You may know him from Talk Soup, or the American version of Queer as Folk – but either way let me tell you, he’s even cuter in person with his arm around than you might imagine! ;-)

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Check out these pics – one set taken yesterday morning, and the other just a few minutes ago after a record-setting day of snowfall.

Day 1 - Back Yard

Day 2 - Back Yard

Day 1 - Front Yard

Day 2 - Front Yard

I think it’s beautiful. :) And probably a perfect day to work from home!

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I know it’s the stress and lack of sleep.  And living in these haunted walls – there’s not a room in this house where something doesn’t remind me of everything I’ve lost.  I just need this place to sell.  Somebody suggested hitting the gym the other day…  I’d LOVE to, but I canceled my membership when I thought I had the place sold, and now I can’t justify paying for a new membership when every month I’m stealing from my savings just to pay the mortgage.

I guess one good bit of news is I’m putting out about 20 fliers in my tube each week.  I just hope it’s not neighbor kids taking them.  ;-)

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One of the side effects of all this turmoil and change has been that my blog has been seriously neglected. I’ve thought about – and not completely ruled out – abandoning it… Since I first started at blogspot.com years ago (wow, first post in 2005!), Facebook has stepped up to fill much of this blog’s original purpose. For the time being, however, I’ve resolved to blog more than every few months… ;-)

I’ll end this post by once again plugging the fact that my house is still for sale.  ;-)  The sooner I can sell, the sooner I can find a better place emotionally and spiritually (not to mention financially).

• House Still For Sale (MLS 011292648)
• 3 Bed, 2 Bath Home For Sale in Plano

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See the MLS listing here

MLS 011292648

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My house is officially for sale – it hit MLS this morning, I think, and I just had my first showing!

So if you know anybody in the market, please pass this along!

MLS # 011292648

ABSOLUTELY CHARMING and move in ready. Warm and inviting big living area with wood burning fireplace. Breakfast nook could be used as a study or a play area. Entertain in the formal living and dining area or relax with a good book in the natural light of the sunroom. Split bedrooms. Galley kitchen with white cabinets and updated appliances. A MUST SEE HOME. Priced to sell quickly.

Pics here

Full listing here (this was just the first site I found it on today when I Googled)

Please buy my house.  :)

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I just wanted to point out to friends and family that Tressa, Keith’s youngest sister, is on her way to Rwanda as a member of the Peace Corps, and that she will be blogging about her experience at http://tressawessa.blogspot.com/ (“No Better Time” is the name of her blog).

I’m so excited for her – this is something she’s always wanted to do!  Keep an eye on her blog – I’m expecting some pretty cool pictures and stories in the coming weeks and months.

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I’ve always adored P!nk, though my adoration has been overshadowed by Keith’s.  The last time we saw her we were lucky enough to end up on the second row, and Keith actually got to kiss her hand at one point.  I think he told that story last night as many times as he could.  ;-)

Anyway, last night she told us (yeah I like to think of it as a P!nk -> Brian & Keith conversation) that she’d recently dislocated her shoulder, so she wouldn’t be able to perform all the acrobatics she normally does.  I found out today at work that what she did at the VMA awards this year (which I completely missed) was one part of the concert. She still sang this song — in fact this one was right before she broke out Bohemian Rhapsody!

So being the geek I am :) I looked the video up. And let me just tell you – I LOVED this performance!  I’ve watched this video at least 100 times today.

I love that she sings the whole way through, even while she’s flipping every which way up in the air!  Britney doesn’t even compare.

So without further ado….  P!nk at the MTV Video Music Awards:

Click here if you don’t see the video

I tried taking pictures and video at the concert, but we were so far away the pics didn’t turn out that well, and video sucked — even the audio was horrible with all the distortion.  (it was LOUD!)  But here are a couple halfway decent shots of the stage at least.  ;-)

P!nk, Funhouse Tour, Dallas TX 9/23/09

P!nk, Funhouse Tour, Dallas TX 9/23/09

EDIT: I swear I’m obsessed with her! I just found this video of the same act from her tour. There are some differences but it’s basically the same. Awesome!!!

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Samoa, Brian, & Bingo

Bingo, Brian, & Samoa

What cracks me up is that Samoa had been trying to take over my pillow all night and it was a battle of wills…  I was determined she wasn’t going to take MY pillow!  lol

Looks like she won after all.  ;-)

Khaki’s under the blanket somewhere too.  It was a full couch!

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What is it, you say?  Wikipedia says, “a flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse.”  The term can apply to groups of people doing all sorts of strange things, but my favorite are the ones where they do choreographed dances (a Google video search shows not only the dance ones, but also people falling to the ground, or freezing in place, etc.)

So without further ado….

Sound of Music | Central Station Antwerp (Belgium)

Wolfgangsvault Flash Mob Woodstock 40th

I Gotta Feeling Live at Oprah’s 24th Season Kickoff Party

Liverpool T-Mobile

Michael Jackson Tribute – Stockholm

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Sometimes it’s pretty cool working on the bleeding edge… ;-)

click here if you don’t see the video above

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Trey, Bryan, Keith, Heather, Tanya, Brian, Missi, & Tressa

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This may just be the best commercial out there on the subject of marriage equality. And it comes from Ireland, and the group “MarriagEquality“. Watching this ad, “Sinead’s Hand,” makes it crystal clear that putting the question of marriage on the ballot is not only ludicrous, but it’s offensive as hell. This Fall, the state of Maine will vote on whether gay and lesbian couples should have equal rights to marriage. It’s important to win that vote.

But the premise behind putting civil rights on statewide ballots smacks in the face of the types of protections and rights that governments – whether in the U.S. or in Ireland – should automatically provide for its citizens. Watch the commercial, and then ask yourself, “What if you had to ask four million people to marry someone?”

If you don’t see the video above, click here.

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For those of you that use GMail – ever had to search for a message that you know is there somewhere, but you’re not sure where exactly?  This happens all the time for me, with my horrible memory…  Anyway, most of the time when just typing my search term in the search box, I get lots of results — mostly crap from my Junk E-Mail folder.

So here’s how to filter that out:

<your search term here> -label:junk-e-mail

Say for example you’re looking for your student ID, like I just was, because you never remember it and the stupid website you need to log into prevents your browser from remembering it as well.  (yeah I know there’s a “fix” for this but I’ll get to that later lol).  Here’s what I searched on:

dcccd -label:junk-e-mail

Bingo!  There’s my student ID on the first page of results, whereas I would have had to wade through page after page of junk mail looking for it otherwise.

If you care how it works…  the - just means to exclude something, so combining that with label:junk-e-mail tells it to exclude items with the “Junk E-Mail” label applied (notice you substitue a hyphen for spaces).

Now to star that sucker…

There’s loads of additional google search info here.

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