Archive for the 'Steelers'

1. First, a giant thank you to every single one of you who donated, tweeted, retweeted, Facebooked, or in any way helped with the Make Room for Kids fundraising effort this year. The Amazon wish list is empty, which helped close the funding gap we were dealing with. The kids at The Children’s Home will get their computers and XBOXes and movies and games and printers and TVs, while the kids in the units we’ve already outfitted at Children’s Hospital will get the extra games...
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I began watching this game at Las Velas where the kids and I were dining with my husband’s family. At half-time, I headed home with my kiddos and listened to the third quarter while driving. Then I watched the fourth quarter in my living room while my daughter built her Minecraft kingdom and my son studied William Penn. Did you know after William Penn’s death, one of his sons, Thomas, who was the leader of the colony called Pennsylvania, claimed to have in his possession a...
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Yesterday, we watched the first part of the game at my sister Pens Fan’s house where we dined on the best kept secret wings in the eastern burbs: Black and Gold wings from Colonial Grille  in downtown Irwin. Then we listened to the second quarter on DVE in the car heading to Upper St. Clair. Then we watched the rest of the game with my in-laws who are visiting for a month from Cancun, Mexico (as you can imagine, this weather is not their favorito mucho mas queso. I think I got the...
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I worship at the church of Google Image.  If it exists on the vast expanse of Internet, Google Image can find it. Lately I’ve noticed that Google Image will provide you with “visually similar images” to the one you’re searching for. Ending sentences in prepositions is the new black. This is how it’s supposed to work: Sometimes Google nails it and sometimes … it doesn’t. 1. Steely McBeam Similar to everything from SpongeBob to … well...
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1. October is kicking my ass, you guys. In so many ways. Today, I actually said to my husband, “I can’t wait for winter so I can get snowed in for a week and get caught up on shit.” It’s okay. I bitchslapped myself so you don’t have to. So this post is me, getting caught up on LOTS of shit. 2. I’m in the early stages of researching my 2012 Yinzer Gift Guide for Pittsburgh Magazine and I’m hoping to have the list of suggested Burghy Christmas...
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