the moment you've been waiting for...

all two of you... since very late last night... yeah, I guess I was very good at building the suspense on this one...

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Christmas tshirt day...

5 months (or 153 days) till Christmas!

Merry Christmas in July folks!

hmm... duplicates...

Somehow on of the pictures appeared twice in the last post and one disappeared... so, here you have ityes, the bears apparently had an exciting game of beach volleyball while we were out!

Tonight I went to the last of the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer concert series at the Mann Center. The saved my favorite for last... Carmina Burana!!!! It was amazing! And the weather was beautiful to boot! Tonight's balmy breeze was a far sight from last night's greenish-purplish-grayish sky with lighting, thunder, torrential downpours, and hail... I'm glad I didn't go to last night's concert! ;-) Anyway, the Orchestra was wonderful as always... and Rosen Milanov did quite a fantastic job conducting!

Now, off to find my special shirt for tomorrow... cuz we all know what tomorrow is... don't we?
I guess you'll just have to come back tomorrow to find out :D

my castle on a cloud... well, sorta

Ahh, the beach...
this year was different without GG for the first time in my memory. We just can't provide the kind of care that she needs nowadays. We had lots of "fun bun runs in the sun" and "motions for lotion before doing the locomotion to the ocean"... can you tell we did lots of rhyming?! Happy hour had an official menu this year. (Perhaps I'll post it here one of these days for your viewing pleasure.) The animals got into lots of trouble...
Another favorite part of the beach is building the annual sandcastle... when I say favorite, I speak ONLY for myself! (while others may somewhat enjoy the sandcastle, I don't think it would happen if I was not there) I decided to take a series of construction/demolition pictures this year... enjoy... (btw, we unionized this year during construction)

Architect & laborer's union

Inspector's Union (in the background)

The mostly completed castle (it gained a few decorations)

The Hand Paked Wall Union (with sun hat), Onlookers, and Bathing Beauties

Hand packer's, laborer's, and Digger's Unions with our completed work

Demolition pics...

Shall I move to New England?

After reading T's heart-wrenching blog post about friendship, I feel like moving to New England. While I have only met T, Honey, and Princess once, I think we'd get along swell! Plus, I hear that it still snows in New England... I remember when it used to snow in PA.

Unfortunately, Drexel still owns my soul for another three years or so... and then Schnabel owns my life for an additional two years...

Speaking of Schnabel, I better be getting to bed since I must be in Trenton, NJ bright and early (perhaps too early!) tomorrow morning. But it's Friday... and I get to look forward to a week at the beach!!!!!! Maybe I can work on ditching the farmer's tan while I'm there :-D.

Note to self: don't forget the ice-pops for the guys on the jobsite... it may be my last day with this crew... hopefully they'll finish next week (we were supposed to be finished by the 4th of July. Obviously that worked well ;-) )

ABCs of Me...

I'm going to tag myself for this one based on RC Mommy's response...

A. Attached or single? Not married.

B. Best friend? hmmm... I have several... I think they know who they are :)

C. Cake or pie? A piece of each please... come'on, I'm a Mikitka

D. Day of choice? Saturday... I can sleep in and stay up late!

E. Essential item? a stuffed animal... I still don't sleep w/o one

F. Favorite color? I really wish I could answer this question... most of the time, I just answer this question with a 96 box of Crayola crayons :D

G. Gummy bears or worms? Sour gummy worms.... mmmmmmmm

H. Home town? Bethlehem (PA, not Israel)

I. Favorite indulgence? Sleeping in a fluffy bed with lots of pillows.

J. January or July? hmmmm... I guess July... I like to go in the ocean and build sand castles

K. Kids? No left hand rings...

L. Life isn’t complete without? Music... singing, playing, listening, etc.

M. Marriage date? Haven't gotten there yet

N. Number of brothers and sisters? No brothers, One sister, One "nocturnal twin" (that's a story for another time)

O. Oranges or Apples? Fruit salad with both and more :D

P. Phobias? cockroaches! eeeeewwwww

Q. Quotes? I guess it's better to be who you are. Turns out people like you best that way, anyway. Big Bird

R. Reasons to smile? lol, the first thing that came to mind I probably shouldn't post (it certainly makes babies smile though :D )

S. Season of choice? I like them all... it's too bad that we seem to have missed spring here this year! And we didn't get a good snow storm either :(

T. Tag 5 people: most people seem to have been tagged... if you haven't, consider yourself officially tagged!

U. Unknown fact about me? If I told you, then it wouldn't be unknown!

V. Vegetable? Lima beans... and more recently, asparagus

W. Worst habit? Obsessing over my grades.

X. Xray or ultrasound? Neither... bad memories of kidney stones

Y. Your favorite food? FOOOOOOD!

Z. Zodiac sign? Gemini... twins!

Craaaazy Finger-Toe Shoes!

I got myself a birthday present. I had no intention of buying these shoes, I really just wanted to see them... then I put them on my feet. They feel so awesome... although they look a bit crazy!!

Check 'em out...

News Flash...

Concert Weekend!!

Drexel University Chorus Spring Concert
3pm - Main Building - Great Court
3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA

and it's FREE!!!

and it's on my birthday!