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A few weeks ago I found myself at Lowe’s searching for a rubber thingy to fix a tilting vanity mirror.
My severe inability to express myself in describing what I needed hampered me from finding the rubber thingy and resulted in purchase of several might-work-if-you-can’t-find-me-a-rubber-thingy things.  Even after I MacGuyver all these things together I’m pretty sure [...]

who lives here?

Home improvement progress is being made.
I am happy to report that we no longer have any fish stenciled on any walls in our house - trout or otherwise.  May they rest in peace under their layers of primer and new neutral colors.

Damn, those previous owners loved them some stencils…

The guest room doesn’t look like this anymore.

My [...]

out damned stuff

For the past few weeks, I’ve been purging.  Bingeing is what happens in the kitchen, purging is everywhere else in the entire house as we make room for a whole new person and all the stuff that she’ll come with.
That said, I felt a little sick by my own excesses last week when I donated [...]

i think there’s a body in the pantry

Last week, I noticed a bad smell emanating whenever I walk by. 
So naturally, I instructed Brett to take out the trash.  I didn’t remember tossing raw meat or anything in there but, eh, you never know.
But here’s the catch…the smell was still there.
So naturally, I instructed Brett to take out the recycling.  Maybe the dregs from empty beer [...]