Stac’s Place

That’s sort of how I’m wired. I don’t like surprises, as a general rule. There’s a short list of other things I don’t like:

beets
cell phone plans, or companies, for that matter
the recent glut of reality shows
basketball
wet socks
whining
the designated hitter rule
practical jokes

I have a history of figuring out surprises. Christmas gifts, surprise birthday [...]

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Levi’s show was a huge success, at least by Sublett family standards. Our house was full of people in town for the show. Grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins…and we all loved the show. It was Kim’s Aunt Lea’s favorite musical, and it would have been her birthday, so it was special to [...]

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Travis Keller posted about the article in Time that lead to Dave Bruno’s site, where he chronicles and details his attempt to get his consumeristic compulsions under control by ridding his life of unnecessary things, living with only 100 things. He’s calling it The 100 Thing Challenge.
Give it a read. What [...]

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We suffered a great loss in our neighborhood today. We knew it was coming, but that doesn’t lessen the sting by any means.
Justin and Amie, Austin and Chase are gone. The truck pulled out with all their stuff inside, and Justin stopped by our house on his way out of town.
It was probably [...]

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We’ve got a houseful of kids with us this week. It’s our church’s Sports Camp week (our summer VBS-type program) and the cousins from Kim’s side of the fam have invaded our domicile.
I love having a full house!
This will be a great week of games, creek walking, Spikes baseball, crazy times around the supper [...]

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While we were in the DR, word got to the Centre Daily Times that some seniors had opted to spend their senior week serving at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. We met with a reporter Monday afternoon, and the paper ran the story today.
So what exactly did we do?

bought and spread 31 (I [...]

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I don’t know how long this will take, but we’re in the process of re-vamping the XStream and House Party sites, and my personal blog will be moving to a new home. I am in serious need of some web savvy person to help. If that’s you, give me a call. Yes, [...]

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So tonight I was trying to get the fire going for our Big Barn Bash, kneeling in close, adding some wood to the struggling fire. The wind was shifting all around. All of a sudden the flames jumped out and got me. I felt the flames gently kiss my hair, and now [...]

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Our local middle school set the captives free today. In glorious celebration, we kicked off the summer with the Big Barn Bash!
We’d been encouraging our students to invite their friends to the Barn for the past month, and we expected a pretty good response. We were blown away.
We had more students show up [...]

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Wow, what a week…we worked hard and played harder. The Dominican Republic is beautiful, and the people are more so.
We got back into State College about 4 this morning. I totally missed Father’s Day with my kids, but Kim had cards for me. I was awake for about 24 hours on both [...]

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