My Afternoon at the Rock Hall

Today, I honored the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Downtown Cleveland. The trip started off with a Ham and Turkey Sandwich on Multigrain Flatbread for lunch at Quizno's in the Galleria at Erieview, which is a few blocks away from the Rock Hall. After lunch, I then walked down to the Rock Hall. After a fifteen minute wait (Outside and Inside), I was finally able to enjoy the exhibits. The area of music grouped by city and region was pretty impressive! The Women in Rock exhibit was comprehensive! However, as a temporary exhibit, it is on the two most cramped floors of the Rock Hall. Since it was a free day, the museum was very crowded! Despite the crowds, I was able to spend some time looking at the signatures of the Inductees! The walkway is very narrow, but the exhibit is on one side of the corridor. Before I went to the upper floors, I watched part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Concert! When I arrived in the theater, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were performing! Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel's performances of "New York State of Mind" and "Born to Run" were incredible. After the program concluded, the video immediately started over! I stayed until Stevie Wonder started performing because Ledisi (Grammy Nominated R&B artist) was scheduled to be performing live soon! I had a good view of her as I was on my way out of the building! The crowd loved her! In general, I enjoyed my experience at the Rock Hall this year! The recent renovations have enhanced the building! I plan to be back next year, if not sooner!

Merry Orthodox Christmas!

Today is Christmas on the Julian Calendar! I would like to wish anyone celebrating today a Merry Christmas! I did not visit Ziggy's Produce, which is at the corner of Broadview and West Schaaf Roads in Cleveland, to wish them a Merry Christmas, but I may visit tomorrow to ask the clerk if he or she had a nice holiday! (I sometimes buy my lottery tickets there!) Once again, Orthodox Christmas was "ignored" by the general population.

I will update my traditional Christmas in the near Future!

Christmas 2011 (Part 1)

I had a very nice Christmas! I enjoyed seeing my great-nieces Kendal and Hayden. The rest of the guests were fun, too. The food was very appetizing. Maggie and Mike's new furniture is very nice. Since the couches were covered, they avoided spillage.

I appreciated my Gift Card to Wal Mart that Kendal and Hayden's father Mike "sent" to me. I haven't spent any of it yet, but I will. Kendal and Hayden's Gift Cards to Toys 'R' Us were sent in the mail because I forgot to bring them to the celebration. Since my other great-nieces Amy Marie and Emily were not at the celebration, I mailed the gift cards to them (On time, I hope).

Have a great New Year!!

There Was Cranberry Sauce, but It Was Forgotten.

When my sister Maggie called our house yesterday, she told my brother Bob that there was cranberry sauce, but she forgot to place it on the table. As a result, it was not served or offered for leftovers. The lack of Cranberry sauce helped to make Thanksgiving interesting.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

I had a very nice Thanksgiving! The participants were my sister Maggie, her husband Mike, my brother Joe, my niece Mandy, and her husband Paul. We had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, Crescent(?) rolls, gravy, Strawberry Jell-O, and Heavenly Hash (Sometimes known as Ambrosia, it usually involves Mandarin oranges, Maraschino Cherries, coconut, and a few other ingredients. It is a family tradition.) The appetizers were included with the dinner, consisting of Cheesy pretzel rods, Mozzarella sticks, and TGI Friday's Potato Skins. Dessert was Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate cheesecake, and Marie Callender's Coconut Cream pie (It was frozen at dessert time, so I had it later on Thanksgiving night.) The food was all delicious! I didn't even notice that Cranberry Sauce was missing this year until I had leftovers tonight for dinner. I can always buy some when I go shopping. Thankfully, the leftovers will be gone a lot sooner than the ones from my birthday party, but I enjoyed the previous leftovers a lot.

In addition to eating, Mandy, Maggie, and I used plastic body parts to decorate a pumpkin. The Christmas Gift Exchange was started. Bob and I will finish it either tonight or tomorrow. This also happened last year when we were not sure if my niece Marnie and her husband Mike were participating because they backed out the year before because they were planning to buy a house, which was successfully completed about a year and a half ago. I haven't picked yet!

Eventually, Mike drove me home. Paul and Mandy picked me up! I am grateful because carrying mashed potatoes and containers on the bus would be too funny! I spent the rest of the evening relaxing.

On Friday, I visited Rocky River Public Library. After leaving the Library, I went to a nearby Dollar Tree to pick up some cough drops. I missed my bus in the process, but I walked down to Wooster and Detroit Roads (I was at Detroit and Linda when I was at Dollar Tree.) to catch another bus. I took that bus downtown. I barely catch my bus to Dibella's Subs in Independence to take advantage of a BOGO deal that was only good on Black Friday. It wasn't too crowded when I got there, but as I was eating, the line was almost out the door. I had a Turkey, Ham, and Roast Beef Sub on Multigrain Bread. I brought home a Corned Beef Sub on Multigrain Bread. I enjoyed my Sub, but Bob thought his was only average. If they had a Reuben, Bob would have received that instead. I then caught a bus to Marc's in Midtown Plaza in Parma, so I could buy Bob some bananas that were on sale. I didn't have a lot of time to do anything else, because I wanted to catch a bus that was coming soon. (At the time of this trip, the buses run thirteen minutes apart. The first bus was five minutes behind schedule.) Thankfully, the next bus was a little late, so I made it. I then bought lottery tickets for yesterday and today. Once again, I relaxed when I came home.

Eventually, I will tell the stories that I have been wanting to tell.