My brother-in-law’s, Shannon Lowe’s, viewing was on Monday, and when we all arrived, we were surprised to see a new tattoo on his left arm: a red and black nautical star. Shannon had mentioned to Heather and me a couple weeks earlier that he’d always wanted one, but none of us had any idea that [...]

My brother-in-law (Heather’s brother) was shot and killed Friday morning in a small town outside of Marion, Indiana. Shannon Michael Lowe was protecting a family friend, whom we also knew and loved, from her husband. The husband shot our friend and Shannon before shooting himself; all three died within a matter of minutes.
These past few [...]

So this Thomas Kinkade dude, the “painter of light” who creates the gaudiest paintings of cottages covered in pixie dust in gumdrop forests… boy is he creepy looking:

Don’t let that paintbrush he’s holding fool you. I think he actually paints his fru fru fantasy lands with that ’stache.

Update: Vorderman Volkswagen sent us a check for $116 and offered apologies for taking so long in coming to a resolution for the problem. I’m satisfied with the final resolution, although I’m disappointed that it took a BBB complaint to get to this point.
I’m not going to lie; I’m a pretty picky consumer. For example, [...]

It took about 3 months, but I finally finished listening to all 1464 songs in alphabetical order on my ipod.  It was challenging, sometimes I wanted to skip over songs, and some songs I wondered why I even had them…but I did it.
Some songs I dreaded such as the Theme to 28 days (which I [...]