Good morning from Northside…
Good evening from Northside…
Genifer made General Tso’s tofu for dinner tonight…
It’s not very often that we don’t like something she makes for dinner. The sauce was great, the rice was terrific but we weren’t digging the tofu. It just has such an odd texture. It’s like marshmallows or something odd.
But at least the sky was pretty in our backyard after dinner…
And today was my 999th Timehop in a row…
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Posted by Thadd F. on March 10, 2021
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Three years ago today, Mack joined our family…
Fast forward to today, and I thinks he’s pretty comfortable with us. He even has his favorite spot where he loves to sleep. He’ll wander off to sleep in his spot. And if you ever can’t find him, he’s probably right here…
We love him and we’re really happy he’s part of our family. ๐๐พโค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on March 3, 2021
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Five years ago today, Genifer and I got married in Jamaicaโฆ
Time flies when we’re having fun. It feels like we just exchanged our vows yesterday. Without a doubt, the last five years have been the happiest of my whole life.
Happy anniversary to the love of my life! I love you with all of my heart! ๐๐โค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on February 27, 2021
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Today was my birthday. Apparently, there was a full moon last night and we could still sort of see it out of our bathroom window this morning…
There were some really pretty clouds this morning…
Good morning from Northside…
This morning we ran over to the Kroger Fuel Station to fill up…
We had 80ยข off per gallon thanks to our Kroger Fuel points…
And then we ran over to Mad Llama for birthday coffee…
JAVA WHIPS!
And it was 29ยบ on January 29th…
Good evening from Northside…
Birthday presents!
We had a $10 off coupon from DoorDash so we ordered dinner from China Food…
We ordered so much food…
But it was delicious. We can’t wait to order more dinners from China Food.
Later, we watched the Mavs lose to the Jazz. Bummer. And over in the Big Ten, #19 Illinois knocked off #7 Iowa…
Afterward, I saw this on Twitter…
And there was this one. ๐คฃ Poor Sparty. They’re having a rough year. I really miss Michigan basketball. I can’t wait until they’re done with their quarantine.
I had a really wonderful birthday. Especially for being in the middle of a pandemic…
Thank you for all the cards and birthday wishes. ๐๐โฝ๏ธโ๏ธ๐๐ฅกโค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on January 29, 2021
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It was another overcast morning…
Good morning from Northside…
But it turned out to be a pretty evening…
Good evening from Northside…
We hadย another one of the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meals. This was Italian Romano Pork Meatloaf with Parmesan broccoli and red peppersโฆ
And add some extra dust cheese…
It was another really delicious meal. All the meatloaf dinners we’ve tried have been outstanding. This was yet another meal that would have gone really well with garlic bread. But I’ve been told that not every meal needs to have garlic bread with it. Still, we like theย Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meal kitsย a lot.
We watched Michigan run riot on Wisconsin. At one point in the second half, Michigan was up by 40 points courtesy of a stretch when the Wolverines outscored the Badgers 43-6…
And they’re only going to get better next season…
And five years ago, Michigan beat then #3 Maryland…
โWho’s got it better than us?โ Hail! GO BLUE! ๐๐๐พ๐ฝ๏ธใฝ๏ธ๐โค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on January 12, 2021
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I love this part of time off from work when you wake up in the morning and you’re not entirely certain exactly what day it is…
The clouds were so pretty this morning…
Good morning from Northside…
I ordered this adorable westie pendant for Genifer for Christmas…
I purchased it on December 12th. It didn’t ship until December 18th. It shipped USPS so it’s journey took almost forever. It arrived today. And this is what was in the box…
Delightful. Now I get to track down what I actually ordered.
Genifer ordered us Chipotle for lunch again…
It started raining this afternoon and just kept raining…
I accidentally took this photo but I kind of like it…
And a very rainy good evening from Northside…
But our basement is still completely bone dry…
Thursdays are trash and recycling days…
We had leftover lasagna for dinner with garlic bread…
I love meals with garlic bread. Genifer made deep dish cookies for dessert…
We started to watch Equinox on Netflix tonight. It seems pretty good so far.
In my Timehop from two years ago, my photos on Google Maps had just gone over 3.5 million views…
Fast forward to today and my photos have 63 million views…
And that’s pretty cool, if you ask me. Also four years ago, it snowed…
We don’t snow very often. But we do get a lot of great days, just like this one.
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Posted by Thadd F. on December 30, 2020
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We both had the day off work today. I could really get used to four-day work weeks. Genifer doesn’t work on Fridays and I used my very last vacation day of 2020…
Good morning from Northside…
Time for day 18 of my Lego City Advent Calendar…
The lead of the eCommerce group at work dropped off a Christmas gift…
It was pretty amazing that she did this. It’s very appreciated. And the roll of toilet paper is hilarious.
Later, we walked down to Blue Jay for lunch. As we were walking down Hamilton Avenue, we noticed a new hair salon has already gone into the location where Helltown Bazaar Workshop used to be…
Surprisingly, Django Western Taco just closed up shop and no longer has a presence in Northside…
And that’s a bummer. We really liked Django a lot. But whatever, it was time for lunch…
Genifer ordered a grilled cheeses with tomatoes…
I ordered my favorite chicken tender sammich…
Blue Jay is always so good. It’s nothing super fancy. It’s always just solid. We never had anything but terrific meals at Blue Jay. Afterward, we stopped at Shake It Records…
It’s really hard for me to find new and interesting music that I like. I really like reggae. And I like usually music. I was thumbing through the global music vinyl. And found some interesting stuff to check out…
I’m going to check these out on iTunes or Amazon Music and then come back for the ones I like. At some point, I’d like to upgrade our turntable and get some little speakers in our living room as well…
Hi Oscar…
We took the dogs around the block…
Good evening from Northside…
I had a leftover taco for a dinner snack…
Genifer made this sugar cookie mix..
I thought the cookies were pretty good but Genifer didn’t care for them. They could definitely use some icing. The dogs always go outside one last time before we go upstairs…
Tonight was the final episode of season two of The Mandalorian,..
Now that all the episodes are avialable, we could finally binge-watch the season. And it was amazing! That show is just wow. I wish we could binge watch it every single day. I wish they would make an infinite amount of Star Wars series with all sorts of storylines from around the Star Wars universe. That would be amazing.
In my Timehop today, we ate at Django when they were still in Northside…
And Oscar is a very handsome little guy…
It was a great start to our three-day weekend. ๐๐โค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on December 18, 2020
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When we woke up this morning, we found Northside got a dusting of snow…
But there wasn’t much snow on the hill at the end of our street…
Time for Lego City Advent Calendar day 15…
Genifer ordered Chipotle delivery for lunch….
Chipotle was delicious. I hadn’t had Chipotle in forever.
Both Arsenal and Leicester played at the same time this afternoon. I kept an eye on both of the matches while I was working…
And both of my teams lost. Arsenal is really in a death spiral right now.
We got a couple of special deliveries today. The first package was from my parents…
And there was a wonderful box of Christmas cookies in their package…
There were so many delicious cookies in that box. We cant wait to try them all. And now we also have presents under our tree…
Thanks, mom & dad! Our second package was from TastesOfChicago.com…
And inside were two Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria Chicago-style deep-dish pizzas…
And two huuuuge chocolate chip cookies…
Thanks, JJVE! We can’t wait to try our pizzas and those cookies look terrific!
Later, we took the dogs around the block. It was kind of misty outside this evening…
We couldn’t even see the hill across the way on the other side of the highway…
The hill was just barely visible…
Good evening from Northside…
Today is my Timehop was this photo…
It’s interesting that when I saw this photo my mind went to a completely different place when I saw animal mask than when I saw this originally. And there was this one too…
That would have been the best white elephant gift ever. To this day, I still kick myself for not buying it.
Hi Oscar. He’s so fuzzy!
We had a great Wednesday. Thank you again for the wonderful Christmas gifts.
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Posted by Thadd F. on December 16, 2020
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Good morning from Northside…
Time for day 15 of my Lego City Advent Calendar…
It was another crazy busy day at work. But we managed to get through again. And then it was good evening from Northside…
Genifer has a pastrami broiler sammich for dinner tonight…
And I had turkey tacos…
And that makes today a TACO TUESDAY! My tacos were delicious!
In my Timehop today, there were a couple of Mack in our backyard…
And this photo of Milan in the snow at Lytle Park downtown…
A couple of very handsome guys. We watched a couple more episodes of Black Spot on Netflix and called it a pretty good Tuesday. ๐๐๐ฅช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐พโค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on December 15, 2020
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Today was December 1st. How crazy is that? It must have kept snowing overnight because we woke up to winter wonderland…
And a snowy good morning from Northside…
Brrr. I bought three Lego City Advent Calendars a while back. I bought on one for me and one for our niece and one for our nephew out in Boston. I forgot that they were still sitting on the sofa in our studio, and just mailed them out the day after Thanksgiving. Because December really snuck up on me. Violette and Edgerton… your Lego Advent Calendars are on their way. They’ll be there just as soon as USPS finally decides to deliver them. I paid to have them delivered today. But the tracking number says they are still in Cincinnati somehow.
Anyway, I finally got the start my Lego City Advent Calendar today…
And here is Lego City Advent Calendar day one…
A Lego City Advent Calendar. How cool is that? I think Lego anything is pretty dang awesome.
I started working this morning. I had just finished a hour long meeting and a little after 10am all of a sudden, our power went out….
You don’t really realize how much of your work depends on power until you don’t have it. Obviously, there wasn’t any internet. And my work MacBook is a bit older and the battery life isn’t super. So by 11:30am, I was pretty much staring out the window, waiting for the power to come back on.
The energy company’s website said it wouldn’t be back on before 1:30pm. Eventually, we ventured out to go out to pick up something for lunch and decided on Wendy’s…
We got home and started eating our Wendy’s and the power came back on a little before 2pm…
Thank goodness for electricity!
It looks like people got some good sledding in on the hill at the end of our street…
We should have gone sledding while we were waiting for power to come back on.
Good evening from Northside…
We ate leftover Wendy’s chicken nuggets for dinner. And later, we watched Holidate on Netflix. It was super cute. It’s still hard to believe it’s December 1st.
Today was also my 900th Timehop in a row…
And this guy was in my Timehop today…
Pretty fitting for December 1st. It is the season. It was a pretty good day, even without power. ๐๐โ๏ธ๐๐บโค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on December 1, 2020
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