We had time to kill between the race and the wedding and to be completely honest, that day was such a blur of stuff that I don’t remember what we did between the two events. I remember the highlights - the race, the bath, the giant burger, and the wedding - but nothing else that afternoon.


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It’s Thanksgiving week here at Casa McBride. Normally, as with a majority of American families who celebrate the day, there’s a fair bit of hustle and bustle in the household this week, while we prepare to ritually gorge ourselves on turkey and starchy side dishes. This week is a little different, since next week we’ll be flying out to Las Vegas ( Read more... )

It’s only fair that after devoting a crazy amount of words to writing exactly why GiGi Devlin is terrible, I devote some time to writing about a my experience with a totally fabulous person: Kim Primeau at Topperhats.

Back when ','caption', 'My fantastic husband' );">Eddie and I started to seriously look at wedding stuff, I had decided that I ( Read more... )

Like ','caption', 'My fantastic husband' );">Eddie, I need to get back into the groove of doing this blogging thing. I try, I really do. Honest.

First, in the ever popular saga of NewTech, I present to you a typical interaction with her, which I had the honor of dealing with yesterday afternoon.

NewTech: [putting a bottle of 81mg aspirin, 325 ( Read more... )

This week has had its ups and downs.

On the downside, FlakeyTech called the store on Monday and gave some sort of song and dance about possibly not making it in for her shift because of some sort of easily remedied car trouble. From my limited view of the conversation, I think she was hoping that BossRPh would just say “Oh, don’t worry about it ( Read more... )

When you marry a dude that's not from your country, doesn't have a visa to be in your country when he proposes, and has no idea exactly when (or in our case, even if) he'll be granted a visa, you really can't plan anything. In our case, Eddie and I weren't sure exactly when he'd be able to get the visa interview after my initial paperwork was ( Read more... )

We're still on the hunt for a car. Eddie made a few phone calls yesterday, and I talked to my dad while I was at work. Unfortunately Dad has no leads on anything in our price range, and we're trying to avoid going to a dealership because we don't want to have loan payments and higher insurance payments because we'd need full coverage. We're ( Read more... )