i need some vbs advice

when you're talking to a three year old and all she does is stare at you, what do you do?

fat lip

ouch

8 ways my life might be different if it weren't for Jason

I wouldn't watch or listen to hockey games.
I wouldn't be very social.
I wouldn't be a Purdue football fan.
I wouldn't live in Pittsburgh.
I wouldn't know very much about British naval history.
I wouldn't know who Horatio Hornblower is.
I wouldn't laugh as much as I do.
I wouldn't have a map of the battle of Yorktown on my wall.

news

we made our final student loan payment this morning and are now debt freeee.

new friends

jason and i have made some new friends here in pittsburgh. the coolest thing about these new friends is that they are more like the people we spent our time with back in grad school than anyone else we have met here: they love to read, have read lots of classics and love to talk about them. they love lord of the rings and starwars. they are very intellectual and have some pretty interesting conversations with us. we hang out with them on wednesday evenings after church and are usually the last to leave the building. those of you in champaign would love them instantly. they are brother and sister (dan reminds us of our old friend branson - one of the coolest people we know). the most ironic thing about this, though, is that they are members of our youth group. but whenever we hang out with them, we forget that they are more than 10 years younger than us. dan is a sophomore and kate is a senior and will be going off to college next fall.

and so, here again, it's like having friends in grad school. there's that nagging knowledge in the back of my mind that we will only be able to hang out together for a short period of time. and that makes me sad.