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So, since it's been a bit over four years since Dad died, Mom finally decided earlier this year to sell her house in Oklahoma City and move up here to Kansas City to be near her kids.  It's just the two of us, Jen and I, with our families here, and we live about 15 minutes apart.

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Okay, so now that it's been two months since our whole house renovations have been complete, and we've stopped travelling QUITE all over the place, Derek and I have taken the time to retreat to our individual studios to make music and art, respectively.
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 Time to get in the lake!  YAY!  Lugging this thing down to the water alone is not fun - it's much easier when Derek and I both go, because we can carry the boats at their end handles.

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Tonight was kinda fun.  After working out and working on the house, I elected to attend Dr. Sketchy's anti-art life drawing night, featuring a local burlesque performer and friend, Annie Cherry.  The event was held in a loft on the fourth floor of a West Bottoms building, and replete with a kitchen and full bath, it sure felt like it was someone's ( Read more... )

Today will mark almost the (not bitter) end of the major house projects. Today, we install doors and baseboard trim in the basement. It's the LAST room, folks.

We honestly won't know what to do with ourselves when it's over. Socialize? Make art and music?

Read?

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Even though Derek didn't feel the greatest, with some stomach thing, we had a fairly good time last night, for our once-in-a-great-while splurge kind of evening.


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...was a telephoto lens for the digital camera. Yay! It's allowed me to take some shots with a greater depth of field, keeping more things in focus.


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I mean, I GET that Ed Benes likes women. I GET that he likes their rumps. But, Newsarama put up a preview of #5, which included the cover and the first 5 pages of interiors. And, in those first 5 pages, we're treated to this:


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