Author: Eileen OShea

  • Counting our blessings

    Chuck had his six-month CT scan this past Monday at City of Hope. It’s been on the calendar, and we’ve been doing these follow-ups for a while. But in a pattern that has become familiar, in the week or two leading up to these appointments & tests both Chuck and I start to exhibit some,…

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  • Thinking outside the box

    It’s interesting times these days here in California. We have a new governor (well, he’s more like a gently used governor as he’s been governor once before) and he is doing what he said he’d do when he was campaigning: try to fix what’s broken in California, i.e. the budget process (among other things). His…

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  • Resolutions

    2011 has started! We’re now a few weeks into it and so far we’ve run one race and attended several spinning classes. It’s all part of a long-range plan to get ourselves in better shape. We joined a new gym in our area, and they offer free spin classes so we started going on Tuesday…

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  • Skal! Cheers! Prost! Whatever!

    Quick! Download this app and take pics! New Year’s fun for all AND you can drive afterwards!! Happy New Year, world! UPDATE: Argh! All of the instructions are in Swedish! Jösses!

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  • Westminster Centennial

    We just spent four days in Colorado visiting family and attending the Westminster, CO (Chuck’s hometown) Centennial kick-off event. It was a pretty low-key affair, with a very small town feel to it (though with a population of over 100,000 people it’s not all that small anymore – when Chuck’s family moved there, it had a…

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  • Out with the old, in with the new (year, that is!)

    Well, it’s holiday season and Chuck and I have been fa-la-la-ing our hearts out. First up, right after Thanksgiving, it was time for the annual Christmas light installation. This took a solid weekend and Chuck enlisted the help of our friends Kyra and Tim and their kids (this relieved my mind because it meant that…

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