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Archive for January, 2008

Gluttons for Punishment

We’re up to our ankles in glue chippings and dust.  We’re tiling.  Remember that lovely kitchen I bragged about a few weeks ago?  Here’s what it looks like this morning:

It is a huge project.  We were grossly misled by a well-meaning buddy who told us we’d be able to “knock that thing out in half […]

Getting Used To

We’ve been a one car family for about six months now, since we returned Nate’s fraud-mobile to the crooked thief who rolled back the odometer and sold it to us with “100,000″ miles on it, (which turned out to be a 100,000-mile fabrication from its actual mileage.) With our purchasing pride still reeling from […]

Heart Matters

I’ve been keeping a little, (but growing,) secret for about twelve weeks now. In my uterus.  And up until today, I would have described my feelings about this impending arrival as a curious amalgam of relief, gratitude, disbelief and sort of cautious, restrained excitement. 
But this morning I got to hear the sound of that little secret’s heart for the very […]