Hey all! Man, no one's posted in awhile...must be end of school year...we are all running around wishing someone would shoot us. Ma and Pa came up today, took Johnny and me out to some good eats at Bob's and then we all packed up Lindzer's furniture from my place. It's so empty in here now!! John laughs at me and says I'm living like a Chinese person: my bed and computer are all on the floor. I just crawl around now. Kinda creepy sounding...

So John and I are off to go see X-3. I really have hated that movie this weekend, cuz my job at the box office has been hell with all the peeps comeing to see it. So it better be good! Peace out~

Lindzer's Italiano Family

Edie - Mother (madre/mamma)
Massimo - Father (padre/pappa)
Sarah - Oldest daughter (Italiano dancer)
Marta - 8 year old daughter (teaches Lindzer Italiano)
Dina - Grandmother
William - Grandfather

Updates

• Staying in Civitavecchia - a western Italiano port
• Sharing dance with Dance group within the city
• Staying with family - daughter Sarah is Civitavecchia dancer in family
• 7 hour time difference from us
• Little Marta snores (this must be universal)
• Saw Balleto de Civitavecchia perform
• WKU troupe performs their piece next Thursday (Geovedi)
• Tiny cars and moter scooters are in vogue
• ciao = Hello; bella = good; scarpa = shoes; pantonlone = pants; vento= wind; vaccia = face; vuona notte = everybody
• Has eaten - lemon/apple cake
• Elections are taking place next week for a new mayor right now - lots of campaigning going on
• Live local bands play on weekends in pubs
• Yes, they have Italian MTV
• Edie (mamma) likes Bruce Springstein
• Stephen bought red wine frm Sicily
• Massimo (papa) likes Pink Floyd
• Dancer friends are swaping American/Italiano music
• Barbeque on Saturday - maybe Rome visit soon

Lindz in Italy

Day 2 & 3 - We heard from Lindzer via email on the 18th. She started her journey on the 16th with mostly air travel.

She's staying with a family over there. The Italian mom's name is Edie and grandfather William, who escourted her to her first dance practice with the Italian dancers. Stephen's Italian father is named Luka.

It doesn't sound like she'll be starving. She's had sausauge and spinach, pizza (of course), Italian cornflakes and a cracker like toast. She's also had dried ham and mozerella on panini. And of course a "little" wine. She rubbed it in and said she's already had her first serving of gelato.

Communication is rough, but she's managing with the Italian dancers. During practice, learning to count in Italia seems to be the most important thing she needs to know right now. All is well, and we'll continue to post updates as we receive them.

Lindz Leaves for Italy

Day 1 - Lindz leaves for Italy today. Her (1st) plane take off at 12:30 PM to begin the journey overseas. We're excited for her, but I'll feel much better when I know she's on the ground and there. The next posts will be updates as we receive them from her about her latest adventure. Stay safe Lindz. We're praying that all goes well.

Dad

Oh yea. Cavs remind Detroit that we're playin' in our house now. The Pistons took the first two games in Detroit, but we took the third on our floor winning 86-77. LaBron had a triple double and Anderson Varejao played an awesome game! We did all this with Larry Hughes out of the game. He last his 20 year old brother to heart complications and was in St. Louis with his family. Series is now 2-1 with Detroit in the lead. WE WILL need some miracles to beat 'em. The Pistons are the better team, but it's nice to see my Cavs in the second round for the first time since 1992.

"Hi there, I have a brain port installed!"

This is so cool! Check it out:

http://osubio597.com/MustRead/octet_stream.pdf

Biotechnology rocks!!....i know, I'm a nerd. :-P

For anyone interested - I did purchase the Snow Patrol CD and the new Red Hot Chili Peppers CD on line. Should have it by Friday. Yes - I'll create a "backup" copy Bethie.

On another note, the Bruce Springstein Cd is mostly past folklore type songs. Obviously Bruce is experimenting, I'm just not in a scientific mood. I'll be selling this one to CD Connections SOON.

I'll give this one 2 crabs out of 5.

This lil' dude is set! Heh heh.

Yeah so I haven't posted in like ages...maybe it's because all I do now is spend my days at AMC learning how to better smell like a popcorn kernel. Mmmmm....not really after you've been smellin like it for more than 3 days in a row. Blah. Speaking of "blah" that is apparently what everyone came to the theater to do this weekend...barf anywhere and everywhere it was humanly possible. Fortunately for me, I managed to avoid most of those guests...Jen-nay however was not so lucky. I guess United 93 has that realist film technique of making you feel like you are on a crashing plane aka "Blair Witch Style" and well, we had a lot of green people makin their way (not very successfully) to the restroooms. Besides that and being constantly blamed for overpriced ticket sales (yes, I will admit it, I Bethany, lowly peon worker at AMC establish the incredibly outrageous prices in order to piss people off daily...C'MON!!), it was an average weekend. The only other thing I managed to drag my butt around and do was finish the second season of 24, which honestly did not get me moving much, save for the last episode where I was pacing nervously trying to figure the ending out before it happened.

John was p-oed at me yesterday b/c while he did homework I played Sims 2 for like 5 hours....on his computer. Hahaha, talk bout rubbing it in. I'm the worst. So today I've been paying for my laziness and working on a Biology paper (10page-wahh) about cultural evolution and tattooing. Can we tattoo ur head Dad? That would be soooo cool!!! Hahaha. Man, well John just called and actually wants to go run....hmmmm....maybe he's ill (muahaha). Gotta go!

Currently listening to: Madonna: Confessions on a Dance Floor

So Dad, do you have the new Snow Patrol album....hint hint....I would really like to burn that one! If not lemme know and I'll get it off iTunes.

so i don't want to study... i'm tired of studying, oh well, what can ya do?

Stephen's dog

Stephen as a baby.

I know - I'm a dead man when i see Stephen again.

Hey, is that how you spell Stephen-Steven-Steeevnnnnn?

Snow Patrol's New Cut
(4 out of 5 crabs?)

Some good music beginning to surface out there. Bethany got the new Goo Goo Dolls last weekend. We listened to it somewhat going to WKU. She burned me a "back-up" copy, but I can't find it! I think I may have left it in Nana/Grandad's car. They've probably been groovin' to it all last week.

I just purchased the new Bruce Springstein CD/DVD dual-disc. Haven't really listened/watched it yet - but will give my opinion in due time. Reviews have been favorable, but can Bruce create anything that isn't good to listen to?

That brings me to two more groups out there - The Red Hot Chili Peppers have a new cd coming soon. If the rest of the album is as good as their video release of "Dani California", then it should be a pretty good set of songs.

Finally, for those of you REALLY know me, I'm into Snow Patrol. The link below will take you to their newest single that isn't on any CD yet, but I'm sure they are putting together a collection to market. If it's anything like their last CD, Final Straw . then it should be a good one.

Here's the link. It will take you to the over-commercialized Rhapsody - just click play.

Any thoughts about it? How many "crabs" out of 5 would you give it. I give it 4.

http://www.rhapsody.com/snowpatrol/handsopen?artistId=14481

ahhh - it's friday
This seems like it was a fast week! Feels like just yesterday we were down at WKU! Two weeks ago I said I was going to work on the deck and haven't lifted a hammer yet, so this weekend it will definitely be on the top of the list. Besides, I have no choice since JohnSr and Terri are making me look bad. They have been slaving away doing dry-wall in their basement all week, which looks really good. Have a good weekend everyone -

Be safe JohnSr and Terri on your trip to Maryland!