DETROIT (AP) -- Thousands of United Auto Workers walked off the job at General Motors plants around the country Monday in the first nationwide strike against the U.S. auto industry since 1976.
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said that job security was the top unresolved issue, adding that the talks did not stumble over a groundbreaking provision establishing a UAW-managed trust that will administer GM's retiree health care obligations. Gettelfinger complained about "one-sided negotiations."
"It was going to be General Motors' way at the expense of the workers," Gettelfinger said at a news conference. "The company walked right up to the deadline like they really didn't care."
Gettelfinger added that the union and GM's management would return to the table Monday.
Workers walked off the job and began picketing Monday outside GM plants after the late morning UAW strike deadline passed. The UAW has 73,000 members who work for GM at 82 U.S. facilities, including assembly and parts plants and warehouses.
General Motors Corp. had been pushing hard in the negotiations for the health care trust -- known as a Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association, or VEBA -- so it could move $51 billion in unfunded retiree health costs off its books. GM has nearly 339,000 retirees and surviving spouses.
"This strike is not about the VEBA in any way shape or form," Gettelfinger said at an afternoon news conference in Detroit.
"The No. 1 issue here is job security," Gettelfinger later said, adding that the union also was fighting to preserve workers' benefits.
GM spokesman Dan Flores said the automaker was disappointed in the UAW's decision to call a national strike.
"The bargaining involves complex, difficult issues that affect the job security of our U.S. work force and the long-term viability of the company," he said. "We remain fully committed to working with the UAW to develop solutions together to address the competitive challenges facing GM."
It remained to be seen what effect the strike would have on the automaker and consumers. The company has sufficient stocks of just about every product to withstand a short strike, according to Tom Libby, senior director of industry analysis for J.D. Power and Associates.
Worker Anita Ahrens burst into tears as hundreds of United Auto Workers streamed out of a GM plant in Janesville, Wis.
"Oh my God, here they come," said Ahrens, 39. "This is unreal."
Ahrens has seven years at the plant, where she works nights installing speakers in sport utility vehicles. She waited outside the building Monday for her husband, Ron Ahrens, who has worked there for 21 years.
The couple has three children, including a college freshman, and Ahrens worried about how they would pay their bills.
"This is horrible, but we're die-hard union, so we have to," Ahrens said. "We got a mortgage, two car payments and tons of freaking bills."
Gettelfinger said he believed the UAW's leadership owed "our membership an answer as to why they're out there."
"This is as serious as anything that any of us do," he said. "There's not one person on this stage ... that wanted to see these negotiations end in a strike. Who wins in a strike? But again, you can be pushed off a cliff, and that's what we feel like happened here."
Despite the strike, GM stock rose a penny to $34.95 in midday trading.
Monday, September 24, 2007
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!
34 years ago today, Ed and Claudia were married! Congratulations Mom and Dad! I think you need to scan some of those great old wedding photos and put them on the blog! I think you should take a picture of yourselves today side-by-side with one from the day you got married!
Congratulations mom and dad! We are glad you got married! We are glad you had us kids! We love you both very much!
Congratulations mom and dad! We are glad you got married! We are glad you had us kids! We love you both very much!
Friday, September 21, 2007
just something to think about
i just kind of enjoy statistics in general and was forwarded a link to www.zipskinny.com. It's kind of interesting. anyway, here is a little comparison
-ryan
General Information:
ZIP 46733 84403
Population: 19,046 34,976
Density*: 110.8 961.8
Housing Units: 7,642 13,071
Land Area (sq. mi.): 171.9 36.4
Water Area (sq. mi.): 0.3 0.0
* People per square land mile
Educational Achievement:
ZIP 46733 84403
<9th grade: 3.9% 4.7%
9-12th: 10.2% 8.8%
H.S. grad: 48.0% 21.3%
Some coll.: 19.7% 27.3%
2 yr deg.: 7.2% 7.4%
4 yr deg.: 6.4% 19.9%
Grad/prof: 4.7% 10.5%
H.S.+: 86.0% 86.5%
4 yr+: 11.1% 30.4%
Marital Status:
ZIP 46733 84403
Never married: 22.3% 25.9%
Married: 59.3% 57.8%
Separated: 1.1% 1.5%
Widowed: 7.8% 5.3%
Divorced: 9.6% 9.6%
Stability/Newcomer Appeal:
ZIP 46733 84403
Same home 5+ yrs: 63.1% 48.5%
Household Income:
ZIP 46733 84403
<$10,000: 5.9% 7.6%
$10,000-$14,999: 5.9% 5.5%
$15,000-$24,999: 13.8% 12.4%
$25,000-$34,999: 14.3% 13.5%
$35,000-$49,999: 20.3% 19.2%
$50,000-$74,999: 21.9% 19.5%
$75,000-$99,999: 11.4% 8.8%
$100,000-$149,999: 4.6% 7.8%
$150,000-$199,999: 1.2% 2.8%
$200,000+: 0.6% 3.1%
Median: $41,829 $43,067
Occupation:
ZIP 46733 84403
Mgt./Prof.: 22.5% 36.3%
Service: 14.9% 13.9%
Sales/Office: 22.4% 27.1%
Fish./Farm./Forest.: 0.7% 0.3%
Constr./Extr./Maint.: 11.5% 9.0%
Prod./Trans.: 28.1% 13.4%
Unemployment/Poverty:
ZIP 46733 84403
Unemployed: 2.4% 4.3%
Below Pov. Line: 5.3% 10.3%
Race:
ZIP 46733 84403
Hispanic/Latino: 4.9% 14.6%
White*: 94.1% 79.9%
Black*: 0.2% 1.3%
Native American*: 1.0%
Asian*: 0.2% 1.8%
HI/Pac. Isl.*: 0.2%
Other*: 0.1%
Multi*: 0.4% 1.5%
* Does not include individuals in this racial group who identify as Hispanic/Latino.
Age/Sex:
ZIP 46733 84403
Males: 49.3% 49.7%
Females: 50.7% 50.3%
Median Age: 35.7 30.0
-ryan
General Information:
ZIP 46733 84403
Population: 19,046 34,976
Density*: 110.8 961.8
Housing Units: 7,642 13,071
Land Area (sq. mi.): 171.9 36.4
Water Area (sq. mi.): 0.3 0.0
* People per square land mile
Educational Achievement:
ZIP 46733 84403
<9th grade: 3.9% 4.7%
9-12th: 10.2% 8.8%
H.S. grad: 48.0% 21.3%
Some coll.: 19.7% 27.3%
2 yr deg.: 7.2% 7.4%
4 yr deg.: 6.4% 19.9%
Grad/prof: 4.7% 10.5%
H.S.+: 86.0% 86.5%
4 yr+: 11.1% 30.4%
Marital Status:
ZIP 46733 84403
Never married: 22.3% 25.9%
Married: 59.3% 57.8%
Separated: 1.1% 1.5%
Widowed: 7.8% 5.3%
Divorced: 9.6% 9.6%
Stability/Newcomer Appeal:
ZIP 46733 84403
Same home 5+ yrs: 63.1% 48.5%
Household Income:
ZIP 46733 84403
<$10,000: 5.9% 7.6%
$10,000-$14,999: 5.9% 5.5%
$15,000-$24,999: 13.8% 12.4%
$25,000-$34,999: 14.3% 13.5%
$35,000-$49,999: 20.3% 19.2%
$50,000-$74,999: 21.9% 19.5%
$75,000-$99,999: 11.4% 8.8%
$100,000-$149,999: 4.6% 7.8%
$150,000-$199,999: 1.2% 2.8%
$200,000+: 0.6% 3.1%
Median: $41,829 $43,067
Occupation:
ZIP 46733 84403
Mgt./Prof.: 22.5% 36.3%
Service: 14.9% 13.9%
Sales/Office: 22.4% 27.1%
Fish./Farm./Forest.: 0.7% 0.3%
Constr./Extr./Maint.: 11.5% 9.0%
Prod./Trans.: 28.1% 13.4%
Unemployment/Poverty:
ZIP 46733 84403
Unemployed: 2.4% 4.3%
Below Pov. Line: 5.3% 10.3%
Race:
ZIP 46733 84403
Hispanic/Latino: 4.9% 14.6%
White*: 94.1% 79.9%
Black*: 0.2% 1.3%
Native American*: 1.0%
Asian*: 0.2% 1.8%
HI/Pac. Isl.*: 0.2%
Other*: 0.1%
Multi*: 0.4% 1.5%
* Does not include individuals in this racial group who identify as Hispanic/Latino.
Age/Sex:
ZIP 46733 84403
Males: 49.3% 49.7%
Females: 50.7% 50.3%
Median Age: 35.7 30.0
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Order your advance copy TODAY!
One of the projects that I have completed at my job is to help with the editing and production of this book, "Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy" Thre is a very nice "thank you" to me at the beginning and I must say that I am very proud of all the work that I did on it! Don't you think this is going to be on the top-seller list for Amazon.com?
Just wanted to share with you all!
Love and such
Just wanted to share with you all!
Love and such
Monday, September 17, 2007
Dinner Tonight?
So our realtor got us a crock pot as our closing gift. I've never had one nor had I ever used one so we'd thought we'd fire it up today since Brandon is actually in town this week. We went with a pork roast with potatoes covered with a ranch sauce comprised of cream of chicken soup, cream cheese and ranch seasoning. The house smells pretty good. It's been cooking for about 3 hours. And by the looks of the clock, we'll be eating in one hour and 56 minutes.
We'll let you know how it tastes.
xo!
-M
Karl's week of food
Monday
8:30 am – Vanilla yogurt and granola (8oz yogurt, 2oz granola)
1:00 pm – tuna salad (tuna, mayonnaise, ranch, relish) not a sandwich because we have no bread (6oz), apple
10:30 pm – two spoonfuls of peanut butter, two chicken kabobs (chicken, green and red peppers, zucchini) with 2 cups rice
Tuesday
12:35 am – One more chicken kabob
12:46 am – Haagen-Dazs caramel ice cream (2 cups) it was light by the way
8:55 am – Yogurt and granola same as yesterday
4:30 pm – Two bowls of Honey Bunches of Oates with vanilla clusters (skim milk)
6:00 pm – Pb&j (I tend to make a pretty heavy pb&j. If my memory serves me correctly I got this from Ryan who does the same) and some milk straight from the carton.
Aside: I try to drink from the container whenever possible. I also only use one Tupperware container as a bowl/plate. Whenever I’m done I wash it and the spoon I use and put them back in my drawer. I figure if everyone did it we would never have dishes. Not everyone else is on the same page though.
8:30 pm – 6 inch spicy Italian on wheat from subway
11:30 pm – 2 orders of grilled stake taquitos, a caramel apple empanada and some of emily’s diet mt. Dew
Wednesday
8:15 am – yogurt and granola again
12:45 pm – two slices of sbarro’s pizza from wright food court, my freshman eatery. Very nostalgic.
6:45 pm – Had a naked juice at work… the protein one. 40 grams of protein in a 12oz drink… cool dude.
9:45 pm – 2.5 cups of tuna noodle helper, some Parmesan flavor. 2 chocolate cookies
10:45 pm – 2 pb&js and some milk
Thursday
8:30 am – yogurt and granola
4:45 pm – two sugar cookies
5:10 pm – bowl of honey bunches of oats with peaches. (skim milk)
6:15-9:00 pm – We had a picnic and I had lots of cookies (probably 10-20) some potato salad (about 2 cups) some barbeque chips and a chicken breast… and two root beers… I ate way too much.
Friday
9:15 am – one packet of apple cinnamon oatmeal
12:10 pm – two chicken breast deli meat sandwiches… and two more cookies
7:10 pm – Naked juice at work again… protein one again
10:00 pm – Baconator value meal and a jr. bacon cheeseburger from wendy’s… I had a root beer with the meal… I know I’m fat… leave me alone. These wendy’s commercials lately though have been really stupid and I’m thinking about boycotting them too.
Saturday
10:10 am – yogurt and granola
11:00 am – two bowls of honey bunches of oats with peaches (skim milk)
12:00 pm – two chicken breast deli meat sandwiches
4:00 pm – Some cereal samples from the sample lady… like a handful
7:00 pm – 9 chocolate turtle things. These teenagers outside of Kroger were selling them trying to make money for basketball uniforms. How could I say no? Not to mention I had cash on my, which I never do.
10:15 pm – Someone’s leftover breadstick, 2 bowls of honey bunches of oats with vanilla clusters
11:20 pm – Big can of Bush’s baked beans… I didn’t finish the whole thing, but still… I probably shouldn’t have eaten it.
Sunday
9:45 am – yogurt and granola
12:00 pm – two chicken breast deli meat sandwiches
9:15 pm – some gummy worms
11:15 pm – about half a pizza and four breadsticks and diet soda from pizza express
8:30 am – Vanilla yogurt and granola (8oz yogurt, 2oz granola)
1:00 pm – tuna salad (tuna, mayonnaise, ranch, relish) not a sandwich because we have no bread (6oz), apple
10:30 pm – two spoonfuls of peanut butter, two chicken kabobs (chicken, green and red peppers, zucchini) with 2 cups rice
Tuesday
12:35 am – One more chicken kabob
12:46 am – Haagen-Dazs caramel ice cream (2 cups) it was light by the way
8:55 am – Yogurt and granola same as yesterday
4:30 pm – Two bowls of Honey Bunches of Oates with vanilla clusters (skim milk)
6:00 pm – Pb&j (I tend to make a pretty heavy pb&j. If my memory serves me correctly I got this from Ryan who does the same) and some milk straight from the carton.
Aside: I try to drink from the container whenever possible. I also only use one Tupperware container as a bowl/plate. Whenever I’m done I wash it and the spoon I use and put them back in my drawer. I figure if everyone did it we would never have dishes. Not everyone else is on the same page though.
8:30 pm – 6 inch spicy Italian on wheat from subway
11:30 pm – 2 orders of grilled stake taquitos, a caramel apple empanada and some of emily’s diet mt. Dew
Wednesday
8:15 am – yogurt and granola again
12:45 pm – two slices of sbarro’s pizza from wright food court, my freshman eatery. Very nostalgic.
6:45 pm – Had a naked juice at work… the protein one. 40 grams of protein in a 12oz drink… cool dude.
9:45 pm – 2.5 cups of tuna noodle helper, some Parmesan flavor. 2 chocolate cookies
10:45 pm – 2 pb&js and some milk
Thursday
8:30 am – yogurt and granola
4:45 pm – two sugar cookies
5:10 pm – bowl of honey bunches of oats with peaches. (skim milk)
6:15-9:00 pm – We had a picnic and I had lots of cookies (probably 10-20) some potato salad (about 2 cups) some barbeque chips and a chicken breast… and two root beers… I ate way too much.
Friday
9:15 am – one packet of apple cinnamon oatmeal
12:10 pm – two chicken breast deli meat sandwiches… and two more cookies
7:10 pm – Naked juice at work again… protein one again
10:00 pm – Baconator value meal and a jr. bacon cheeseburger from wendy’s… I had a root beer with the meal… I know I’m fat… leave me alone. These wendy’s commercials lately though have been really stupid and I’m thinking about boycotting them too.
Saturday
10:10 am – yogurt and granola
11:00 am – two bowls of honey bunches of oats with peaches (skim milk)
12:00 pm – two chicken breast deli meat sandwiches
4:00 pm – Some cereal samples from the sample lady… like a handful
7:00 pm – 9 chocolate turtle things. These teenagers outside of Kroger were selling them trying to make money for basketball uniforms. How could I say no? Not to mention I had cash on my, which I never do.
10:15 pm – Someone’s leftover breadstick, 2 bowls of honey bunches of oats with vanilla clusters
11:20 pm – Big can of Bush’s baked beans… I didn’t finish the whole thing, but still… I probably shouldn’t have eaten it.
Sunday
9:45 am – yogurt and granola
12:00 pm – two chicken breast deli meat sandwiches
9:15 pm – some gummy worms
11:15 pm – about half a pizza and four breadsticks and diet soda from pizza express
3:24 a.m. Monday morning insomnia
Well hello everyone. What? A post from Betsey? at 3:24 in the morning? What is going on? Actually in Indiana, mom and dad are up for their day, so I thought I should get up too. Okay, not really. I woke up at 2:15 and just couldn't get back to sleep. I've been catching up on some emails and thought I would post to the old Gimbel Family Forum. I thought I would give you all a weekend wrap-up from Team Hawkins. Keep you posted on our exciting lives here in LA. I will title it, Top 10 activities from Team Hawkins during the weekend of September 14 through September 16.
10. Friday drive to Fresno. One of my roommates from my time in Washington D.C. got married and had an open house in Fresno, where she grew up. Fresno isn't really a pretty town, and it is kind of in the middle of nowhere. It wasn't exactly on my top 10 list of places to go in CA, but it was nice to see my friends April and Cord (the bride and groom)
9. In Fresno, Richard and I wanted to find a yummy restaurant to eat at. We have been trying to limit our out-to-eat activities and only try new restaurants, or something that we are really looking forward to. Frankly, this is because we end up eating out at La Salsa all the time because it is close and we are lazy. So, we drove around Fresno for a while and ended up at Red Robin. Man, that place is a gut-buster. Delicious, but the rest of the night, we both felt sick.
8. Saturday was the bowling and cupcake extravaganza for my college friend Emmalee's birthday. I have to say, although it was great to celebrate Emmy's birthday, the highlight was the fact that I won bowling! I even broke 100 (okay, my score was 106, but still...over 100). Richard thinks that with daily practice, I could have a career. I think the best part was that I totally came from behind, with two strikes right at the end and won. I seriously was in last place the entire time.
7. Okay, since the last one really didn't focus on the b-day celebration as it should, I thought I could at least devote two highlights to the birthday party. Emmy is turning 28 on the 18th and apparently 28 is the year of the kitchen products. We gave her a pink cupcake carrier to transport all her yummy treats and her brother and sister-in-law gave her a deviled egg tray, for displaying her deviled eggs. She promised to invite us all over for deviled eggs and cupcakes. Yummy! (by the way, did you know that Casey makes the best deviled eggs? Have her make you some...seriously!)
6. This should really be the best highlight, number 1 from the weekend...but I seem to be following a chronological order rather than an excitement order...so we'll just keep it here. Saturday night we went to a lecture with IRA GLASS!!! That is right people. IRA GLASS! My NPR boyfriend. Richard is slightly threatened. He was discussing radio and storytelling at USC. He talked and shared stories for over an hour and then took questions from the audience. It was a great show and a fun date for me and Richard. Plus it was a cheap date! USC students and staff got in for free! Thank you tuition dollars!
5. We can't ignore the fact that Richard and I managed to squeeze in some very exciting homework this weekend. That is all we are going to say about that.
4. I made Jello! (maybe I am getting sleepy again...this is getting pretty boring!) I found some jello in our pantry and decided to make it. Richard was skeptical and thought that Jello was a lame idea. I convinced him otherwise when I busted out the whipped cream for the top. It was a tasty dessert!
3. Church! Where I said from the stand that I have a mental illness (long story people...this is getting to be a long post. I'm not even going to go into that).
2. Law and Order! The 7th season of L&O SVU is not that great. For every really riveting and exciting episode, there is one episode analyzing Benson or Stabler's psyche. I don't care about them as people! That is the beauty of L&O! You don't have to follow the story line each week, you can just enjoy the 42 minutes of adventure and criminal behavior and then call it a day. I don't care if Stabler has anger management issues and his wife left him! We had to watch two episodes to compensate for the one boring Stabler-based episode.
1. Richard! I love spending the whole weekend with my husband! He is the number one highlight because he is my favorite part of the weekend. Plus he is the best husband ever. I got out of bed at 2:14 and went to the living room. 10 minutes later, he got out of bed and joined me. He is right now sleeping on the other couch. He makes himself miserable for me! Isn't that just so sweet.
Maybe I should try to go back to sleep for a few hours.
10. Friday drive to Fresno. One of my roommates from my time in Washington D.C. got married and had an open house in Fresno, where she grew up. Fresno isn't really a pretty town, and it is kind of in the middle of nowhere. It wasn't exactly on my top 10 list of places to go in CA, but it was nice to see my friends April and Cord (the bride and groom)
9. In Fresno, Richard and I wanted to find a yummy restaurant to eat at. We have been trying to limit our out-to-eat activities and only try new restaurants, or something that we are really looking forward to. Frankly, this is because we end up eating out at La Salsa all the time because it is close and we are lazy. So, we drove around Fresno for a while and ended up at Red Robin. Man, that place is a gut-buster. Delicious, but the rest of the night, we both felt sick.
8. Saturday was the bowling and cupcake extravaganza for my college friend Emmalee's birthday. I have to say, although it was great to celebrate Emmy's birthday, the highlight was the fact that I won bowling! I even broke 100 (okay, my score was 106, but still...over 100). Richard thinks that with daily practice, I could have a career. I think the best part was that I totally came from behind, with two strikes right at the end and won. I seriously was in last place the entire time.
7. Okay, since the last one really didn't focus on the b-day celebration as it should, I thought I could at least devote two highlights to the birthday party. Emmy is turning 28 on the 18th and apparently 28 is the year of the kitchen products. We gave her a pink cupcake carrier to transport all her yummy treats and her brother and sister-in-law gave her a deviled egg tray, for displaying her deviled eggs. She promised to invite us all over for deviled eggs and cupcakes. Yummy! (by the way, did you know that Casey makes the best deviled eggs? Have her make you some...seriously!)
6. This should really be the best highlight, number 1 from the weekend...but I seem to be following a chronological order rather than an excitement order...so we'll just keep it here. Saturday night we went to a lecture with IRA GLASS!!! That is right people. IRA GLASS! My NPR boyfriend. Richard is slightly threatened. He was discussing radio and storytelling at USC. He talked and shared stories for over an hour and then took questions from the audience. It was a great show and a fun date for me and Richard. Plus it was a cheap date! USC students and staff got in for free! Thank you tuition dollars!
5. We can't ignore the fact that Richard and I managed to squeeze in some very exciting homework this weekend. That is all we are going to say about that.
4. I made Jello! (maybe I am getting sleepy again...this is getting pretty boring!) I found some jello in our pantry and decided to make it. Richard was skeptical and thought that Jello was a lame idea. I convinced him otherwise when I busted out the whipped cream for the top. It was a tasty dessert!
3. Church! Where I said from the stand that I have a mental illness (long story people...this is getting to be a long post. I'm not even going to go into that).
2. Law and Order! The 7th season of L&O SVU is not that great. For every really riveting and exciting episode, there is one episode analyzing Benson or Stabler's psyche. I don't care about them as people! That is the beauty of L&O! You don't have to follow the story line each week, you can just enjoy the 42 minutes of adventure and criminal behavior and then call it a day. I don't care if Stabler has anger management issues and his wife left him! We had to watch two episodes to compensate for the one boring Stabler-based episode.
1. Richard! I love spending the whole weekend with my husband! He is the number one highlight because he is my favorite part of the weekend. Plus he is the best husband ever. I got out of bed at 2:14 and went to the living room. 10 minutes later, he got out of bed and joined me. He is right now sleeping on the other couch. He makes himself miserable for me! Isn't that just so sweet.
Maybe I should try to go back to sleep for a few hours.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Let's hear it for MARJORIE!
I just got a call from my big sister and she got a job offer as a global marketing director (or something like that. I'm terrible at remember things like that) She will have a job again! I'm sure Brandon is probably more excited than she is.
We love you, Marjorie and are so incredibly proud of you!
xo
-K
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Rude professor
I realize professors are busy, but I found this email to be pretty rude so I responded accordingly.
RE: Gerwigs
With all the recent traffic on the blog about the Gerwigs, I thought I'd share an anecdote.
We made many really cool friends in England, but one of our very favorites were the Bassetts. They're about our age and have the funniest four year old girl and a little baby named Oscar. Anyway, we were eating dinner once and we got to chatting about where we were from. I mentioned I was from Indiana and Ryan casually mentiones that he has only known one other person from Indiana.
"Yeah, there was this elder in my mission...Gerwig. He was really into hunting. Kind of a weird guy, always killing squirrels and stuff."
I was gobsmacked. Ryan had served in Greece with Mike Gerwig. And he thought he was weird too.
It's a small world after all.
We made many really cool friends in England, but one of our very favorites were the Bassetts. They're about our age and have the funniest four year old girl and a little baby named Oscar. Anyway, we were eating dinner once and we got to chatting about where we were from. I mentioned I was from Indiana and Ryan casually mentiones that he has only known one other person from Indiana.
"Yeah, there was this elder in my mission...Gerwig. He was really into hunting. Kind of a weird guy, always killing squirrels and stuff."
I was gobsmacked. Ryan had served in Greece with Mike Gerwig. And he thought he was weird too.
It's a small world after all.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Christmas List
I know this is a bit early, but I was doing the Christmas Exchange List for my family, so I decided to do the Gimbel list too to ease all our future consciences. I used Edward's 10 sided die to make sure it was random. (Nerd) So here it is:
Ryan gives to Brandon
Casey gives to Richard
Margie gives to Betsey
Brandon gives to Emily
Betsey gives to Meridth
Richard gives to Margie
Edward gives to Karl
Meridth gives to Casey
Karl gives to Ryan
Emily gives to Edward
Hooray for the holiday seasons.
love,
Meridth
ps. Miss you all
Monday, September 10, 2007
FOOD!!!
So I know it might sound boring but I think i'm going to record for you all what I eat in the next week. I think one of two things will happen. You will be amazed at all the junk I eat and it will stimulate some good conversation. You will become more aware of what you eat and it will help Gimbel Nation become more healthy. That or I will be self-conscience about all the peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches I eat and decide to eat better.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Ryan's quick quiz
The answer to one of Karl's questions shocked me a bit. 3 speeding tickets Karl? really? WOW.
I bet no one in the family can guess how many speeding tickets i have had and for what amounts over the limit. I'd be willing to put some money on this one. I'll give you a little hint. i have never had a speeding ticket out here in Utah.
-ryan
I bet no one in the family can guess how many speeding tickets i have had and for what amounts over the limit. I'd be willing to put some money on this one. I'll give you a little hint. i have never had a speeding ticket out here in Utah.
-ryan
Saturday, September 8, 2007
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