Musings

It's been awhile since I last posted. This weekend marks our 3 month anniversary! We will probably go see The Passion movie, grocery shop and hang out. Tim did major cleaning last weekend (bless his heart) while I wrote a paper so we don't have to clean. I'm looking forward to Spring Break in a week. A friend and I are going to the spa! I've never had a professional massage. It should be fun. When times have gotten tough over the last couple of weeks we just keep chanting "spa spa spa" and that gets us through!

Jingles has discovered a new talent: thief. Yes, he takes things and hides them. We've lost pens, chapsticks, lighters, you name it he hides it. He's a cutie though so we forgive him and we eventually find everything. Tonight was a good night in class because my prof. decided to let us take our exam home to write instead of having an in-class exam and now it's not due till March 18th! So, lucky me gets to procrastinate a bit more :)

Ok, well I'll tell Tim to give his half of the story! Hope everyone is well and please let us know how you're doing.

Alanna's visited states map

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I also wanted to plug this great book that we received from my friend Jackie as a wedding gift. Tim peformed one of the "seductions" this week and it was so romantic! He had this box sitting on the table all week with a note that read "surprise in progress: no peeking!" and it was torture not to open it. He gave it to me last night and inside it had all these nice little compliments and sayings and I guess he's supposed to put more in any time he wants. I will now call it my "Tim mail"!

Happy Valentine's!

Hi everybody! We hope you all had a nice Valentine's Day yesterday.

Well it's been over a week since our last post. Not much has happened. Just another long week of work for me and school for Alanna. We did get to see a free advanced screening of "50 First Dates" starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. It was a pretty funny movie. We won tickets from the Syracuse New Times paper. Alanna also won 2 tickets to the Manlius Art Cinemas and Westcott Cinemas from this free weekly paper. She won by posting a Valentine in the paper to me. Aren't I a lucky guy? She's so sweet.

For Valentine's Day, we got up yesterday morning and exchanged a few gifts. Alanna got me this cool tin full of assorted chocolates. I also recieved some Valentine sleepwear, that I will model for you. They are very comfortable. You can't see the new boxers I'm wearing under those new pants, and you're not going too. Unless there's popular demand!

I bought Alanna this cute little Valentines bear that can record a message and then play it back. The heart lights up during playback, like the picture you just saw. Here's a nice pic of mommy and her babies.

Later on I went to run a few errands. I got the shortest haircut I ever had. Check me out with Jingles.
I also returned with these lovely flowers for my beautiful wife.

Last night we went to Pastino's for dinner. They ran a Valentine's special where we could each choose one of five entrees, an appetizer, soup or salad, and dessert. The food was delicious, but the experience was pretty poor due to the service (or lack thereof). It was not the nice romantic dinner we hoped for. Again, the food was great. As a matter of fact, I'm eating Alanna's leftovers as I type.

We rented a few movies last night, and watched "Old School." That was hilarious. Tonight we'll watch "Intolerable Cruelty" and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."

Here is something I got from Ryan Fewins' site. It shows all of the states I've visited in my life. Enjoy!



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I hope I didn't go to link happy today with all of the pics. I can't resize the pics on my computer, so let me know if they resize automatically to fit everybody's screens, or if you have to scroll.

Tim

Sunny!

Looks like even Phoebe wants it to be summertime!

Two In A Row!

That's right! Tim's posting two nights in a row!

I'm tired from work today. All day today and yesterday I've been redoing the floors at work. 4 rooms total. I stripped them all with chemicals, and then used the big scrubbing machine (kinda like a buffer) to continue stripping, then clean and wax them with 3 coats. Put that together with the endless shoveling of snow, and I'm worn out. TGIF tomorrow!

Well Alanna's with her friends tonight watching "Friends." I will probably play guitar for awhile, maybe record some riffs I came up with. It's fun to get out the bass and drum machine to make short songs. I don't sing though! But if singing in the car along with a loud radio is any indication of my voice, then I'm an American Idol! Ha!

Here's a pic of Jingles in his new bed. Cute, huh?

Here I am ecstatic about the snow on Saturday morning. That's five inches. After shoveling that, we got about four more inches later on that I shoveled. Then I woke up Superbowl Sunday to shovel three more! Speaking of the big game, we had a good time with Sue and Angie watching at our place. Here's Angie explaining the Panther's defense to Phoebe. Phoebe bet on New England and won!

Well time to get out George Foreman for dinner. Bye!

Tim

Hell (Syracuse) Froze Over

Yes, Hell froze over. That must mean that Tim is posting tonight!

Here is a survey Alanna forwarded to me to post on the web so y'all can learn about me.

1. What is your Full Name: Timothy Ronald Sredzinski
2. What Color pants are you wearing now: Grey 
3. What are you listening to right now:  Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good 
4. What are the last 2 digits of your mobile phone number(s): 86
5. What was the last thing you ate:  Pretzel sticks with carmel on them 
6. If you were a crayon what color appropriate would you be: red
7. How is the weather right now: Tim's answer is the same as Alanna's - FOR THIS ANSWER I WILL LEAVE IT THE SAME EXACT AS ANGIES (and Mandy's) because we are in the same horrible place: "Cold, snowy, and shitty, the same way it is every single day in this gray hole"
8. Last person you talked to on the phone:  My cousin Steve 
9. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex: Depends on if they're walking toward me or away from me 
10. Do you like the person who sent this to you: I Love Her
11. How are you today:  Tired and sore from shoveling snow and work today 
12. Favorite Drink: Mountain Dew
13. Favorite Alcoholic drink: "Something Different" - Amaretto, cranberry juice, OJ 
14. Favorite Sports: Hockey and football, pro, not college crap 
15. Hair Color:  light brown 
16. Eye Color: hazel
17. Siblings: Matt
18. Favorite Month:  August
19. Last Movie you Watched: Monster
20. Favorite Day of the Year: Same as Alanna's - from now on it will be November 28th!
21. Are you too shy to ask someone out?  no, but I won't have that problem again anyway 
22. Summer or winter:   summer
23. Hugs or Kisses:  hugs
24. Chocolate or Vanilla:  Chocolate
25. Do you want your friends to write back: sure
26. Who is most likely to respond: mom
27. Who is least likely to respond: matt
28. Living Arrangements: Living in the ghetto with my wife and our 3 cats
29. What books are you reading: The Automatic Millionaire...and "the purpose driven life"
30. What's on your mouse pad: the DELL logo
31. What did you do last night:  went to red lobster with Angie and Alanna, shoveled snow (for the 102nd time) and watched "24" 
32. Can you touch your nose with your tongue: no
33. What inspires you: god, my family and friends and myself, my guitars
34.If you could change anything about yourself, what would it be and why: I'd be in better shape, and...living in Maui
35. Favorite Flower: I'm a guy...
36. Favorite Cookie: Chocolate chip (mom's)

More to come from me soon, when I learn to put links and stuff in and become a computer geek.

Tim