Month: August 2005

No Extra Protein, Please

I don’t know what we were thinking. Lee and I found ourselves in a mostly unfamiliar area of town around lunchtime today, and were looking for a place to eat. There, in a strip mall, was a Korean… Read More

My Crowbar and Me

We know our kitchen renovation will be expensive, so we’re trying to save money when we can. We decided to do the demolition of the existing kitchen ourselves. We figured, if we mess it up it’s no big… Read More

Here’s To Our Future

About a week before we moved into our new house, Lee and I took one of our many drives by to look at it and hope and dream. Sometimes we would pull into the driveway to pretend it… Read More

House Karma

I don’t have to work today, so I thought I might sleep in just a little bit. But no – my eyes began popping open about 5:30 a.m. I was able to go back to sleep off and… Read More

Somebody Needs To Be Slapped…

…I just haven’t figured out who, yet. If I knew exactly who was to blame, I’d be warming up my back-handed bitch slap. I’m no longer on the verge of freaking out. I’m in total freak out mode…. Read More

Boxes boxes boxes boxes boxes boxes

Right now, it’s looking like we’ll close on the sale of our current house Wednesday. That’s great, but that’s also in 3 days. It’s beginning to sink in just how much work we have to do between now… Read More

Great news!

We got a phone call this morning – one we had been waiting for for ages it seems. The people buying our house finally got their loan stuff figured out, and want to close the deal middle of… Read More

What Will I Wear?

I graduated from high school 10 years ago, and had been wondering if my class would have a reunion. I hadn’t heard, so I assumed my lazy class president was sleeping on the job. I was a little… Read More

Let the Packing Begin

Nearly every room in my house is now crowded with cardboard boxes. But instead of making me nuts, seeing the boxes makes me glad, because they’re signs of progress. The last week has been crazy. So crazy I… Read More