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Birth Day
One year ago, a small creature opened his eyes for the first time, surveyed his surroundings, and screamed furiously for twenty minutes.
This morning, a slightly larger creature opened his eyes, surveyed his surroundings, and beamed impishly for twenty minutes.
Things aren't so bad on this side, are they?
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Obligatory recap; observation; non-binding commitment
With the help of Jim's parents, we've mostly completed tiling the kitchen floor! Mostly = there are a few we'll need to take up and reseat within a month or so. Next time: lay the cement board properly. And consider that the floor might be not only unlevel, but also uneven. And try to determine why the grout dried to a dried-mud color rather ( Read more... ) -
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Connor was gifted with a 5' cut spruce for his first Christmas! We followed the sign pointing into a little warehouse out of curiosity, intending to poke at prices and consider our options. We're used to standard commercial trees costing $40-$60 for a smallish one and didn't expect the $15-$20 we found. Excited that we may get a tree after all ( Read more... ) -
Accursed guinea pigs
So we're having Thanksgiving this weekend, since our friends we usually have Thanksgiving with aren't available until the weekend and I had to work Thursday anyway. We standardly celebrate holidays on different days than the rest of the country, so this is not a big deal. Yay, people we love traveling leagues to see us for a brief period of time ( Read more... ) -
Project: 101 things in 1001 days
I'm not going to make a special filter because i'm cutting the list and details so you can easily skip over it if you're not interested. There are well over 100 things (167 or so) so some are not measurable and some are vague.
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Jim: "Steal a chicken's egg, you have eggs for a day. Steal a chicken, you have eggs for a lifetime." -
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I've realized that i'm a failed perfectionist, and that i won't be satisfied with the way things are going until i realize that i'll never be satisfied with the way things are going. Things with which i need to learn to be satisfied ( Read more... ) -
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There's something surprisingly satisfying about literally cutting away at the landscape to create a food garden. We initially tried whacking at the grass with a weed removal instrument since we couldn't find a scythe and knew this was beyond the abilities of the reel mower. Very frustrating and labor intensive, and especially aggravating on an 85 ( Read more... ) -
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I'm tired of using "because we're green hippie freaks" as an excuse, so I'm falling back to future plans of dandelion wine as my excuse for not buying a lawn tractor and not allowing the neighbor to cut the back meadow ( Read more... ) -
This is where we used to live
Ended up staying until mid-morning the day after lease ended, trying to finish packing and clean. While cleaning i also tried cleansing, but didn't have time to do anything outside of that other than put a letter in a jar with a few stones and a coin and hide it under the basement stairs ( Read more... )