today was an emotionally draining day. all is well though. slept at my mom’s last night, woke up to return to the city around 10. Brought a dolly back from my mom’s to help me wheel in the deep freezer i bought off craigslist yesterday. I always told kallie that we can justify more freezer […]
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Tags: ceiling, Christmas, dad, daughter, Deirdre, emotion, exhausted, father, freezer, fridge, home, home depot, house, mom, oops, phone, repair, tired
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This one will be a story, within a story…where’s Christopher Nolan when you need him? I wanted to make some martini one night, and I didn’t have any vodka. Deirdre and Jordan were out and planning on coming over later, so I asked them to swing by the state store to pick up some vodka […]
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Tags: antique, bottle, christopher nolan, country, D.C., DC, Deirdre, diplomat, drink, grandma, heirloom, history, Jordan, martini, Maryland, MD, mom, Russia, Soviet, stoli, stolichnaya, u.s.s.r., ussr memory, vodka, washington
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We all grow up, but some of us never leave home. Some of us will always remain close to where we grew up. It’s not a bad thing either way, sometimes it’s born out of necessity. I know a lot of people who moved so far away from home, but they ended up moving back.
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Tags: adventure, city, close, dad, family, holidays, home, independence, life, mom, parents, together, travel, visit
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WTF is up with trash bag sizing? Why can’t we have standards here? My whole life, I’ve struggled with the trash bag being too small and falling into the can, and then all the grossness builds up as it falls between the bag and wall and to the bottom of the can. Either that, or […]
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Tags: bags, cans, fit, garbage, gross, mom, rant, size, trash bags, wtf
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here’s another memory of when I almost died, or at least, almost caused severe bodily damage to myself. Twice. I was changing the tires on my 92 ford taurus at my mom’s house one day. I had it jacked up, and the wheel was off. I was sitting down, with my legs out in front […]
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Tags: accident, car, dodge ram, flat, house, how to change a tire, jack, mom, taurus, tire, truck
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When I first brought my LEGO collection from my mom’s house to my house, I created a large scale LEGO man. It was a little smaller, didn’t have moving arms, it had a baseball hat, and it had a double pocket torso, but it was very similar to this one. I had a few difficulties finding enough […]
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Tags: blue, brick, bricks, creation, house, LEGO, Man, mom, statue
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