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May 21, 2008: How I'm going to spend our stimulus check
Comments: 11 | Categories: House

Hey, have you guys been reading my friend Liz? She's funny, yo. She also knits. Look what she made for me. So pretty! I look ADORABLE in this. Okay, maybe she made it for the new baby, but don't think...

January 16, 2008: Enrolling myself in Architect School
Comments: 11 | Categories: House

Who here is sick of the baby posts? ME TOO! Let's talk about how much I hate my bathroom. Shall we? Here it is. The hateful Who Designed This Bathroom Anyway? Chimpanzees? bathroom courtesy of my mad rad Paint skillz....

March 6, 2007: Photoblog!
Comments: 13 | Categories: Awesome , House , Project Baby Cheung

Honestly. You people are so demanding. This post is brought to you by my 30-week doctor appointment, where I stepped on the scale backwards and sheepishly muttered, "uhh, does prenatal yoga count?" when my doctor asked, again, if I was...

April 24, 2006: Pedicure weather
Comments: 4 | Categories: Awesome , House , Music & TV

Oh dear. I just wrote the most boring post in the world. It was all about my garden, how I love it so, and how I finally dug and ripped and stomped and dumped enough this weekend to get it...

November 11, 2005: Gobble gobble
Comments: 1 | Categories: Family , House

All right kiddos. According to Lee and Alton Brown, brining a turkey is the way to go. As I honestly have no idea how my family cooks the Thanksgiving turkey (my mom wakes up early and sticks it in the...

October 24, 2005: It was like being back in college
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , House , Stupid thing we did last night

The entire purpose for buying a new house was accomplished over the weekend- my new! red! couches were delivered Saturday morning. But first. We had to move the old couch. BLAST. Getting that couch IN my house in the first...

September 26, 2005: Why can't people just act right?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , House , Rants

So. Five months into this new Owning a House experiment, we have vaulted past the small potatoes painting disasters and drilling holes into fresh walls and into a brand new realm of confrontation: Neighbors. Not the original neighbors. The neighbors...

September 12, 2005: When I get older, losin' my hair
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , House , When I was a kid

For some reason the electrical outlets in the guest bathroom stopped working. The weekend we had guests. And now the outlet in my bathroom stopped working. And I still live there. What's up with that? When my guest told me...

August 30, 2005: Quickness
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Determined to show the world that I am not completely incompetent, I finished staining my bench last night. Read that again, people. FINISHED. So maybe I didn't do it exactly right, with the way I stained one side and propped...

August 29, 2005: When you go out to the woods today
Comments: 2 | Categories: Cranky , House , Ponder , Rants

Internet, prepare yourselves. My husband and I have started a new Project. (I KNOW. WHAT ARE WE THINKING?) The new Project involves an unfinished pine storage bench that took four weeks to arrive and now needs to be sanded, pre-conditioned,...

August 22, 2005: A smattering
Comments: 0 | Categories: House , Rants

Wanting to take advantage of their very first nothing-to-do-no-obligations summer weekend AND both having left work rather early on Friday, the new homeowners spent their entire weekend fixing up the new house. There are actual pictures hung on the wall....

July 27, 2005: Ode to my Husband after the Third Coat
Comments: 0 | Categories: House , Phillip

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height Your arms can reach, when painting beyond my sight With perfect strokes, you are not fazed. I love thee to...

July 26, 2005: Retail therapy
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Extreme Home Makeover, brought to you by Mighty Maggie's Mom Mighty Mom and Mighty Dad came up for a big city weekend this past Saturday. They went out for a local pub dinner, enjoyed some community theater and stayed the...

July 13, 2005: Therapy Thursday
Comments: 0 | Categories: Anxiety , House

Hello Friends in the Computer! You are surely thinking to yourselves: Why hasn't she posted ANY wedding pictures for we are DYING to see them! and What is UP with the lame-o posts lately? For we are bored bored bored...

July 11, 2005: All of the beautiful colors
Comments: 1 | Categories: House , Rants

I am having a housewarming party this weekend. Actually, it's a housewarming/birthday party (and maybe we just added the "housewarming" part because I really just wanted to throw myself a birthday party but didn't want to be all, "Hey, come...

June 3, 2005: At home with the crazies
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K dropped by yesterday to give me back my cocktail shaker. Except she didn't have it. She was TERRIBLY apologetic about something and it took a while for me to figure out that she had dropped the top of the...

June 1, 2005: Inquiring minds want to know
Comments: 2 | Categories: House , Stupid thing we did last night

about the whole getting locked out thing aaaaaand, well gee. I'm just not sure I want to share. Especially since every time we tell this story in person, the listener asks, with great trepidation, "Did you hide a key outside...

May 23, 2005: Salesladies are the Bane of my Existence, Part 234908
Comments: 0 | Categories: House , Rants

I don't have anything fabulously interesting to say today. That's one of the little walls I run into with "blogging" (although the format here is more "web journal" than anything else.) When life is happening, ie: traveling in China or...

May 19, 2005: Update from the kitchen counter
Comments: 2 | Categories: House

We're in. So are most of our dishes, the speakers and receiver tuned to 103.7 fm, towels, sheets, 99% of my books, and every single piece of sparkly stemware in my possession. What we don't yet have: anywhere to sit,...

May 18, 2005: How I'm spending my evenings
Comments: 0 | Categories: House

Do you know how to code a command button and a list box so that it spits out exactly the record I want? If you do, can you please email me? Like, right now? I even have another database built...

May 16, 2005: Pure unadulterated whining. You've been warned.
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , House

Do you know what today is? Today is the day my townhouse CLOSES. I am sitting here waiting for the instant message from Phillip that we are In The Clear, but he is Currently Away and my telepathic attempts to...

May 10, 2005: When it rains it pours
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Welcome to Tuesday, where we are hanging out at www.benjaminmoore.com where you can pick out paint samples and at www.potterybarn.com which isn't the greatest idea for someone whose house payments are going to ensure she gets her daily quota of...

April 26, 2005: So soft and squishy under the toes
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If I want to visit my new nephew- the month-old, extra-adorable, totally loves the sound of his aunt's phone voice, chunk of babywonderfulness in Colorado Springs- I have to leave SATURDAY and come back MONDAY and fly in and out...

April 22, 2005: Why do laundry? We're MOVING!
Comments: 1 | Categories: House

Lately we have been absolute models of restraint regarding our new house. The first week we signed the papers, we drove by every night and sneaked in most of those nights. That weekend the listing agent held an open house...

April 11, 2005: Fifteen random thoughts do not a post make
Comments: 1 | Categories: House , Music & TV

Welcome to the latest edition of My Husband Is Working Late So I'm Drinking Wine And Reading The Best Of Craigs List. And also? Wasn't the world a sad place before Instant Messenger? With Instant Messenger I can sort-of-pay-attention-to my...

April 8, 2005: Neuroses explained
Comments: 0 | Categories: Anxiety , Cranky , House

Here are some good things about today: 1. It's Friday. Fridays are, by definition, extra fabulous. 2. Red Mill Burger for lunch. 3. I have a new database to play with, meaning my crap work gets shoved to Monday. And,...

April 5, 2005: There WILL be chocolates on the pillows
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , House

Never the kind of people to let the Universe get us down, Phillip and I spent Sunday evening in the company of our cheerful and industrious real estate agent writing up another offer on a townhouse. It took nearly two...

March 29, 2005: Today's Poll
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March 25, 2005: Whine. Whimper. Moan.
Comments: 0 | Categories: House , Rants

The dream of home ownership? Currently on pause. Our offer was rejected and it turns out that our next options, well, those are all pending sale too. Yesterday my boss sold his house. He got his first call after it...

March 22, 2005: Project Townhouse Two: The Freaking
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , House

Last night over a Starbucks vanilla latte/oatmeal cookie dinner, Phillip and I signed nine dozen documents instructing banks, brokers, lenders and agents to systematically suck out our savings with a little black coffee straw. It was more than a little...

March 21, 2005: Not giving up on the dream of home ownership
Comments: 1 | Categories: Cranky , House

I would like to know how the businesses of America expect you to go to work and actually be productive when, at the very moment you are typing up a post for your personal website when you should really be...

March 14, 2005: Monday List Mania
Comments: 1 | Categories: House , Rants

Things I can buy now that we no longer are in the market for a house and will not bother saving for a down payment, seeing as how the most we can ever afford in our fair city is the...

March 8, 2005: Wah.
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , House

Hello Internet. Welcome to Tuesday afternoon, except in my brain, where it is Wednesday and I have scheduled fourteen appointments for this evening and where is the phone and I need to cancel and what was I THINKING scheduling all...

January 28, 2005: Sweet dreams are made of prescriptions
Comments: 0 | Categories: Anxiety , House

It's been a long week. Bleah. I don't know that I have much more to say besides that. Ohhh, I'm sure I'll come up with something... It's my new sleeping potion, I think. It's doing wonders for my crazy-making insomnia,...