February 23, 2008 | Gabe, I'm an Idiot

Besides the fact that 1) He’s pretty cute and 2) He’s got a great family I have yet another reason that everybody should have married Gabe.

He will notice before you leave that you and the kids are on the way to a birthday party that doesn’t take place until tomorrow.

feb 24

I’m an idiot.

So now I’m heading over to Momma K’s house for a cocktail party. If that thing isn’t tonight I’m just going to sit in her driveway with Nancy and drink some beer.

April 16, 2007 | Gabe, Music, Pictures, The Goon Squad

January 17, 2007 | Gabe

Yes. I said baking. Well, baking, wrapping, then re-wrapping, then re-re-wrapping (I have two two year olds) gifts.

In other words, happy birthday, Gabe. You are a wonderful father and husband. We love you.

January 8, 2007 | Gabe, TV

Gabe: How can they make this whole song about double Whoppers and not once use the word “diarrhea”?

October 25, 2006 | Gabe

I have mentioned before that Gabe and I have a tradition of giving out cards for the wrong occasion or cards in foreign languages. The goal is never to get anything touching or appropriate but to get a good laugh. Our anniversary was a week and a half ago. Unfortunately, I was sick that day so Gabe came home with two cards.

One card was in braille. It was my “Get Well Soon” card.

The other one was my anniversary card. Mark was over here the other day and he thought that my anniversary card from Gabe was funny enough to take a video of and then post on his video blog. Mark also got a huge kick out of what Gabe wrote in it.
Now that you’ve seen it, you can imagine how much The Goon Squad loves this card. What you couldn’t possibly imagine is how many times I’ve heard the first 20 seconds of “The Final Countdown” in the past 10 days. Ian will just walk around with the card and open it up over and over and over again.

On a non-card related note, Claudia is sound asleep sitting up on the couch in her jacket, sunglasses and a string of silver beads that includes skulls and crossbones on it that my friend Angie brought to the kids from a Bucs game. I’m just going to let her sleep like that. At least she is napping.

October 16, 2006 | Gabe

A lot of things have changed in my life in the last seven years.

Seven years ago today I had a job in sales in Tampa. I lived in a crappy little apartment and I was really worried because it looked like Hurricane Irene was going to ruin my outdoor wedding.

Today I am a stay at home mom with twin two year olds. I have a great house in Northern Virginia and I am worried that Ian is going to smear chocolate chips from the cookies he made with his Dad yesterday all over my carpet.

Do you want to know what hasn’t changed in seven years?

I still like kissing this guy.

Happy anniversary, Gabe.

September 29, 2006 | Gabe

I just got off the phone with Gabe. He is on a “business” retreat. For work.

Why is “business” in quotes, you ask?

This was the beginning of our phone call:

Gabe: How’s it going?

(loud noise in the background)

Me: Did somebody just yell San Dimas High School football rules?

Gabe: Yes. Yes, they did. They’re playing beer pong.

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Man. I wish I worked for Gabe’s company.

September 13, 2006 | Gabe, Sports, TV

Sarah: Well, OF COURSE HE HAS NICE LEGS! HE’S A RUNNING BACK YOU MORON!

Gabe: Just let it go.

Sarah: You know I can’t.

Gabe: I just don’t want to get sucked in to watching “Dancing With the Stars”.

Sarah: I can’t help it. I’m sorry. I want to see Emmitt Smith dance.

Gabe: I’m going to bed.

August 25, 2006 | Gabe, Randomness

Gabe just sent me this link. It is an advertisement for power tools.

I don’t know why they banned this commercial. I mean - they’re wearing safety goggles.

Anyway, if you like tools and boobs (and a lot of booty) the link above is the link for you. Enjoy.

August 17, 2006 | Gabe

We’re off to Arkansas. The verdict is: The car seats are flying with us. I’d love to say that I was following all the lovely advice that you gave me, but really somebody told my Father-in-law that we absolutely have to have them in order to get on the airplane, so they are coming with us.

The laptop is not coming with us. I may or may not have internet withdrawal symptoms while away.

Good news for you guys though. Gabe has threatened politely offered to guest post while we are gone. He is also building a built in book shelf/entertainment center in the family room so if he doesn’t get around to posting you know why.

Gabe has been working on his top 100 albums list (which might turn into a top 50 albums list) so you might see that, but he has also talked about posting excerpts from blog posts that he has seen on MySpace. Be ready for anything people.

We saw Samuel L. Jackson on “The Daily Show” the other day and I really hope there aren’t any snakes on my motherfuckingplane. The Squad is going to be scary enough for the other passengers. Wish me luck.