Stevie Nicks Night at Drag Bingo
Posted by Michelle on Jun 26, 2024 in Uncategorized
Hayley and I met some friends in Winston-Salem to check out our dear friend Anna Yacht’s drag bingo event!!
London
Posted by Michelle on Oct 4, 2023 in Jeff, Michelle
Jeff and I went to London for eight days for our 25th anniversary! It was a magical trip – Stonehenge, Westminster Abbey coronation chair since 1200 and the Graves of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, Shakespeare, Dickens, Darwin, Kipling, Churchill, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, etc. MacBeth at the Globe for open theatre in the round, Wicked at the Victoria Apollo. Beatles private taxi tour with walking across Abbey Road. Lillywhites – 5 story, 160 year old sporting goods store. British Museum private tour with Rosetta Stone, Parthenon Sculptures, mummies and the Bust of Rameses the Great. Soho, Carnaby Street, Chinatown, Beefmaster Guards…
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2022 Yeah I’m still around
Posted by Michelle on Dec 26, 2022 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle, More Family
Well after Mom, Dad and Cathie all died and all the Covid isolation, I didn’t feel like updating anything much. But it’s time to get back to normal.
As tough as things were, a lot of good things happened too. Trips to Boston, DC, Charlotte, Annapolis, West Jefferson and more. Visits with extended family, old and new friends. New babies, adoptions and graduations. Swearing ins, Galas, all sorts of great events. We even painted the house and I got a new Mercedes Benz (Hayley has my Jeep, lol). I’m healthy and loved – so much to be grateful for in my life.
So my 2022 Flickr collection is now updated with lots of albums – right before 2023 starts, haha.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hillison/collections/72157720451633351/
QiJong Class Videos
Posted by Michelle on Sep 1, 2021 in More Family
Sharen recently participated in a QiGong class that presented a program for their whole village of Warm Hearth. She and her fellow participants were amazing!
The Main Show
Spin Finale
Let’s Dance
Hugh
Rods 1
Rods 2
Graduation and Beach
Posted by Michelle on Sep 1, 2021 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
Hayley graduated university in May!
More Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hillison/sets/72157719087503433/
And then we went to Nags Head for a week before she started the “real world”
More Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hillison/sets/72157719497162849/
2021, another lost year.
Posted by Michelle on Jul 5, 2021 in Hayley, Michelle, More Family
Everyone lost a ton in 2020 with Covid, mine sucked because both my folks were diagnosed with stage four cancer – I’m an only child to divorced parent who live 30 and 90 minutes from me. 2021 started with losing my Mom in February, then my Aunt Cathie a few weeks ago. Cancer is insidious, it takes everything from you then most of the time it kills you anyway. My Aunt Cathie took her own way out before cancer could take her. I’m still struggling with that.
I feel like I’m untethered and I’m learning way too much about estate procedures. And that Bank of America is the worst place ever to have an account when someone dies.
Intertwined with that, is our our pride and joy over Hayley graduating college (Criminal Justice major, Psychology minor). We are thrilled that Hayley was hired for the first job she applied for and she works for the State of NC in Public Safety.
Graduation was the last time we saw my Aunt Cathie too. I’m so glad she came with us. Bittersweet though.
I’m slowly trying to get back to normal or whatever the new normal will be for me. I’ll get some photos up soon or you can just look at them over https://www.flickr.com/photos/hillison/collections
Joanne “Jo” Falconer Perry, https://www.cremnc.com/obituary/joanne-perry
Katherine “Cathie” Helen Falconer https://www.cremnc.com/obituary/katherine-falconer
I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled
Posted by Michelle on Jul 6, 2019 in Humor, Michelle
I’ve shared this so many times on social media over the years because it is literally one of my favorite humorous short pieces ever. Melinda Taub, thank you.
Dear friends, family, and Austrian nobility,
Captain Von Trapp and I are very sorry to inform you that we no longer plan to wed. We offer our deepest apologies to those of you who have already made plans to travel to Salzburg this summer.
Amsterdam and Paris
Posted by Michelle on May 24, 2019 in Hayley
More pics to come but a few from Hayley…
1973 Throwback
Posted by Michelle on Nov 5, 2018 in Michelle
Mom found a great old video of mostly me but some other family too from 1973. Mom and Dad both young, Uncle Mike playing with me. I wish it had more than just a glimpse of Grandma as well as wishing the original converter from old tape hadn’t removed the audio. It’s still a lovely look back!
