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With the money we still have that the government didn't take, the Guy and I have been interviewing contractors to repair/repaint the trim on our house, which is so bad as to be shameful. There aren't any termite infestations that we can see at this point. We probably need to have an inspection, too. BUT anyhow ( Read more... )

I just brushed another chihuahua sized clump of undercoat from Goldy's coat. I've been brushing him steadily for short stretches for about three weeks now, and holy hairball. I thought I was making sure he was brushed and declumped. But whoa, Goldy! He's got a whole pack of chihuahuas buried in there.  It's a slow process, and I don't want to ship ( Read more... )

At 11 :45am (give or take) the house started shaking, and Mermaid, Little Guy, Mermaid's tutor, me, and the dog, raced outside once we realized that the shaking wasn't stopping like it usually does. It was loud, I could see the roof above me moving, but nothing fell off shelves and no one else in the neighborhood ran out of their house except our ( Read more... )

Just a few days ago, I went and bought an original model Dyson vacuum. I happily went and vacuumed my living room and den rug (a dense shag thing, ten years old at least by now) and filled the clear container in a few minutes. I called it a day ( Read more... )

 A couple of days ago, I went to Target, after much hemming and hawing and finally bought a mini-stairstepper.  Mostly, I bought at first for me to use, when I'm watching TV, or to use in the morning after taking the kids to school: I've been finding lots of reasons not to go to the YMCA lately (bad bad me).

What *happened* is, while the kids are in ( Read more... )

I have a huge stack of Everyday Foods magazines (those are the digest sized mags published by Martha Stewart but have some excellent information in them) that I hardly ever look through. I'm slowly going through them and removing the pages with recipes on them that look like I'd actually USE. I also have a few cookbooks that I'm probably going to ( Read more... )

 Pillsbury Toaster Scramble Egg, Bacon and Cheese Biscuits (or whatever they want to call them) are addictive. They're better and tastier than they have any right to be. I hate you, Pillsbury!


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Well, the heater pooped out on us about five weeks ago, and I finally called the fix-it repairman yesterday. He's here now, fixing it. Apparently the mother board (!) on the machine died on us. It's a 13 year old model. We've already spent going on $2300 bucks on this thing in the past year, if not more. Yeah, I think it's time for a new one. We're ( Read more... )