Personal Life Update: Not Gone Away; Upwards Ticked
My personal life, hanging in the balance (between the uncertain and the unknown) these past few weeks, is about to get very complicated, indeed. But today we finally reached a point where there’s been some actual, concrete decision-making going on, which has helped enormously. Plus, it was the sort of happy occasion that makes the [...]
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Oh, Personal Life, Go Away
Peter and I are having the most awful, ridiculous #firstworldproblem. And Baby and me have had a bunch of doctor’s appointments this week, for separate issues. So adding that to the whole new house and remodeling up-to-our-eyeballs, things are getting a little out of hand. Exhausting, even.
But in a few days everything should be settling [...]
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Lead Paint
Those new lead paint laws meant that the cost of painting our house has gone up by $2,000. Which is, worst-case scenario (original quoted price; might have been less), increasing the cost by a third.
Which means most people simply won’t bother repainting until the paint chips off and gets eaten by local children. Because, [...]
Categories: Politics
That One Minus None
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Anyone Care to Hazard a Guess…
(Because we signed escrow papers today, woohoo!)
…What our Crazy Eddy! All Mortgages Must Go! interest rate is?
(This is the third escrow place I’ve been to for signings, plus I worked at an escrow outfit for a couple of weeks as a temp when we first moved here, and I’m still not entirely sure I get [...]
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It’s August!
Top Gear is already over, it’s barely warmed up, we’ve been under a haze of humid soot (from British Columbia wildfires, I hear), and oh wait! I spent the day making a spreadsheet of all the furniture I want to buy! T minus FIVE DAYS.
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Cook Porn III
I Have Met With THREE Contractors
And a fourth one perhaps next week.
Anyone know if there are any good tells to look for that they’ll disappear halfway through the job and leave you with no functioning sinks and a mountain of broken concrete in the yard? Like maybe a narrowing of the eyes? A twitch of the hand? An expensive pair [...]
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I’ve Left the News Until 10.30 So Instead I’ll Tell You More About the House
Friday, LUNCHTIME: The house gets listed.
Friday, LUNCHTIME: Our real estate agent calls us. Both of us. I’m at Peter’s work for lunch so we’re there together. We agree to meet her at 4.30 that afternoon.
Friday, just after LUNCHTIME: I drive past the house on my way home. I don’t see it. But I’m also [...]
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Hmm, So I Think We Just Bought a House
Further updates as events warrant. When the inspector finds the indian burial ground in the basement, for instance.
/touch wood
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Toy Story III
I haven’t seen it yet (baby), but I’ve allowed myself to break the usual Pixar-related embargo (because this is the first one I haven’t seen in the theaters since I’ve been out of school), and I think it’s probably a bad sign if I can’t get past the spoiler-lite conceptual-overview high-concept plot set-up without welling [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Happy Fourth of July Four Day Weekend!
Ahh, the Glorious Fourth. What are we doing today? Well, I don’t think Seattle does a parade. There used to be two fireworks displays but the economy’s cut that down to one (and only after a last-minute intervention from Microsoft which probably won’t be repeated next year (Seattle’s useless at doing anything without corporate sponsorship [...]
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OH EM GEEE
That thing about design from Steve Jobs hit my Tumblr module RIGHT WHEN MY iPHONE 4 CAME.
<3
Categories: Business & Media
A Tale of Two Artists
Wheat & Weeds quotes a couple of fantastic knock-downs of all our favourite painters of light. Sorry, Painters of Light.
I admit I laughed heartily at the news of his DUI the other day. Especially since he was originally pulled over for not drilling holes for a license plate through the front bumper of his Benz. [...]
Categories: Art and Literature
All We Have to Do Is Wait Until They Die, Boomers, Die
Peter and I have having a heck of a time finding a house. We’ve been looking for months and anything we like is outrageously expensive, and everything we don’t like still sells for those prices. And lord there are some dogs out there.
Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 74, Issue 1 – Aging [...]
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