Reading a blog post from my friend Whitney Mathews in Kansas City inspired me to write this, so here goes. It’s that time of year when everyone blogs about the year. I’ll sum up with my personal experiences in 2009 with some bullet points: Experienced the inauguration while living right here in Washington, DC. (January) [...]
Life
She said YES! We’re engaged!
Yeah yeah, it took me 6 years to do it, but it’s done! I asked Lindsey to marry me! I convinced her to get out of the apartment Friday evening after our 4-mile training run and visit the Jefferson Memorial. To us, that memorial is magical. Every time we go there, we usually end up [...]
My First Year in Washington, DC
Today is my first anniversary working and living here in Washington, DC. After being in St. Louis my whole life, I accepted a job as Digital Development Director for WUSA 9, the CBS affiliate and flagship broadcast station for Gannett. I started August 4, 2008. I’ll get right into my year in review: What has [...]
Ellen’s 50th Birthday
For many years, I kept hearing about how Ellen was going to get a limo for her birthday, and it happened! It was a party I couldn’t miss and flew back home just for the weekend to be there with her and the family. Ellen, Erin, Ashley, and the McDermott family all hopped in the [...]
A familiar face in Rockville
My friend Rob Osterwise texted me last week saying he would be visiting Washington, DC on business. Rob and I go way back to the early days in high school. We’ve stayed friends throughout college and long thereafter. He left St. Louis in 1994 with Tracy (Weber) for a new job, and just last year [...]
Twestival for those who Twitter in DC
Twestivals are community gatherings to meet those who use the microblogging social network Twitter and raise money and awareness for charity. The buzz around the Twestival for Washington, DC was hightened on Twitter a couple weeks prior to the event. There were other Twestivals happening at the same time as ours, including ones in London, [...]
Lindsey’s parents visit DC!
It’s been a couple months since we’ve seen any of our family, and this weekend Lindsey’s parents, Rocky and Vicki, drove in to see us. They arrived Friday evening, and we kicked off the weekend with a great dinner at Gordon Biersch. We caught up with life and family and shared some samples from the [...]
It’s been a month in DC!
I sit here eating jellybeans, which are free courtesy of the General Manager’s assistant Dorea. She keeps a small dispenser of them nearby. See those last three jellybeans at the bottom? The red, orange and green ones? Yep. That’s the last handful of sweets I’m going to eat until I weigh 190. Crazy isn’t it? [...]