January 6, 2008
The 12th day of Christmas
Welcome to the world Lucas!
Congratulations Mom Kaarin and Dad Todd!
Mary's favorite Christmas decoration, a gift from Raf a few years ago.
Kamila and Eric's wedding was fantastic!
For more pictures, click here:
Happy New Year!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR DEAR FAMILY & FRIENDS!
Love, Lorraine & Justin
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www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=QJ35127968
From a Housing Panic Blog:
$50,000 in "free" furniture when you buy a Hovnan ian home?
Here's a better idea: LOWER THE D*** PRICE!!!
Love all the cute ways builders tried to
protect their comps, and manipulate the new home sales report's median price.
Love all the sheeple who fell for it (ooh, look
ma! we get a free TV if we buy this home today! ooh!!! who cares what the price
is!! free TV! free TV!! now we can watch Dancing with the Stars and America's
Top Model!!! oohhh!!!!)
One thing about Hovna nian, they have been able
to lower their stock price pretty good -
down 90% now
from the peak.
Oh, remember this attempt by their CEO at
illegal price fixing?
Where he told his competitors to go out and RAISE the prices, right before he
went out and slashed his.
....And for
crying out loud, no more "free" stuff to con people into buying your overpriced
debt-traps.
Hi All
Here's a Hollywood Reporter review of "Charlie & Me" -
Fred's daughter Karen's screenplay - which will air on the Hallmark Channel -
whatever # it is for you on your carrier (Channel #58 at Comcast in NH) at 9 pm this Saturday nite - January 5th!
Fred flies out to California tomorrow & will be back Tuesday nite....
Pam
Charlie & Me
Saturday Jan. 5
9-11 p.m.
Hallmark Channel
Anyone with the courage to watch this film on Saturday night is advised to keep
at least two boxes of Kleenex close by, as "Charlie & Me" is a world class
tearjerker the likes of which you rarely see anymore. I deliver this information
simply as a public service rather than an element of criticism or praise. But
the truth is that as maudlin family fare goes, this Hallmark Channel Original
telepic truly is in a league of its own. I mean, here we have a heart-rending
story about a heart attack victim who moves his workaholic son to locate his own
heart before it's too late. This isn't a movie so much as a triple bypass. It's
also a simple fact that if you can't find a soft spot in your own heart for Tom
Bosley playing a beloved grandpa who lives his life according to the jazz
stylings of Louis Armstrong, it's fairly clear that you need a little bit of
heart surgery yourself. I think they have balloons they can run through your
arteries to fix this sort of thing.
Bosley is the Charlie of the film's title -- Charlie Baker to be precise. He's a
widower in failing health whose heart attack early on signals a ticker whose
expiration date is fast approaching. What's keeping him alive is his feisty and
precocious 12-year-old granddaughter, Casey (a superb and, well, heartfelt
performance by Jordy Benattar). Casey's dad Jeffrey (James Gallanders) is, like
his own dad Charlie, also a widower whose wife died some nine years before. His
way of dealing was to toss himself into work and escape. But no worries. By the
end of two impossibly poignant hours, Jeff will have been so shamed by the
monumental goodness of Charlie that it's safe to presume his heart will open
wide, though less in a surgical than a sublimely sensitive way. That's not a
spoiler. Think of it more as a warning. Life is never quite as monumentally
meaningful and tidy as it turns out to be in Karen S..'s teleplay. But let it be
said beyond any cynicism that the ageless Bosley and the delightful Benattar
enjoy some genuinely bracing chemistry -- and the kid surely can act.
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--Ray Richmond
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Pete