Friday, May 29, 2009

we may all be in the same boat now, but the irresponsible people had a lot more fun

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The facts are these: I purchased a property in 2005 that was near the top of my affordability range for three main reasons: a) It's acro...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

another beautiful day in this neighborhood

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H and I are off to suburbia for the holiday weekend. It's been absolutely gorgeous here in Illinois the past few days. And we have to m...
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Monday, May 11, 2009

Cadiz and H, you are the last team to arrive. I'm sorry to tell you that you have both been eliminated from the Race

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Way back in March, Angel07 celebrated her birthday in style-- Amazing Race style. She and her man, Mark, did a fantastic job thinking up ...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

back, back from Cali, Cali

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I had such a fabulous time in California. The first week, with cc and her family, made me feel as though I had just left the spa without ev...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

no one's going to date you if you get frown lines

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1950s-style Facebook etiquette! via Eric Skiff at Social Media
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Friday, April 17, 2009

I'll work on my belly-to-belly suplex and get back to you

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Just a quick note to apologize for the exorbitant length of that last post. Skimming all that stuff was actually very tiring, so I'm hop...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

milestone: year 4, month 1, day 8

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Apparently the four-year anniversary of this blog sailed by on March 7 and I didn't even notice. On the first and second anniversaries o...
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the weekend isn't complete without the Indian Show

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For the last 20 years or so on local non-cable channels ( in Chicago it's Class A stations that air Polvision, China Star TV and Greek, ...
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Sunday, April 05, 2009

when you're on camera, be sure to sit tight

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"I love the Indian show." "That's obvious; we watch it every single weekend. But they really need to do something about t...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

dipping in

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One of the coolest projects that have kept me busy the last few weeks had me focusing on penmanship. My pal EB is getting married in May, a...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

if the first year is the toughest, we've totally got this

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"Dude, can you believe that as of yesterday it's been a year since you moved here ?" "It doesn't feel like a whole ye...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

the difference: you can give a toddler a time out

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My mom's surgery last Tuesday went well; the doctor said it was rare to see flaps around a hole like that fall closed during surgery and...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

patching up the hole

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My mom's vitrectomy (eye surgery) is at 5:30 a.m. this morning. It is 1:05 a.m. and I'm bouncing off the walls because I made the m...
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Monday, March 09, 2009

this hold music sounds like a perversion of the Knight Rider theme song

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Yesterday I attended a lovely brunch with my college girls. It was raining like nobody's business, so I am very thankful that pp swung...
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Thursday, March 05, 2009

when your elbows are throbbing, it's time to put down the knitting needles

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For someone without a job, you'd think I'd have a ton of time to post. Especially when I have spent entire stretches from 8 a.m. unt...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

all of this has happened before...and it will happen again

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Many moons ago during the heyday of my procrastination, whenever I had a big deadline--after all the socks had been rearranged by wool conte...
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