Month: August 2005
No Extra Protein, Please
I don’t know what we were thinking. Lee and I found ourselves in a mostly unfamiliar area of town around lunchtime today, and were looking for a place to eat. There, in a strip mall, was a Korean… Read More
My Crowbar and Me
We know our kitchen renovation will be expensive, so we’re trying to save money when we can. We decided to do the demolition of the existing kitchen ourselves. We figured, if we mess it up it’s no big… Read More
Here’s To Our Future
About a week before we moved into our new house, Lee and I took one of our many drives by to look at it and hope and dream. Sometimes we would pull into the driveway to pretend it… Read More
House Karma
I don’t have to work today, so I thought I might sleep in just a little bit. But no – my eyes began popping open about 5:30 a.m. I was able to go back to sleep off and… Read More
Somebody Needs To Be Slapped…
…I just haven’t figured out who, yet. If I knew exactly who was to blame, I’d be warming up my back-handed bitch slap. I’m no longer on the verge of freaking out. I’m in total freak out mode…. Read More
Boxes boxes boxes boxes boxes boxes
Right now, it’s looking like we’ll close on the sale of our current house Wednesday. That’s great, but that’s also in 3 days. It’s beginning to sink in just how much work we have to do between now… Read More
Great news!
We got a phone call this morning – one we had been waiting for for ages it seems. The people buying our house finally got their loan stuff figured out, and want to close the deal middle of… Read More
What Will I Wear?
I graduated from high school 10 years ago, and had been wondering if my class would have a reunion. I hadn’t heard, so I assumed my lazy class president was sleeping on the job. I was a little… Read More
Let the Packing Begin
Nearly every room in my house is now crowded with cardboard boxes. But instead of making me nuts, seeing the boxes makes me glad, because they’re signs of progress. The last week has been crazy. So crazy I… Read More