tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47560738403941122972024-03-13T04:23:03.036-04:00A Minstrel's Wanderings"Not all those who wander are lost..."Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-82585403319850843902009-05-27T20:31:00.002-04:002009-05-27T20:33:43.453-04:00So here I am...<span style="font-size:85%;">...waiting for a school to call me for an interview. I've sent out over a dozen resumes to various schools, up to and including those with an hour and a half drive. But this is the stage that is maddening - the waiting.<br /><br />I'm not so good at waiting.<br /><br />At all.<br /><br />But I'm praying every day that because a door was closed in my life, God is ready to open up the next door for me.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-21102317150332215992009-05-22T08:47:00.002-04:002009-05-22T08:54:20.508-04:00Friday Five: Lessons<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. What kind of out-of-school lessons did you take as a kid?</span><br />I took several, but the one that sticks out the most is my hunter safety course I had to take before I could get my first hunting license. It was a three day course, and my dad sat through it with me (mind you, he was years past when he had to take it, but he sat through the class with me).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. What valuable lesson did you learn this past week? </span><br />That school administrators rarely, if ever, take into account teachers. They will lie, cheat, and steal, so long as in the end, they look good.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Who in your life really needs to be taught a lesson?</span><br />I'm judgmental by nature, but I respectfully decline to answer this question for two reasons. One, because I'd rather not name names, and two, the list is too long.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. What kind of lessons would you love to have a private teacher for right now?</span><br />Questions of faith, but in a more tactile realm, photography (getting back into it after a few years) or learning the violin.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. What steps have you taken to lessen the impact of these rough economic times? </span><br />Now that our Disney trip is behind us, we've planned on getting on a plan to pay off our debt and live on a budget. :)</span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-91577799599440890722009-02-07T08:49:00.002-05:002009-02-07T08:55:18.860-05:00Friday Five...now on Saturday!<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. What are you looking for?</span><br /><br />Right now? Breakfast. In general, though, I'm looking for a new job. I'd like to get a job teaching in the burbs; honestly, I'm burned out on teaching inner-city kids who really don't want to be in school, let alone study history.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. What are you waiting for? </span><br /><br />My tax refund, so I can deposit the money into our Disney trip fund.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. What is someone else waiting for from you?</span><br /><br />My Mom probably wants me to call her, now that I think of it.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. You know you have a long wait ahead of you at the doctor - what do you bring?</span><br /><br />I always have my bag with me, so other than my iPhone, I almost always have a book, or schoolwork, to keep me entertained. I also bring lots of snark and unpleasantness, which usually makes this much more enjoyable...for me.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. Where can you expect always to wait in a ridiculously long line?</span><br /><br />Most people would say the DMV for this one, but I've had fantastic luck with that since I moved to New Jersey; even when I transferred my license from Michigan, it took all of 15 minutes. I'd have to say the grocery store, though, as I always seem to have a knack for stopping in when they only have a cashier and a half working.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-62153934837304327702009-01-11T08:39:00.002-05:002009-01-11T08:40:42.467-05:00On the Road Again....<span style="font-size:85%;">On the road again<br />I just can't wait to get on the road again<br />We're heading to Delaware to see some friends<br />I just can't wait to get on on the road again....</span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-71982137016337237892008-12-26T09:41:00.003-05:002008-12-26T09:46:59.788-05:00Friday Five - End of Year Positivity<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. What's one really cool/useful/nice thing you purchased for yourself this year?</span><br /><br />Hands down, my iPhone. It's damnably handy and I use it all the time.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. What's one area of your life you really improved this year? </span><br /><br />Well, I'm gainfully employed at a school that isn't exploiting employees and sexually harassing female staff as an institutional process (cough Snooty McSnoot Military Academy cough cough), so I dare say that's a hearty improvement.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. Who or what was a regular source of encouragement or inspiration to you this year? </span><br /><br />LG, without a second thought.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. What's something nice you did for someone else this year? </span><br /><br />Little things, I suppose, but hopefully little things add up.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. In what way was 2008 better than 2007?</span><br /><br />I've continued to build my life here with LG and I FINALLY received my NJ teaching certification (wow, who knew it took so many months...and months...and moooonths to transfer my certification from Michigan).<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-88131951793272530842008-12-06T17:06:00.003-05:002008-12-06T17:08:40.175-05:00Today I realized...<span style="font-size:85%;">...that no matter how much Christmas music I play, no matter how many decorations we put up, no matter how in love I am with LG and our life here, it just doesn't feel completely Christmas-y to me unless there is snow on the ground. Now, I'm not talking the 8+ inches that Mom has currently in Michigan. But having grown up in Michigan, to my way of thinking, December is supposed to be covered in snowy goodness.<br /><br />Grass and wet leaves just isn't Christmas-type weather.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-47581632921068551712008-11-07T19:21:00.002-05:002008-11-07T19:35:38.384-05:00The Friday Five<span style="font-size:85%;">Going to start doing the <a href="http://friday5.org/">Friday Five</a> ..<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. What usually marks the middle of your day?</span><br />The end of my courses for the day; I teach a straight five subjects every day, so lunchtime is the moment I get to take a deep breath and refresh my tea.<br /><br />If I'm at home, the middle of the day is marked by taking the boys for their afternoon stroll.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. From whom (or two whom) was your most recent middle-of-the-night phone call?</span><br />I honestly can't remember; the ones that stick out, though, are always bad news.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. On what social, political, economic, or moral issue are you in the middle of the road?</span><br />The War. I'm for moving against the so-called "rogue states," but I'm against staying past common sense. For example, I think we should be completely out of Iraq, but I also think, before we pull out, we should swing up to Iran and remove a certain psychotic despot before we come home.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. How likely are you to give someone the middle finger?</span><br />Very. On a scale of one to ten, probably an eight or a nine. I'll do it while driving; and I'm not one of those wussies who just flip someone off over their steering wheel. No sir, I make sure the window is rolled down, the arm is extended out, hand raised above the roof, clearly stating my displeasure at whatever jackass has irritated me.<br /><br />I'll also use the middle finger as a "nyah" gesture. If I'm joking with a student after school and they make some joke about me (which I don't mind for the most part), they may just get the finger. (Calm down, folks, these are high school students, they've seen the finger before.)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5. When were you last caught in the middle of a disagreement that really had nothing to do with you?</span><br />Last year at Snooty McSnoot Military Academy - I backed up a teacher who had been sexually harassed by the Dean, and had then later been bullied by the Superintendent and the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Because I did the right thing, I was told that my job was going to go to one of the Vice President's sycophants.<br /><br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-14750867043855032502008-11-05T00:00:00.002-05:002008-11-05T00:02:44.681-05:00You Won<span style="font-size:85%;">Congratulations, liberal Democrats. You won. I wish you all the best.<br /><br />But I also wish that you suddenly realize that half of the country voted against your candidate. This was not a ringing, overwhelming success. This was decided by about 3 million people.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-25257157042148830242008-11-04T14:07:00.002-05:002008-11-04T14:09:17.311-05:00NOT Voting for Change<span style="font-size:85%;">Today I voted against hope.<br /><br />Today I voted against change.<br /><br />Today I voted against making history.<br /><br />Today I voted against Medicare and Medicaid.<br /><br />Today I voted to make sure that old people eat nothing but Alpo.<br /><br />Today I voted against sick people getting any type of prescription medicine.<br /><br />Today I voted to wage war with every other nation-state in the world.<br /><br />Today I voted as a Conservative Republican.*<br /><br />*or this is what I voted for if you believe all of the liberal hype<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-7293961468698605062008-10-12T08:02:00.004-04:002008-10-12T12:03:46.934-04:00We Didn't Start the Fire<span style="font-size:85%;">The following events took place between 4:50am and 7:15am.<br /><br />5:10am: Fire alarms in the hallway go off. Kinda early for the kids to be pulling the alarm. *sniff...sniff* <span style="font-style: italic;">Okay, that smells...chemically.</span> (brain hadn't kicked in yet, chemically was the best I could do)<br /><br />5:11am: *get up, check apartment for anything left on/plugged in/check for horribleness*<br /><br />5:12am: *satisfied that it's not our apartment*<br /><br />5:13am: Oh holy shit, those are fire engine sirens. *jump into a pair of sweats, grab Folder of All Importantness!!!!, check for cats....no cats in sight, <span style="font-style: italic;">sorry kids, Godspeed</span>, leash dogs, grab keys and phone and bag, out the door*<br /><br />5:14am: *tests the door handle to make sure there's no heat (childhood training pays off), greeted with a hallway full of smoke...and a fireman* "Sir, you have to evacuate the building!" <span style="font-style: italic;">Heading out now!</span><br /><br />5:15am-5:20am *Hanging out across the street from the building, rumors abound that the fire was on a floor a few floors below ours. Fire has been contained at this point, now getting the smoke out of the building*<br /><br />5:30am: <span style="font-style: italic;">Okay boys, we're outside, it's morning, might just as well do the morning walk.</span><br /><br />5:30am-6:30am: *Back across the street, hanging out. Receive confirmation on where the fire took place.* <span style="font-style: italic;">Hey boys, let's go see if we can see where it happened!</span><br /><br />6:30am-6:45am: <span style="font-style: italic;">Well whaddaya know, we can see the whole burned out apartment, and the scorch marks up the building. </span><br /><br />6:45am: *back across the street to original position. Spy the Channel 6 New van, along with bored looking camera man smoking a cigarette with the camera trained on the front door of the apartment building* <span style="font-style: italic;">Hey, just to let you know, the action is around back. If you actually, you know, want to get a shot that has some potential value, go around back.</span> "Really?" <span style="font-style: italic;">Yup. And just so you know, there are two other stations here, and no cameras around back. </span>"Um...do you think I should go back there?"<br /><br />7:10am: *Everyone save those living on the floor that the fire started on are allowed back in. WM goes back upstairs, opens all of the windows, turns on all of the fans in the attempt to air the place out.*<br /><br />***<br />As far as our apartment goes, nothing was damaged, not a lot of smoke, it just smells like there's been something burning in the area. Leaving the fans on today with the windows open should air things out well. The hallways, however, still reek.<br /><br />!!!! - Yes, I'm aware that that's not a word. But seriously, you should have a folder/container with all of your important information in it that you can just snag and run out of your residence in just this kind of emergency.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-2218743626120800912008-10-06T20:30:00.002-04:002008-10-07T06:31:21.044-04:00Who Gives a Shit?<span style="font-size:85%;">So Tina Fey does a good Sarah Palin impression. Great, that's what that type of comedienne does. At the same time, this is not genius stuff here, folks. Dana Carvey, Frank Caliendo and countless others (male and female) have done politicians before, and better.<br /><br />Frankly, Tina Fey, and Sarah Palin, are so overrated it's not funny.<br /><br /><br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-67950734132485869322008-10-02T19:21:00.002-04:002008-10-02T19:29:35.734-04:00Troubles in Teacher Town<span style="font-size:85%;">So, I've been in my teaching position for a month. I have five preps - Civics, World History, US History, Religion, and Geography. I've been given a great deal of independence with my Religion course, so its official name has become "World Religions and Christian Theology." The first semester is devoted to a comparative survey of world religions, while the second semester is a study in the history of Christianity and the beliefs thereof. I've the same group of students for World History that I have for the Religion course, so it works out well.<br /><br />The trouble, you ask? The fact that these students are not prepared for any sort of academic rigor at all. Progress reports go out tomorrow morning, and save for a scant handful of exceptions, every single one of my students has lower than a C in their respective courses, with most in the D range. While not unusual, it still bugs a bit. Most have the potential to understand the material; the cause of almost all of their poor grades is a lack of study skills. I've given them suggestions, I've given them lists. I'm not there with them at home, so I've done all I can do.<br /><br />However, when every single student in a class fails a test...fails it in a big way, not just barely fail, I become a bit troubled. Well, maybe not troubled. Just pissed off.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-69344524164472043492008-10-01T16:54:00.003-04:002008-10-01T16:56:22.889-04:00Thought for the Day<span style="font-size:85%;">Liberals are only interested in free speech so long as you agree with them. As soon as you disagree with them, out comes the censorship. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Yeah, some of the so-called conservatives in government are complete clowns. Guess what? I'm not them, so take your self-righteous liberalism and go bother someone who isn't smarter than you are.<br /><br />In the immortal words of Stan Lee, " 'nuff said."<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-8240945894119852502008-09-06T22:56:00.002-04:002008-09-06T22:58:44.384-04:00Lesson Planning<span style="font-size:85%;">Exciting Saturday night: working on formal lesson plans for the next couple of weeks. I've the syllabus for my classes complete, so I know what we're doing when. These are the plans I have to turn in each Monday with all of the NJ standards and benchmarks, etc.<br /><br />You're jealous. You know you are.<br /><br />"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write." - John Adams<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-62778935095574097242008-08-26T19:57:00.003-04:002008-08-26T22:01:40.137-04:00DNC<span style="font-size:85%;">If Hillary Clinton stands up tonight and pulls a Sean Conneyr a la "First Knight", I will vote for her without reservation.<br /><br />"In order for the party to remain whole, I want all of my supporters....TO SAY FUCK OBAMA, VOTE FOR ME, WE CAN WIN THIS! NO HE CAN'T!"<br /><br />I'd proudly vote for someone with balls of that magnitude, and it doesn't even matter that I disagree with her on most every ideal and policy.<br /><br />***EDITED TO ADD***<br />I'd also be happy if she walks up to the microphone, pauses whilst looking out at the crowd, and simply states, "Fuck it, I don't have to impress you people," and walks off stage.<br /><br /><br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-26846991975303256732008-08-19T19:37:00.004-04:002008-08-19T19:43:39.405-04:00Happy Tidings<span style="font-size:85%;">So, I got the teaching job I interviewed for last week. I'll be teaching inner-city kids, which is what I was doing in Michigan once upon a time. I go into school on Thursday for paperwork, and classes start on 3 September.<br /><br />As you might have already read on a far more popular and hard-hitting blog, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.ladygypsy.net">LG</a> did not get a lay-off notice, so all is good there.<br /><br />Speaking of Michigan - it's been over a year since I moved to New Jersey. I have no regrets at all, as we've definitely made a happy home here.<br /><br />All in all, life has been blessed for us.<br /><br /><br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-81389360978752580132008-08-10T17:50:00.003-04:002008-08-10T17:53:52.428-04:00Happenings<span style="font-size:85%;">Interview tomorrow for a full time history position, at an alternative Christian school nearby. Over the past few months, I've been watching a <a href="http://www.jdm.org/jdmDefault.aspx">guy</a> on television, and I really like him. He speaks to me, so to speak, with the blend of informality, knowledge, humor, and genuine spiritutality. So, when I found out he was going to be speaking nearby a couple of weeks ago, we went to go see him. I took a great deal away from that engagement.<br /><br />So that was about two weeks ago. Then I get a call from this school saying I've been selected for an interview. I've experience with alternative, inner-city stuffs, as I used to do some of that in Grand Rapids. So I'm taking this as a sign, that this is me being Nudged.<br /><br /><br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-89130758248769318082008-08-08T19:35:00.002-04:002008-08-08T19:37:45.110-04:00Douchebags<span style="font-size:85%;">John Edwards is the douchebag of the week. And a gigantic scumbag. I've always gotten a Kennedy-esque vibe from him, and it turns out it was accurate.<br /><br />Bob Costas is an Olympic level douchebag.<br /><br />'Nuff said.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-12297308047396987792008-08-05T20:55:00.002-04:002008-08-05T21:04:29.834-04:00Personal Observation of the Evening<span style="font-size:85%;">(while folding laundry)<br /><br />"I have really boring underwear."<br /><br />I do. Guy's drawers (or man-panties, as LG refers to them) come in packs of three or four, and always include at least two pairs of grey drawers. I folded laundry tonight, and realized that the majority of my drawers are grey.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-63197991136288613372008-07-26T22:49:00.001-04:002008-07-26T22:51:41.913-04:00Personal Observation of the Evening<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"I would be less of a dick if I weren't so self-righteous.*" - WM</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">*Mind you, I will do nothing to change my self-righteousness. Part of being comfortable with being self-righteous is knowing that it suits you.</span></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-66566295308490274652008-06-20T12:15:00.002-04:002008-06-20T12:18:06.727-04:00It's official: update<span style="font-size:85%;">Well, I went to the interview this morning, and to say the least, it was awkward. The four person panel I interviewed with didn't realize I hadn't initially interviewed for the position, so thus didn't have as much information about it as I would have had normally.<br /><br />I did the best I could with what I had. They're looking for someone to supervise their adult ed teachers; being a teacher myself, I interviewed as a teacher. I do believe they're looking for someone with more of a principal-ish mentality to them; while I am many things, I am not an administrator.<br /><br />But, I emailed the director, thanked her for the opportunity, and asked to still be on the list for part-time teachers.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-55946034920413427912008-06-17T13:31:00.002-04:002008-06-17T13:45:01.467-04:00It's official<span style="font-size:85%;">Not only am I a resident of the state of New Jersey, but now so is my Jeep. As of this morning, I transferred my registration/plates to New Jersey.<br /><br />I didn't want to do it before my Michigan registration expired, because I'm certainly not going to pay for registration twice in one year.<br /><br />Job front news - I went on an interview two weeks ago for a part-time adult education/GED position. I had a fantastic interview with the director. Yesterday, I got a phone call scheduling me for a second interview for a project coordinator position, supervising a portion of the adult education program. I was a bit shocked, and told the lady that called that I had interviewed for a different position. She said she was aware of that, and that the director recommended that I be put on the list for second interviews.<br /><br />I'm a bit torn. On one hand, I'm rather proud that I impressed the director enough to be offered a very lucrative position. And, as my last day at the school I was teaching at was last Friday, I need a job. I've had a couple of interviews for teaching positions, but nothing's been offered yet. On the other hand, though, it's not a teaching position.<br /><br />But, it's a good opportunity. So I go to the (second) interview on Friday. Wish me luck!<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-68104436518053925772008-06-14T06:48:00.003-04:002008-06-14T09:41:06.006-04:00Political Activity<span style="font-size:85%;">Yesterday, LG and I went to a John McCain town hall meeting about a half hour away; I may not be the conservative Republican I once was, but I'm certainly more right than left.<br /><br />He spoke for about a half hour, then took a half hour of questions. Having been to many of these types of events before, I expected the standard pre-screened, pre-prepared questions from a handful of specially selected audience members. I'd guess there were only two or three of those, and the rest were actual questions from regular folk.<br /><br />McCain was engaging, self-depreciating ("in 2000, I didn't know a lot about global warming, so after the election I went back home to Arizona, since I lost..."), and seemed rather genuine. Which, honestly, is what he's supposed to be seeming to be, as he's running for office.<br /><br />Best part? Joe Lieberman was there supporting him. John McCain has Joe-mentum! (pre-failure Joementum, anyway)<br /><br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-11403748337741238842008-06-06T18:51:00.002-04:002008-06-06T18:55:00.406-04:00Free at Last, Free at Last<span style="font-size:85%;">Legal notice: The ex Mrs. Wandering Minstrel recently decided to change her name back to her maiden name, and is no longer under the surname of Minstrel.<br /><br />This was a decision I encouraged her to make when I filed for divorce, but she didn't want to go through the hassle of a name change. Mind you, being lazy in the bureaucracy department, I understand the unwillingness to go through with that sort of thing. But dammit, it's my fucking last name.<br /><br />So as of the other day, she's no longer ex Mrs. Minstrel, now she's just Ms. Ex.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4756073840394112297.post-73434344676048848242008-05-26T07:31:00.004-04:002008-05-26T07:38:08.051-04:00One Year Later...<span style="font-size:85%;">A year ago, the Friday before Memorial Day, I packed up what I could fit into my Jeep, left Michigan, and moved to New Jersey. At the end of that journey was the hope that LG and I could make a life together.<br /><br />One year later, we're still together, we've found happiness, and life is good.<br /></span>Wandering Minstrelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00597967009591619737noreply@blogger.com1