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- August 17th, 2008
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Was it Professor Plum in the conservatory with the wrench?
Instead of just having everyone over to dinner for her birthday this year, MysteryMan’s sister hosted a murder mystery party. The big question of the night… Who killed Nathan Dockafeller? The suspects… The mad scientist, the come
- August 13th, 2008
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DIY Book Review: The Barn House (by Ed Zotti)
DIY lovers, welcome to the wonderful world of DIY books. And not, insert-joist-A-into-foundation-B kind of DIY books either, but actual stories. If there’s anything I love more than Doing It Myself, (okay, and MysteryMan) it’s books. And
- August 11th, 2008
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Gas Station History
Before I start this story, I just have to say… these things always happen to MysteryMan. When we first started dating forever ago (okay, okay, two years ago, but it feels like forever and plus he’s been flirting with me since sometime bac
- August 10th, 2008
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Fun with Gas (and possible explosions)
Okay, actually, nothing exploded. Even though I may have, at one point today, run bodily through some brush, dived, and covered my head for fear of spontaneous combustion. Seriously, I did not. (Despite what you may or may not hear from other people
- August 3rd, 2008
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Eat Happy: Homemade Cherry Pie
I actually didn’t even know that I was a fan of cherry pie until last year when MysteryMan showed up at my house with a gallon bag of hand picked sour cherries for me to “do something with.” Up until then I’m pretty sure my ex
- July 30th, 2008
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Wherein I interview a guy at the DIY Network
I gotta admit, it’s a little bit fun to have Ahmed Hassan from the DIY Network say my name on camera. (Although not nearly as fun as watching him spray that chick in her white denim skirt with mud.) A month or two ago the lovely Margot from a
- July 29th, 2008
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Eye level with a Canadian Goose
Alternatively titled: One of us is a Wuss. Do you want to know what this is a picture of? This is a picture of me, petrified. And I’m not generally a wishy-washy person. I like spiders and snakes and guns just fine. I’m not a huge fan of
- July 27th, 2008
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It’s gonna look like this.
Since MysteryMan has imposted the One. Project. At. A. Time. rule in regards to the Memorial house, and I can’t verbally talk about all of the wonderful things I think we should do to the place, I decided a visual representation might be better
- July 23rd, 2008
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Exceedingly likely that I fall from a great height.
It’s been a couple of years since I did the kind of major house remodleing project that requires picking out a lot of stuff. Like deciding on coordinating-but-not-too-similar cabinets and flooring and kitchen appliances, but way bigger since M
- July 16th, 2008
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Eat Happy: Fresh Raspberry Ice Cream Topping
aka “The best thing I’ve ever had on vanilla ice cream” What I Used: 1 cup fresh raspberries 1/2 cup water 1/2 cup white wine 1 cup sugar What I Did: Step 1: Don’t Eat ‘Em All It’s hard, but restrain yourself.
- July 14th, 2008
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Memorial House Tour
Our tour of the Memorial House starts with the living room, and its Bright. Green. Carpet. (These previous owners were no where near as bad as my previous owners… in fact, they even stripped all of the white paint off the wood trim and cabinets
- July 13th, 2008
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Testing the limits of our relationship.
MysteryMan and I thought perhaps this month wasn’t challenging enough, what with both of us giving up alcohol for 30 days, one of us starting a new job, and collectively having two road-rashed limbs, one flat tire, a bad reaction to some medica
- July 10th, 2008
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Vertigo (And things I hope never to do again.)
Today I ate half of a bagel that landed cream cheese side down in construction-site dirt. I still had 3 more hours of walking up and down a 30-foot hill in my future and hadn’t eaten breakfast… and yes, I did debate for about 20 seconds
- July 5th, 2008
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Checking Things Off The List
Find Dream Job: Check Add Blogroll to Sidebar: Check Do Laundry: Um… moving on. The First & Last Thing I Will Ever Say About This At least some of you out there who keep up with this blog on a regular basis know that I’ve been searchi
- July 1st, 2008
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Opulence
If having a TV screen built into the mirror of your bathroom isn’t the definition of “excess”, then I don’t know what is. Because god knows you wouldn’t want to miss SpongeBob reruns in the 90 seconds it takes you to br
- June 26th, 2008
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Totally Worth It
I spent the better part of my waking hours today breathing the soup fresh-air of Summer and slogging around through this… … in a cracked work boot that allowed mud and small bits of grit to seep up around my toes. Which didn’t eve
- June 23rd, 2008
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At First Sight
If you’re wondering what this is… it’s a picture of me, falling in love. Yes, with rusted, cracked, apparently duct-taped, windows… which happen to belong to this: Look. At. All. That. Space. For. Tools. Is there anyone else
- June 18th, 2008
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Like Legos, But Bigger
It has been a long time since I have stepped in the shower at the end of the day and watched the water flowing to the drain turn black. And not resulting from a skin condition either… this is from what I like to call a really hard days work. Fo
- June 13th, 2008
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Likes to get her fingers dirty (with mortar)…
A couple of weeks ago I started my big summer project (big being a very relative term as it definitely is not as big as, say, a badass pergola), which, in case you missed that post, is to rehab the entryway of my darling 80 year old house. Step
- June 12th, 2008
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Eat Happy! Garden Fresh Potato Salad
Because I know you haven’t salivated nearly enough yet today… The one good thing about being booted mercilessly out of Spring and into the hot, muggy oppressiveness of Summer? Cookout days are back again! (Not that we weren’t grill
- June 9th, 2008
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Because working with paper doesn’t make me sweat…
I had to beat my printer into submission over the weekend so that I could finally put some crookedbrooms business cards together. See? Fun. Seems that I have been starting more computer/printing projects in my free time recently, as opposed to wood
- June 7th, 2008
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Color
June has grabbed my little part of Ohio in her sweaty fists and dropkicked us right into the middle of summer. Thus ends the three days of moderate temperatures that constitue “Spring” in the City of Trees. Along with the potential for en
- June 4th, 2008
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The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
The Good The good news is that I weighed in on Monday at 121.5 pounds. So at least the scale is moving in the right direction again. And that was a feat considering how much birthday cake I ate between Friday and Monday. Like for every other meal. Th
- May 29th, 2008
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Pink-on-Pink & Heaven
Today was a pink-on-pink day… …as requested by my oldest and dearest friend, who I first met when I was sixteen days old. She will tell you stories of our childhood wherein I bribed, beat, begged, and otherwise cajoled her into leaving
- May 27th, 2008
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Weight Loss Challenge: Week 5
Previous Weight: 122 Current Weight: 124 Goal Weight: 115 Um…That’s weird. Hey, shouldn’t those numbers be moving the other way? Even weirder is that on Friday the scale read 120 pounds. So it’s not even that I gained 2 lbs
- May 26th, 2008
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I plead insomnia.
Which is a lot like pleading insanity– because I am completely raving mad– except that my eyes don’t ever close. Between Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, I got a grand total of around 9 hours of sleep. And I’m the kind o