LOTS of photos added to the friends section. Check it out.
Look what I found! Talk about a blast from the past.
I scanned over 35 pictures last night. Whew! I rendered most of them this morning, and will add them when I get home tonight before O5 is on and maybe sipping a margaritta. Callie came and collected Tim and I at 9.30 to go to the Red Line. It was open mic night, but we managed to get a good hour of conversation in before the “talent” started (it was mostly a big sausage party). It was *very* nice to hang out with Callie and chat. It feels like ages even though it was at the beginning of the month. We talked until midnight when we went home. I had to get up a little earlier than usual because Kellie (my morning ride to work, aka train girl), had a doctor’s appointment and I had to take the train. Although when Tim and I walked out, it was street cleaning and our car was on the wrong side. Tim suggested that we drive to work. !!! We never drive to work for the hell of it. Cool. Since I would have been 45 min early, I just told him to go the parking garage and I would walk the 20 min to work. He bought me coffee this morning. *awww*
I am having a pretty good day.
I just got a CD from Rachal! Wahoo! Listening to it now, but just so you know…this is the listing:
1. Enigma – Carly’s Song
2. Chemical Brothers – You Should
3. Rage Against the Machine – Wake Up
4. Soul Coughing – Spiral Down
5. Propellorheads – Spybreak
6. Soup Dragons – Dream E Forever (Nostalgia only 
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7. Violent Femmes – Gimme the Car
8. Norah Jones – I Don’t Know Why
9. Smashing Pumpkins – She Knows
10. Soul Coughing – Los Angeles
11. Edith Piaf – La Vie En Rose
12. Gaelic Storm – Beggarman
13. Floating Men – Tall Stand of Pines
14. Tori Amos – Upside Down
15. Pixies – Where is My Mind
16. The Cure – Killing and Arab
Wow. I am so tired. I had an adrenaline rush after completing the layout of the site and didn’t go to bed until 1:00 AM. I now have a link of “A Week in the Life of Ben & Jen” otherwise simply known as ….”Tristan’s First Baby Pic’s’ (there are more baby pictures that you can coo at). I have to admit that this kid is a cutie (even cuter than Bob Barker if that is possible).
Oh. There was something else I wanted to say. What was it. Oh. I remember. YAH! I have friend in the super secret society of livejournal (yeah I sold out, but only to read juicy details of other people lives…and I suppose I can comment now…huh). Thanks Xtian!
Ahhh. How nice. So much cleaner. I had to do some housekeeping on this whole site for some time. BTW, I am currenty collecting pictures for the ‘friends’ section. If you are unhappy with your picture, let me know and I will replace it. But give me a week to scan in my good ones before you jump the gun.
I just got InDesign. I am going to be a force to be reckoned with in no time. Oh speaking of which, I made Tim some personal cards, so be sure to ask him for one when you see him. Make him feel important.
Rough morning. I have headache now. 8(
Last night was okay. Relaxing. After not getting mail for five days because the buzzer was broken on the apartment, the mailman was finally able to make his delivery (or hers). I got a letter from my Mom. She said that Ditto quit going to calvary, got a new apartment in Connersville and refuses to talk about what happened. I wonder what happened. My poor brother. We also went over to Mischa’s to pick up the server and the Mac monintor adaptor for Tim’s sister. When we went to drop it off, they don’t even have a buzzer and the door the building is locked. We yelled at the window for ten minutes before Tim started to get pissed off for looking ghetto. Just as we were about to leave someone left, and we got in that way. She was home and we hooked up her monitor for her, and the glow in Greg and Bekah’s eyes was obvious. Good, the computer should be used.
Then I made spaghetti for dinner, watched Monk, the Chris Issack Show and Sex in the City while reading. It was nice, except I got a terrible headache just before I went to sleep. It must be stress or something. I am looking forward to visiting my Dad this weekend.
Also, a quick congratulations to Koah on her wedding last Saturday and her baby to arrive in November.
Hokay. I got a cup of coffee in me, and I am starting to feel a little more comprehensive. That only took an hour and half.
This weekend was fun. On Saturday Tim and I packed up our stuff and headed up north to Kettle Moraine for the Second Annual Camping Expedition Although we got a somewhat late start, we were the first ones there (much to our surprise). It was a beautiful, warm August evening as our guests started to arrive. In attendance this year: Sarah and Dave, Tim’s co worker James and his wife Amy, Eric and Kate, brother’s Ben and Phil (with the dogs: Ludo, Hoggle and Wrigley) and Matt and Sigrid. Unfortunately for Matt and Sigrid they arrived just as the 10% chance of rain turned into a two hour downpour. They managed to set up their tent in like 15 minutes, and keep it dry. At one point, several people retreated to their tents to stay out of rain, which left a few of us…mainly the Benninghoff’s and Kenosha folk to stand out in the rain and hold a garbage bag over the fire to keep it from going out.
But the motto seemed to be “We can still get drunk.” Which we did, I will have you know.
Eventually the rain stopped. Matt scared away a naked man (who was going to streak us, but chickened out at the last minute and stood by the road watching us, mere feet from a disturbed Sigrid). The fire was surrounded by a moat of water, which we drained, and then covered the mud with weeds which created the terrific mess the next morning. All the moles came out of their holes and sat around the fire and dried off, or at least steamed. All in all, everyone was good sport about the rain, and accepted it as part of nature.
Sunday most everyone left. The brothers, Eric and Kate, the dogs and Tim and I all went to look at the Ice Age Museum (with James and Amy who left us here) and then continued to do some hiking on the Zilmer trail. Along the way, I found some blackberries and started to pick them. When the hike was over and we sat down on the benches in the front to water the dogs, I put my camera down. When we left, I was concerned about the blackberries, and we were all too tired to be aware and look behind us. Thus, I didn’t realize until 15 minutes later that I forgot my camera. We went back….not 40 minutes after we left, and it was gone. Although the water bottle that Eric put next to it, was still there. That camera was a birthday present to me from Tim, the first year we were married when money was scarce.
That was the firs time I have ever lost a camera. I felt better later when I learned that virtually every Benninghoff has lost a camera. I guess I just joined the ranks and we really are family now. 
But the moral of this story is …no pictures. Not for awhile. Although I did develop a roll last Friday, which has some pictures on it that I might get around to putting up soon.
Monday, the core Roger’s Park group (Us, and Eric and Kate) drank cowboy coffee in the morning sun, packed up and went home. I was SO happy to take a shower when we got back. I had brought only one pair of pants, which had gotten covered in mud on Saturday night. When we stopped at Burger King for a potty break and food on the way back, nobody stood close to us in line. After the shower, I watched Murder She Wrote, took a nap and then got up to see Investigative Reports “Wage Slaves: Nickled and Dimed in America.” Afterward I thought about the life I live now, and how different it is from when I grew up…and how few people I hang out with now know about the real hardships of life. I also know, not to get a divorce after I have kids. That seemed to be the key indicator that threw most of the people on the program, and that I know in real life, into real problems.
