Tag: The Estate
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Life Changing Accessories
So I’m the one who cleans the shower at our house. It’s an arrangement borne out of a) The Lovely Rhonda’s bleach allergy, b) the excessive mildewy-ness of our particular shower which necessitates the use of bleach, and c) the fact that TLR is willing to take care of the bill-paying. That last point alone…
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Why I Cannot Clean The House Except Under Tremendous Pressure
So it’s Thanksgiving next week, and as always we are booked solid until Thursday morning. The Lovely Rhonda is working her four-day stretch, ending on Tuesday, so she’ll be relatively useless on Wednesday. I say that completely without rancor because her workdays are twelve hours long and sandwiched between forty minutes’ drive each way. We…
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A Day Off
So today I awoke to some issues that you don’t want to hear about, and after a few attempts it became clear that I was not actually going to succeed in leaving the house. So I laid around trying to not feel too wretched. This is not as easy as it sounds, sometimes. Eventually I…
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It’s curtains for us.
So about three years ago The Lovely Rhonda and I moved into this house. I like to call it The Swamp because that makes me feel all Shrek-y, and who doesn’t like Shrek? If I were green and my ears stuck out a bit I might be rather Fiona-esque. Well, I guess I’d have to…
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The Afterparty
So ten children ages 7 (x 1), 6 (x 2), 5 (x 5), 4 (x 1) and 3 (x 1) makes for an interesting afternoon. There were games! There was laughter! There were owies and/or boo-boos! Tears! Mayhem! Cuppycakes! Delirium! Chaos! Dora the Explorer party favors! And eventually, an absence of children, and peace, and…
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On Lawn Care
So I got my Ugly Velcro Boottm off last week, and thus today was able to mow the front lawn of The Estate. This went very quickly since The Lovely Rhonda and our good friend Josh mowed last weekend; it was the first mow of the season and the grass was still a bit damp…
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Spring, and cleaning. Sort of.
So I have this stupid broken foot which necessitates the use of a big Velcro boot. So attractive, and the very pinnacle of comfort. I’m at loose ends today in that The Lovely Rhonda is at work and the children are all off at their other homes. There’s been a lot going on lately that…
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Echo echo echo
We’re having people over on Thursday to begin Exciting Kitchen Makeover 2012! Two of them are named Deb, two of them are named Kathy, and all of them are lesbians. This brings us up to three Debs, two Kathys, and a Rhonda. Oh, and Josh who is a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. What…
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