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March 27, 2007

Savage Chickens Makes Me Laugh

http://www.savagechickens.com/blog/2007/03/monkeys.html

Every thing's more fun than a barrel of monkeys! Hee!

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The long road to moving

Terry and I have decided that we're going to move to a new house by the end of this summer. Much though we love our city place, we've started to crave more actual space to live in. I want a fancy kitchen with actual room to cook. We'd like our master bedroom to have a reading/computer nook.

Where are we going to go? Mt. Airy, of course. It's where all the cool kids want to live 'someday.'

Of course, it's not that easy. We can't just pack up and go. Well, we could, but not if we want to get the full value of selling our house. So this spring will not only be cleaning season, but remodeling season.

Our shopping list: 1 new deck and 1 or 2 new bathrooms. It's going to be busy, tiring, and messy. I'm a little worried about it, because this is our first house, and I've never planned such big projects before. Thankfully, our realtor, whom we have kept in touch with since buying the house, is quite excited about the prospect of selling it, so he's going to offer advice. Just as soon as we clean up enough to have him over...

I'm still completely scared about the prospect though. Upgrades, coordinating selling and buying so we don't end up homeless, putting stuff in storage, getting a new mortgage. Much though I think my tv-based education on real estate will help, I don't know how prepared I am.

So I need to keep an eye on my goal. Will that be enough? Only time can tell!

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March 13, 2007

DST's latest victim: My teeth

So, I headed to the dentist today for my regular cleaning. I walked in, said hello to everyone, and went to sign in, when Annette, the world's best dental-office-worker noticed that she had my appointment down for 2pm.

I had thought it was 2pm, too. But because of DST, I checked the appt card she gave me back in Sept in case technology had failed me. I don't make too many appointments that far in advance, so I hadn't really checked for these sorts of problems before. The little paper card said 3pm, so I waited to go at 3.

Now, we'll never know if it was DST or a clerical error. Annette blamed herself and put me into a cancellation spot tomorrow, because she's sure it's her fault. She took it really hard, because she's just that awesome. And that's why I'm blaming DST.

Stupid DST.

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March 12, 2007

I'm back!

So, for a long while, my blog has been empty and silent. Those of you who asked me about this already know why - I had a self-imposed punishment of not being allowed to blog until I finished wedding thank you notes. I figured I couldn't write stuff for fun until I had written the things I needed to do.

Finally, I'M DONE!!!!!! The remaining notes were mailed out by the end of February. Yes, it took me twice as long as it's supposed to take, but at least I did it. Everyone who gave a gift got a note. I'm not much of a hand-writing things person anymore, so it was a fair amount of torture. Terry had the extremely unfun job of writing the addresses on the envelopes, which I actually consider to be more torture, but he seemed to tolerate it okay.

So I hope to be back here blogging more.

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