tonja and gabby’s excellent adventure

lucas’ timing could not have been better - other than the two day ordeal at the hospital of course.  luckily for us aunty tonja was here to hang out with gabby while we were away.  thanks sis!

the two of them had a great time playing, reading books, playing dress-up, reading books, eating junk food, watching cartoons, and reading books.  tonja remarked later that she read more books over that two day span than she has read in a long time, and most of them multiple times!

i’m told that gabby was on her best behavior.  i think that had a lot to do with gabby getting to do everything she wanted to do - multiple times.  but tonja assures me that there was some “compromise” involved.  

they didn’t know it but we had the house bugged and we caught the whole thing on tape.  the line that says it all: “gabby, you can’t watch your cartoons until you finish your chocolate”.  the prosecution rests your honor.

seriously though, it was great for them to spend some time together and we are really thankful for that.  

(the photos on this page are courtesy of aunty tonja)

ramstein drug deals dot com

so there’s this locally run auction website called ramsteinyardsales.com.  despite the ridicule to follow, it’s actually a pretty useful site.  anyhow...  adriana has been a buying, selling, buying like a beast lately.  this is mostly good because we’re able to unload a lot of stuff that just clutters up the house - if you know me, you know i realllly hate clutter!

the site is nice because it’s local.  when you put something up for auction and find a buyer, you can usually complete the deal within a couple of days.  face-to-face, no postage required.  considering how hard it is to find certain things around here, along with the cost of the things you can find, you can imagine how fast stuff gets bought and sold.

here’s the sad part...  because of this face-to-face dealing dynamic, you have to have a place to meet up to make a deal right?  so far the most popular deal venues seem to be the bx and the burger king parking lots on base.  every day at lunch time you can witness the parking lot deals going down.  the other day at lunch i had to dodge two different ladies wheeling and dealing in the burger king parking lot in order to get to the front door.

...what?  a purse?  do i look like i want a louis vuitton purse?