi's art; "Artificial Respiration" Won Best of show at the Deborah Hospital Heart Challenge at her school Today! The picture just doesn't do justice to the color and the fine details on her art. The reflection from the overhead lights... | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Monday 13 February

    ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (16:57) - What is it with teenagers! Talking with my teens is like banging my head against the wall. It does no good and only causes excruciating pain. This morning Kristin is leaving to catch the bus, the last thing I said... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Sunday 13 November

    Heidi's new job! (15:28) - Heidi started her new job today, working as a bagger at the local food mart. The poor kid came out of the store thirsty, tired and sore. This is her first real experience in the working world. Fortunately she has... | 1 Comments

Sunday 21 August

    Road trip! (05:52) - Yesterday Cassie and I took Billy to RPI (Renselaer Polytechnical Institute in troy New York) where he'll be attending college. We left at 6:00 AM. Previously when Cassie took Billy up for orientation they went via the Mapquest directions which... | 3 Comments

Saturday 16 July

    Home Alone (almost) (12:56) - Cassie and Billy left Thursday afternoon for RPI (Renseler Polytech Institute) in New York for an orientation. Billy will be attending this college in August. This left me and the girls to fend for ourselves for a few days, and... | 1 Comments

Sunday 19 June

    Happy Father's Day! (23:07) - Happy Father's Day to all you dads and soon to be dads and wannabe dads! I've had a very nice day today. I woke up at 5:30 this morning, a lot earlier than I wanted to. Made some coffee and... | 3 Comments

Monday 9 May

    To all Mothers everywhere (03:24) - To all Mothers everywhere, especially my own. A Mother's Love There is no love, like a mother's love, no stronger bond on earth... like the precious bond that comes from God, to a mother, when she gives birth. A mother's...

Sunday 24 April

    Heidi won Best in show for this (02:20) - Heidi's school entered in an art contest for Deborah Heart and Lung and Heidi won best in show! This picture simply does not do the original justice. She is quite an artist! [composed and posted with ecto]... | 4 Comments

Saturday 16 April

    Who do we believe? (06:33) - The other day, after coming home from a stressful day at work, Cassie informed me that Billy was missing six dollars of candy (Billy is doing a fund raiser, to raise money for his robotics club at school). This isn't... | 1 Comments

Sunday 10 April

    Home Alone! (13:25) - Billy has been accepted to a few good colleges; RIT, Georgia Tech and RPI. Cassie left Friday night with the kids to go visit RPI in New York. I stayed home to keep an eye on the pets. Oh! and... | 2 Comments

Thursday 17 March

    Irish prayer and blessings (19:44) - I started a new Tradition today. After thanking God for our food, I read this little Irish prayer and these blessings to my family. Cassie and the kids are predominantly Irish, with a smattering of Norwegian and German thrown in....

Tuesday 1 February

    The battle of the bulge! (08:09) - Our whole family is trying to get in shape, lose weight and stay healthy. This morning I was engaged in a different battle of sorts. Cassie was up late babysitting our grandson Tomas, so I agreed to get up at...

Thursday 13 January

    Heidi Land (12:59) - In our house there are many different worlds. There is the Land of Ted and Cassie, adults, parents, husband and wife, where we put each other and the children before ourselves. We work hard to provide for our family and... | 2 Comments

Friday 24 December

    What a great solution to the naughty or nice dilema! (09:40) - Cassie and I have the same problem with our children at times. We have faced the same situations, with the same disciplines and the same results. Most of the time they are good, but every so often they can try...

Monday 6 December

    I love my kids! (21:44) - I really do! Even when they do their best to make Cassie and I crazy. I understand that their job as teenagers is to disrupt the household, to make a mess as often as they can. To need us to... | 2 Comments

Thursday 25 November

Monday 11 October

    What is wrong with her! (08:10) - Yesterday we took the kids to the movies. They went to see Shark Tales and Cassie and I saw Ladder 49. We were all in a great mood, everyone having enjoyed the movies. Next we had to take Kristin to... | 2 Comments