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Birthday Shenanigans Roundup


Shenanigans might be too strong (and misleading) a word to describe my birthday celebrations this year. That is, unless you too, consider family dinner, Denny’s, and a hotel stay shenanigans.

Since there are no alternative words synonymous to shenanigans while you’ve been “adulting” for a long time now, I’ll just leave it be. Even though my birthdays are no longer all-out dusk to dawn affairs (it’s been years!), that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy them – in a more subdued, reflective way.

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New Year’s Eve at the Movies


Happy new year family + friends! Wishing everyone a fantastic 2019!

We ended the year the same way we started 2018. At the cineplex, dining on the prix fixe menu in the VIP lounge and watching Aquaman in 3D in our VIP seats. Cuz that’s how we roll on New Year’s Eve! #missedthecountdown

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Immortalized in the Ferris’s Room Documentary

ferris's room documentary with jonathan schmock
OMG! I’m in the Ferris’s Room documentary! Wha?!?

My friend John pinged me to tell me that he was watching the documentary on the Hollywood Suite channel when the scene cut to me posing with Jonathan Schmock at the Ferris Fest Parade (!!!) Schmock plays the maitre d’ from Chez Quis, who snidely questions Ferris Bueller’s claim that he’s Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago.

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