Holidays  New Years |
Dec 31, 2009
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Jan 1, 2010
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Jan 4, 2010
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| New Years 2009/10 |
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Reading through my previous New Years postings it's obvious that, above all else, I still need a salad. lol This past year I hit my target weight of 195lbs and then, with travel, moving and holidays w |
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| Holidays Christmas 2009 |
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Dec 26, 2009
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| Christmas in Vegas |
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We aren't sure if it was the change of location, the stress of work, or having been used to snow on the ground but this year we just weren't feeling Christmas like we usually do. We decorated the hous |
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| Homes & Cars Homes Las Vegas |
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Nov 27, 2009
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| New Drivers License |
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4 hours. That's the time it took at the DMV.
We'd heard horror stories about the Nevada DMV. It seems they are angry at the legislature and so take it out on citizens in order to create enough backla |
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| Holidays Thanksgiving |
Nov 26, 2009
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Nov 26, 2009
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Nov 27, 2009
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| Thanksgiving 2009 |
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Our first Thanksgiving in Vegas. And Nicoleta's first in a climate where the trees are still green in late November.
The night before we started putting out the Christmas decorations. So this morning |
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| Travel & Adventures Mexico Cancun October 2009 |
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Oct 19, 2009
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| A Week on the Beach in Cancun |
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Spent a fantastic week in Cancun with friends. It's always tough to get away from work, especially with our recent move to Las Vegas, but we'd planned (and paid for) the trip long ago and so went ahea |
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| Travel & Adventures USA Camping Colorado |
Sep 18, 2009
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Sep 19, 2009
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Sep 29, 2009
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| Mt. Elbert & Fall Colors - Last Camping Trip in Colorado |
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Given the stress of our upcoming move, we had absolutely no free time. But there was a break in the weather and we decided to carve out a day and simply make time for one last, quick camping trip befo |
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| Homes & Cars Homes Denver Denver - 2006 |
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Sep 29, 2009
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| Moving - What a Huge Job...Made Easier Thanks to Friends |
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It's time to pack up our house and say farewell to Colorado. Sounds good and is easy to say...really, really hard to do.
Leaving our friends is tough. We have AMAZING friends who we just adore. But t |
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| Homes & Cars Homes Las Vegas |
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Sep 8, 2009
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| Loving it in Vegas |
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We just spent 2 weeks at our new place here in Vegas, and are now heading home to pack up for a "final" move. What we've learned...we love it here! The weather has been fantastic, there is so much ene |
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| Homes & Cars Homes Las Vegas |
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Aug 29, 2009
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| Las Vegas - we're finally here! |
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Whew, it was a long road to get here...trying to buy one house after another only to see them fall through. Well we finally got our own piece of paradise! Only 2 miles from the strip (we're in China T |
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| Homes & Cars Homes Las Vegas |
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Aug 23, 2009
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| Spun around 180...no...wait...make that 360 degrees! |
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Just after my last posting the bank came in and said "we signed off!". So after some thought, we decided to spin 180 degrees and go ahead with buying the house. We flew to Vegas, excited that we were |
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| Travel & Adventures USA |
Jul 3, 2009
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Jul 5, 2009
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Aug 23, 2009
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| 4th of July in Aspen |
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Lots of stress from work, the economy and all the house hassles. We expected to spend the 4th in Vegas, but the house is still in limbo. So Robin Bernd invited us up to Aspen for the weekend and it s |
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| My Life |
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Aug 23, 2009
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| Vegas & LA Solo, Poor Bored Nicoleta (not!) |
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I flew out to look at rentals this week, and to drive to LA and meet with Greg. Nicoleta is so stressed out about the house stuff that she decided to stay home. Don't worry too much about her though, |
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| Health |
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Aug 23, 2009
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| Checking for Skin Cancer at UC Cancer Center |
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Nicoleta was worried about a red spot on my chest, especially since I've spent a lot of my life outside and because my dad had some skin cancer. So she made an appt for me at the new UC Fitzsimmons Ca |
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| Friends Parties & Events |
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Aug 23, 2009
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| White Party |
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Last weekend we hosted our first annual "Midsummer Nights White Party" ("white" being the theme, so everyone dresses in white clothing, all decorations are white, the food is white, etc). We had over |
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| Homes & Cars Homes Las Vegas |
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Jun 26, 2009
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| Screw it, we're renting |
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In a few days it'll be July. We started this process in April and the bank STILL can't get its' act together and reach a final decision on selling us the house. It's been enormously stressful, this "s |
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| My Blog |
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Jun 26, 2009
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| Tired of the Storms |
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We're still in Colorado when we had hoped to be in Vegas by now. Oh well, surely we can enjoy the great outdoors, right? Wrong. It's been an unending series of storms. Denver is WAY over it's normal a |
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| Holidays |
Jun 21, 2009
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Jun 26, 2009
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| Fathers Day |
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We didn't really plan anything for Fathers Day, so just jumped in the car and headed to the mountains. We spent last night at a jazz club with friends, some of whom were on stage performing (I grabbed |
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| Family |
Jun 27, 1959
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Jun 27, 2009
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Jun 26, 2009
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| Mom & Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary |
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Wow, 50 years! That's 10 times as long as Nicoleta and I have been married. And absolutely stunning in this day and age. Thinking about the road they've travelled together - starting in a small town i |
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| Homes & Cars Homes Las Vegas |
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Jun 13, 2009
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| A Tale of 2 Houses |
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We drove out to Vegas last week thinking we would finally, at long last, close on the house. Nope! The investors who Countrywide sold the loan to are still fussy about taking such a huge loss and have |
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| Travel & Adventures USA |
May 28, 2008
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Jun 9, 2008
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Jun 13, 2009
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| Road Trip - Vegas, LA & Phoenix |
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Determined to buy a house, we decided it was time to take one of the cars to Vegas so we could stop with the rental car expenses. And it'd be fun to take a road trip through the Southwest.
So we put |
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| My Life |
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Jun 13, 2009
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| IRS Audit - Yuck! |
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We returned to Denver to find out that we didn't get the house we bid on, and, as an added bonus, we had a letter from our friendly IRS office telling that we'd won and they'd "selected our tax return |
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| Health |
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Jun 13, 2009
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| High Anxiety, High Stress |
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Last night Nicoleta was a little shocked when she looked at me, she said I was literally white. Ghostly white. And not from a lack of sun.
It's been an enormously stressful period. Problems with Brow |
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| Health |
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Jun 13, 2009
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| Raw Food Diet |
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Nicoleta recently got us on a raw food diet. She showed me the cookbook and I was more than a little suspect. But she cooked some stuff...well, "cooked" isn't the right word as fire/heat isn't used... |
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| Friends Parties & Events |
May 16, 2008
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Jun 13, 2009
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| Semi-Annual Wine Party |
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We hosted our semi-annual wine party, which was yet another amazing event. We had over 250 people (just slightly less than at our Christmas wine party) bring hundreds of bottles of wine and countless |
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| My Blog |
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May 11, 2009
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| David Copperfield's Grandfather |
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Yesterday (Mothers Day) we went to brunch with Robin Bernd and then saw David Copperfield at the Denver Performing Arts Theater. Nicoleta had been wanting to see a magic show for a long time, so it w |
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