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Wow, you guys are so amazing. Todd and I got the most fabulous present from you all this weekend - a ton of gourmet meals that just have to be re-heated! I don't even know what to say other than thank you all so very much. Truly, we were blown away by how thoughtful and generous you all are. I started crying when I was reading the message. I ( Read more... )

I know Kathy asked about how we were doing this, so here's a quick rundown of what we are doing: (Disclaimer: We have tiled once before, but we are by no means experts. Also, we wanted this job to be as "easy" as possible so we used pre-mixed mastic and grout while true professionals would prefer to mix their own)

1) We had 4X4 ceramic tile that ( Read more... )

Oy, so sore today...We are having a huge party next weekend (super late housewarming/Todd's going under the knife/excuse to have a party), so of course we have been in crazy house project mode.  We did decide to tackle some of the landscaping around our new patio and that has been keeping us busy.  Todd borrowed a tiller and made some beautiful ( Read more... )

Hmm, what else is going on in my life?  We celebrated the hell out of Todd's birthday last weekend and that was really nice.  I took him to a new (to us) restaurant, Soigne, that was fabulous.  We had champagne and amazing mussels dish to start.  OMG, the mussels were phenomenal - they came in a bowl over glass noodles with pieces of scallops, ( Read more... )

Well, I think it's official that we have totally lost our minds.  Remember how a couple of weeks ago I said that we weren't going to buy another investment property now because of Todd's upcoming surgery?  Yeah, you guessed it, we're probably putting an offer on something today.  *Somehow* we never told the real estate agent to stop sending us good ( Read more... )

Thank you guys sooo much for all of the info! I took the plunge and booked the trip. I hope he doesn't kill me ( Read more... )

Girls, ahem ladies, thanks so much for your vacation ideas for me (nice way to steal my idea bing). I am a really bad wife and have nothing for Todd's birthday which is in 3 days, so I am thinking "shit, better book this surprise trip now and pass it off as your birthday gift". So, I gotta get to booking today or tomorrow. We would be leaving on ( Read more... )

I think that I mentioned before that I have not really been cooking much this summer.  Also, we totally got our of our gym routines since Todd wasn't working and I have been almost exclusively at our downtown Bmore office (no gym) instead of at the cushy, suburb office (nice gym).  School started this week so we are trying to get back into a ( Read more... )

I really need to do a "life" update but it's really the surgery that feels like it's taking over our life. We had the follow-up with the Head of Orthopaedic Surgery yesterday and (as expected) the news is not good. The compression in Todd's spinal cord is very severe (it looked horrible to my untrained eye on the MRI - like an hourglass shape) ( Read more... )