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Laurie

Dirty Deed? Done! Cheap, but not dirt cheap.

By house, moving, sites to see3 Comments

Drumroll please… (Have I requested too many drumrolls lately? I feel like I’ve requested too many drumrolls lately. You would tell me, right?) Anyway. Drumroll, yadda yadda. I am pleased to announce: 206 Hammond Street, our beloved humble abode, is officially for sale. Anyone want to buy a really freakin great house? It’s a 1923 bungalow we renovated ourselves (with a lot of help from Steve), 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 office with its own separate entrance (or 4th bedroom. Do you need 4 bedrooms? We can accommodate! Got a teenager you don’t want crawling out a 2nd floor window…

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June 9, 2006
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To be filed under: Things You Didn’t Know about Your Husband

By moving, thoughts6 Comments

Apparently when you try to sell your house, you’re supposed to make your prospective buyers think you don’t own any clothes, books or dishes — this way they look at your closets, bookshelves and cabinets and instead of seeing your stuff, they imagine their own. It’s like you want to make them think they’re looking at Real Simple magazine or the Hold Everything catalog which makes them think, “Man, I am so not this organized. If I lived in this house, I could be this organized too!” Although actually, this could backfire and you could make them feel guilty about…

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June 6, 2006
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Conflict of interest

By monkeys, thoughtsOne Comment

So I took Lucy to see the pediatric dentist last Monday. Turns out when she dove into the treadmill the previous week she pushed back both her top front teeth, but one is worse than the other, and is a little loose. Luckily Lucy can still bite correctly. If her teeth had moved 1 mm farther, she wouldn’t be able to close her teeth together and the dentist would have to “do something about it.” An x-ray revealed nothing broken and no apparent damage. So we just have to wait about 6 weeks and the tooth should firm up and…

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May 27, 2006
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My day. Ruined.

By sites to see8 Comments

Mr. Nice Guy posted today. Typically, this is an event to be cherished as he’s gone back to work and isn’t posting as often as we would all like. Anyway, he’s cursed me with today’s post, and so I am passing that curse on to you. Originally from Coudal Partners, an excellent and mad creative design firm from Chicago, the idea is to mash up the name of a book with the name of a band. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far: Modest Mouse Tales Modest Mouse Soup Their Black Eyed Peas Were Watching God This Beastie Boy’s…

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May 21, 2006
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Loaded

By moving, thoughtsNo Comments

Whew. My horoscope for today is a little creepy in how accurate it is. Loaded with truth and meaning and “okay already, I get the point” to the extent that I’m a little wigged out. Like, who are these people at Tarot.com (which I access thru my personalized Google homepage), and are they the ones in that white pentimento trailer outside my house with the antenna bungeed on top? You might feel somewhat panicky, as you realize you won’t be able to tie up all the required loose ends prior to beginning a whole new set of projects. Meanwhile, others…

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May 20, 2006
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Art Bruts, part 2

By monkeysNo Comments

Once upon a time, in this post, I lamented Zoe and Lucy’s apparent lack of interest in creating art. Their attention span appeared non-existent and their interest was spotty at best. This was hard on my ego because (a) I’m a graphic designer and (b) I’m a boring narcissist who is struggling to learn that my children are not me and that no one but me expects them to be. Anywho. Narcissism notwithstanding, here’s something about me I bet you didn’t know: Just in case you can’t read it, the teacher wrote in the corner: “This is mama when she…

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May 20, 2006
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Fourteen years later and my heart still goes pitter pat

By thoughts2 Comments

We’re watching the West Wing series finale tonight. Jed Bartlet, the President, duh, has just finished writing a letter to Matt Santos, the President-Elect. He tosses the envelope on the desk, raps his knuckles on the desk, and leaves the desk, and the Oval Office, for what is evidently the last time. Cut to commercial. Bob turns to me and says, “When I’m President, I’m going to leave a Whoopie Cushion in the chair.” Many emotional, drum filled scenes later, President Santos is standing at his new desk reading the letter Bartlet left him. He smiles, looks around the room…

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May 14, 2006
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Drumroll Please…

By house9 Comments

Ladies and Gentlemen who care. We are please to present to you, all the way from the back of the house, the FINISHED KITCHEN! Standing in the doorway to the hall Standing in the doorway to the dining room Standing in the pantry area Looking at the door to the hallway (where the fridge used to be) The Upside Up would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all your support and assistance and pats on the back, as well as your general good humor in dealing with my narcissistic self-absorbed state of the past 6 weeks. And…

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May 13, 2006
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Our first stitches!

By monkeys7 Comments

So yesterday, we were getting ready to leave Charlotte to go back to Durham after a quick one-day visit (to see my dad, who is doing great, btw). I finish packing the car and head upstairs to get the girls who are playing on my parents’ treadmill. Lucy wants to show me “One More Thing” and she turns to get on the treadmill. Instead, she trips over my mom’s foot and lands face first on the base of the treadmill. Her lip is split wide open and her top front tooth has been pushed back. We get ready to go…

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May 12, 2006
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