Brewing Days

I'm stealing a bulletin that I did on MySpace.

I finished up the last of the strawberry blond that I wasn't to fond of but people liked it and sucked it down, not bad. It almost time to open up the Oktoberfest that needs another week and I have an IPA fermenting now. Not sure how pale it will be or the oak taste, but it still should be fine. I still have to make a Belgium Ale to get Jon "drunk like a high school girl", a sweet stout, and start the mead all before the holidays. If you got any other ideas let me know and i'll try and squeeze it in the brewing schedule.


Cheers and bottoms up on your glasses.

That is more than the five required so you should all be happy and sing the praises of me. And Jessie for some smooth posting she did last week. So Jessie you get a tip of the hat everyone else gets a wag of the finger cause they don't have this lifesaver.

Colin Powell on Meet The Press

I have to step back and post about a serious topic this week. Yes, it's about Politics... but feel I need to talk about this.

Colin Powell was on Meet the Press this week.
Yes, he's supporting Obama.

That's not the story. It's WHY he's supporting him and the reasoned rationale behind it that blows me away. It's a moment of clarity which is badly needed in this country at this point.

Liz, I'm entrusting to you to make sure Dad sees this.

Whoa!

My post is late this week. But I am still posting ( I have so much to tell you!), Friday was actually pretty crazy so I wasn't able to post.


So Friday was the home coming pep rally. I was decked out in Green and Orange, my class colors and my face had "SOPHOMORES" written across it too. The rally was SO much fun ( I love rallys!) and my class actually kicked butt. We had the kickball tournament and my class won against the frosh, juniors, and seniors. I don't think any of our team got hit. I was in the band, and we got to play our fieldshow, and it ROCKED! Everybody loved it (because everyone loves Queen). It was so much fun. Then I went home and got all prepared for the home coming game! North won obviously. We did our field show which needs a little work. We definitely have played it better. But playing in the stands was super fun. We have this new sweet system on figuring out what we're going to play next which made everything so much easier. My lips were still pretty strong even after playing in the stands, playing the entire field show (which I play constantly in) and playing our boys (fight song for NA) a billion times. My throat however...well I don't think I've screamed so much in my life. When I got home I was so tired I could barely move. So I thats when I decided that I would post all of this today. Because if I had done it Friday night it would have been crap and today I'm awake enough to actually make it pretty lengthy


So Today (Saturday) was also very exciting. I woke up wicked early to take the PSATS, then after 3 awesome adrenaline packed hours I went and did POINSETTIA SALES! Woot! I walked around for 5 hours selling those awesome Christmas plants. My group did really well for only having a half of a day to sell. We sold 50 plants and got about 3 donations. We had the best route!! We went to a yard sale and sold some plants, we went to this house which literally looks like Ireland and sold some plants, we even went to the Bubble house in NA and got the guy to buy a plant. We also met this amazing women on our route. We walked to her gorgeous house and her door led into her painting studio. She was actually painting this wicked awesome piece when we got there. She had paintings ALL OVER the room and they were awesome, I was so jealous. One of my favorites parts was when my friend and I went down this really long driveway and got greeted by three little dogs halfway barking like crazy. They acted tough but I knew they really weren't so we kept going but the tinniest one totally tried to scare us off. I honestly thought he was a beanie baby dog until he moved. He was just adorable, I almost stole him. His owner bought a plant and was actually really nice so I didn't. But I swear to you I almost did.


Today is Bills little party, so happy birthday Bill. Also if any of you guys want to come to one of my games, just comment saying so and I'll find a date for ya. Oh and is anybody going to do the Frank challenge with the story thing? I think I'm going to.
-Liz

Oh and I'm joining the CHESS CLUB!!

Phrank: Happy Birthday!

Yesterday was Lisa's birthday! She's now 22, which is not one of her favorite numbers, but still, Darwin would be proud of her survival. I spent all of Tuesday with her, where we watched the last five episodes of Heroes, and did some more wedding planning. We also picked up her birthday cake and ice cream cupcakes, which was delicious.
Tomorrow, I'm going to take her to Roger Williams zoo for her birthday, so she can see the polar bears, if they are still there. I also get her an awesome birthday present, but I can't say anything about it since it's a surprise. We're gonna go out to eat after the zoo and probably catch a movie back at her house.
This Saturday, my friend from home Kent is getting married, so we're going to that as well. The following weekend is family weekend, so hopefully I'll see some of you up here at Holy Cross.

It's a Sibling Bailout

Is this week the bail-out the sibling week?
Frank, Liz... if you don't want to post, you'll get taken care of.
I am your Big Brother after all...

Anyways, Tomorrow is the 16th. Happy B-Day Bill.

And for my emuation of Anne moment:
I'd normally pad my post with politics, but you all don't care about it.
So here's Beetles' B-Day Song instead.

A Post-- not by Bill!

Hi future sibling-in-laws! I'm covering Bill's rear by posting in lieu of him.
So, L&O:SVU was very good tonight. It even enthralled Greg! Speaking of the little pumpkin-poo he got me the special edition of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

So, I was to mention beer, this being Bill's post, and I was going to refer to Brad Paisley's "Alcohol", but seeing that the oldest Walek sibling has the hots for Brad and like to monopolize him, well, I can't compete with Greg and Brad's one sided "BROMANCE". So I had a few options. Instead of embedding a video, I'm going to suggest 2 to check out.....
a.)Beer for my horses---Toby Keith and Willie Nelson
b.) Keg in the closet--- Kenny Chesney

Yes, I know they are cheesey country, but at least you don't have to yee-haw!!!

Well, kiddos, I'm off to take a shower and watch Jay Leno interview detective Stabler.....
Take care :-)

Everyone Drink up...

Hey, I posted this week... on time...
Though Rays are up 2-1 in the ALCS...

I managed to pick up several old and rare games today. Among them is a complete copy (all 7 disks!) of Phantasmasgoria, Dungeon Keeper 2, Messiah, and a Babylon 5 game that requires a 486/33, Win 3.1, and has a RSAC rating on it. Woot, Go me.

So I'm gonna stop rambleing about and finish off in bill style and talk something about beer related. I'll just stop now and just embed a song. It's Alcohol.

Everyone Drink up...
Except you Liz, you get ginger ale.




Here's the music video... it can be embedded... again!