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Day 44: If You Can't Stand The Heat...
By egelliaSo I wrote before about this window in the kitchen. How Johnny changed the sash already but it keeps slipping off the pulley. How we spent 45 sweaty minutes together trying to make it right, but four times it slipped off again until finally we said “Screw it, we don’t need no open window in the kitchen anyhow.”
Well, it’s almost August, and it turns out we do.
I’ve decided over the intervening months that the problem is Johnny used » READ MORE
Well, it’s almost August, and it turns out we do.
I’ve decided over the intervening months that the problem is Johnny used » READ MORE
Day 43: Window Mistreatment
By egelliaI actually didn’t feel like doing anything today, because I’m sunburned and I’m tired and it’s a grand, soft day outside, and it just feels like a good day to crawl back in bed with the newspapers I never got around to reading yesterday…
But I didn’t do anything yesterday, and I didn’t really do anything on Saturday, and I didn’t do anything on Friday either, and – yeesh, now that I’m looking I really haven’t done anything much » READ MORE
But I didn’t do anything yesterday, and I didn’t really do anything on Saturday, and I didn’t do anything on Friday either, and – yeesh, now that I’m looking I really haven’t done anything much » READ MORE
Day 42: With Apologies To The Unicorns
By egelliaa long time ago like yesterday
and there was more things going Wrong than you could ever say
i was running around getting f.ed at every turn
and the worstiest of all was the ace of furn
there was meanKeyspanpeople and Comcastfreaks
there was humper bumper traffic and toilet leaks
there was trainsanddrainsandhusbandfights but sure as you’re born
the worstiest of all was the ace of furn
the furnace guy promised he would come and see
he » READ MORE
and there was more things going Wrong than you could ever say
i was running around getting f.ed at every turn
and the worstiest of all was the ace of furn
there was meanKeyspanpeople and Comcastfreaks
there was humper bumper traffic and toilet leaks
there was trainsanddrainsandhusbandfights but sure as you’re born
the worstiest of all was the ace of furn
the furnace guy promised he would come and see
he » READ MORE
Day 41: Dealing With A Staunch Character.
By egelliaJohnny said that after work he’d show me how to j.c. the closet proper. Set me up and teach me how. Because as much as he’s pretending it’s okay, it’s just a closet, it’s driving him mad the mess I made in there—
Oh, all right, I’ll show you a picture. Here:
Oh, what the hell, have three:
But you better appreciate it, because it’s too light in there for flash and too dark without it, so I had to find Johnny’s work light in the » READ MORE
Oh, all right, I’ll show you a picture. Here:
Oh, what the hell, have three:
But you better appreciate it, because it’s too light in there for flash and too dark without it, so I had to find Johnny’s work light in the » READ MORENo Big Love On THIS Compound
By egelliaI asked Johnny to sum up the how-tos for me again this morning, because he was not exactly crystal-clear on the finer points of the procedure yesterday. So he did.
It goes pretty much like he said yesterday: slathe it, press the tape, cut the tape, slathe it again (but, like everything else about homeownership, you really can’t know what that means until you’ve done it). And then, before he hopped out of the car he gave me one last » READ MORE
It goes pretty much like he said yesterday: slathe it, press the tape, cut the tape, slathe it again (but, like everything else about homeownership, you really can’t know what that means until you’ve done it). And then, before he hopped out of the car he gave me one last » READ MORE
Day 39: That's Enough Of That
By egelliaOy yoy yoy. If you live with somebody you love, don’t smoke, okay? Or, actually, go ahead and smoke all you want, just make sure you always have a spare carton in the freezer.
Because I don’t really care about the cancer or the smell or any of the rest of it – that’s all your body and your stink and I’d just as soon keep my laws off the whole shebang. But sheesh, a smoker without smokes is a pain in the toosh – and now that’s my » READ MORE
Because I don’t really care about the cancer or the smell or any of the rest of it – that’s all your body and your stink and I’d just as soon keep my laws off the whole shebang. But sheesh, a smoker without smokes is a pain in the toosh – and now that’s my » READ MORE
Day 38: I Think We're A-Gonna Hafta Paint 'Er
By egelliaNumber one and first of all: I was right. And we all know that is the most important thing.
Darker don’t do diddly.
I bought the darkest Minwax stain I could find in the wee-sized pot. “Dark Walnut.” They didn’t have a sample of it, and you know you can never trust those pictures on the can, but what the hell. I figured I was giving this one final shot – one final half-assed shot, I should say – and then it would be latex time.
(For a » READ MORE
Darker don’t do diddly.
I bought the darkest Minwax stain I could find in the wee-sized pot. “Dark Walnut.” They didn’t have a sample of it, and you know you can never trust those pictures on the can, but what the hell. I figured I was giving this one final shot – one final half-assed shot, I should say – and then it would be latex time.
(For a » READ MORE
Day 37: Plugging Away
By egelliaEvery day this week I’ve been meaning to get started on the closet. But every day this week I've forgotten to ask Johnny before he left for work what “getting started on the closet” might entail. And by the time he would get home, I’d have found something else to do that day – so then why bother asking?
Finally, this morning, I remembered. He wasn’t all the way awake yet, but I remembered to ask him and then it was his job to » READ MORE
Finally, this morning, I remembered. He wasn’t all the way awake yet, but I remembered to ask him and then it was his job to » READ MORE
Day 36: Personality Screening
By egelliaSo I didn’t sleep last night, because of the PAP PAP PAP (heard it again this morning from somewhere up inside the skylight; nearly knocked me off the stairmaster).
Between the actual noise and the subsequent fits of wonder, the only hour of rest I got was one after which I was supposed to be awake. The first thing I did was cancel plans for tonight that I’d confirmed a month ago (I’ll see you before you go, Steph, I promise). The » READ MORE
Between the actual noise and the subsequent fits of wonder, the only hour of rest I got was one after which I was supposed to be awake. The first thing I did was cancel plans for tonight that I’d confirmed a month ago (I’ll see you before you go, Steph, I promise). The » READ MORE
Day 35: Goody-nough
By egelliaOoh, here’s a new development…
So Johnny’s been telling me for quite some time now that “this guy up at the pub who’s name I can’t remember but he’s a lawyer, honey” says we should file some homestead something or other on our house, and in fact this guy will do it for us if only we bring him our tax returns and the deed to our house.
Well, gosh. Here you go, honey. Let me know how it turns out.
NOT!
I swear to god, I love him. But » READ MORE
So Johnny’s been telling me for quite some time now that “this guy up at the pub who’s name I can’t remember but he’s a lawyer, honey” says we should file some homestead something or other on our house, and in fact this guy will do it for us if only we bring him our tax returns and the deed to our house.
Well, gosh. Here you go, honey. Let me know how it turns out.
NOT!
I swear to god, I love him. But » READ MORE
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