As I write this post, there are cabinets being installed in the kitchen below me. Thank God. You know I love going out to eat, but I may turn into a Bruegger’s cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese (and, let’s be honest…hot chocolate) if I have to call that lunch too many more times. I’m […]
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Artwork Looking for A New Home
I don’t “get” art. We know this. But I love photography. I don’t “get” it either… I am learning more and more about proper composition of a photograph (thank you, Lisa!), but sometimes it just catches my eye because it’s pretty. Enter last year’s Lakefront Festival of the Arts silent auction. I was wooed in […]
The First Four Days
I could sum up this weekend with “my lamb, do we have a lot of stuff”, but that’s no fun, is it? Why say something in one sentence if you can say it in 105. Thursday Morning: The movers are to arrive between 8 and 8:30, so Randy and I set the alarm for 6:30. […]
Last Night In 94th Street
It is the last day in my house. Not the house I grew up in. Not a house my parents retired in. My house. The house I bought using every questionable mortgage practice available in 2005. The house that only has my name on the deed and loan. My house. Even I am getting a […]
On A Stormy Sea of Moving Emotion
I’ve known this was coming for months. OK, maybe we only picked a moving date two weeks ago, but I knew it was bound to happen sometime in the near future. (Dear God, I don’t think I could have taken two houses much longer…) But the bags are not packed. The walls are not all […]