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Have you ever been so busy and distracted that you just didn’t feel like your normal old self? It seems that 2007 has been an entire year of that for me. Every time I sat down to do something for me, I just couldn’t seem to do it. I&#8217 [Read More]

My sanity won out over my house-guilt. Here are the highlights from my overnight trip to the dunes (the full album is available here). And I'm very pleased to say that I didn't think about the house once the whole time! [Read More]

Well, it's never a party for us until something falls off, melts down or smokes us out... Do you think our house can actually make long distance phone calls...to other houses? Take out a hit on us? [Read More]

Every year we go on two family vacations. One with Aaron's family and one to visit my family. Both families are very generous and go to great lengths to lure us away from the House Where To Do Lists Go To Die. In March, my parents lured us to Flo [Read More]

Highlights of a weekend: 1) My parents were here and pulled around the clock babysitting duty with gusto. Even after we gave them the Stomach Flu de Diablo. Mom? Dad? When are you coming back? Grace promises to wear a surgical mask next time. [Read More]

I know I should be much happier to be in the new apartment, but it seems to me that things have gotten decidedly worse. While I used to have my second floor apartment to go up to and shut the door, getting the tiniest partial respite from dust and n [Read More]

This is what we would call Past PeakLet the late autumn doldrums beginHey Felicia, you've just finished gardening for the season at your ugly 70's house...what are you gonna do next?I'M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD! [Read More]

It was all just fun and games until I realized I actually would qualify for a mortgage on a few of these slices of paradise. Aren't there just some days when you are really, really tired of stripping paint, reglazing windows and ripping up old c [Read More]