startswithanx | August 24, 2010
Jake and I took a little stay-cation with Penny recently in Mt. Charleston. It’s just 40 minutes from Vegas, but looks and feels like we boarded a plane, jumped on a snowmobile and hopped on a ski lift to get there. During a hot Vegas summer, that just means there are mountains there and no one’s cracking eggs over the [...]
startswithanx | August 3, 2010
Jake and I both have a tendency to act like Penny is human. Not just human, but a little human that came as the result of our combined DNA. Also known as our child. We like to say she gets her allergies from Jake and her surprising athleticism from me. Her dislike of people in general [...]
startswithanx | July 26, 2010
I think I’ve mentioned before that Jake and I work together. Well, we don’t so much work together as we do just work at the same place. It has its ups (being able to not just listen to the other person talk ish about a co-worker, but actually contribute to it) and it has its [...]
startswithanx | June 24, 2010
I will be visiting Jake’s motherland in October 2011. No, I’m not referring to East Lansing, home of Michigan State. More like Paraguay, the South American country that’s not Uruguay. Or, as it’s recently become known, the country whose soccer team sports candycane-striped socks. Paraguay is the place of his birth, where everyone in his [...]
startswithanx | June 6, 2010
Jake and I had a moment Saturday night. He said something to me that I’ve been waiting to hear for a good four years now. Words my friends and family know instantly put sweet joy in my heart and soul. After a long night at the office, he came home, loosened his metaphorical tie, turned [...]