Friendly Wagers

The Ides of March Madness

I didn't enter the usual plethora of office pools, friend pools, relative pools, and some random person pool mostly because I was too busy to deal with filling them out at the last minute. But March isn't March without a bracket. So naturally I found some competition at home. That's right, Jenny and I are competing to see who can pick the most winners in every round of the tourney. We dispensed with the usual $5-10 entry fees and found more compelling motivations for our rooting interests.

On the line:
If Jenny wins, I have to complete her 'honey-do' list in a day or less.
If I win, my car gets a much needed wash 'n wax, or a fancy shmancy brown bag lunch to take to work. So far it looks like I'll be driving a cleaner car, or enjoying the winner spoils in a sack. But there's still 2 weeks left. Anything can happen. And by anything, I clearly mean, I'd like Cheetos, a chocolate caramel pudding pack, turkey avacado and bacon on cracked whole wheat, and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. 4 please.

Surprise Visitors

Last weekend we had some special visitors who showed up on our doorstep early Saturday morning. If only we had captured the video of Eve's reaction, we'd be up $10K via AFV. My parents (known to the kids as Opa & Euni) came out and brought with them Aunt Amanda and their cousin Josh. Even though they were here for less than 48 hours, we all had a great time together. We gave them as much of an authentic Philadelphia experience as we had time for. If you ask them about the drive from our house to Fairmount Park, they would probably tell you it was a little more authentic than they cared for. But we ate Cheesesteaks, followed Mr. Balboa's footsteps, and saw some of the historic handiwork of the Founding Fathers in the buildings downtown.

Cousins Construction Co. build and tear down another project.

Philly Phun Express

The 3 little bruisers pose w/Rocky.

Green Eggs

Jenny made green eggs for breakfast the other morning.
It went well with the hams:

It's funny cause it's true.

As most of you know, my mom has been working for JetBlue for a number of years now. As a creative writer at an ad agency, I'm a big fan of their timely new poster campaign. Mom, you should be proud to work for an airline with such a great sense of irony, and humor.

Our Valentine's Wii-kend

I purchased a Wii about a month ago and had it hidden in my office at work. I was anxiously awaiting February 14th to unveil it to my family. It was worth the wait.
See the evidence below.

Eliza develops a unique boxing style.

Then she adopts another technique.

Eve boxing in a Beret. Why not?