I know, why would I complain about that a bill hadn’t come yet, especially one as large as my biannual property tax bill. But usually it comes in August… and due to this or that, it only just arrived. The interesting thing is that my property taxes actually went DOWN by about 13%, hardly something...Read More

One thing that is cool about owning vs. renting is that you actually get to make decisions on stuff and then make changes. We recently decided that we were going to spend a little money upgrading our master bathroom. I say master, because it is connected to the master bedroom, but there is little MASTER...Read More

As many of you know, I drive a loud audi. It is actually probably too loud, but I enjoy it, so I am not feeling too bad about it. Anyway…. last night I drove home from work, as I tend to do, and I parked in front of the house. I parallel parked it in...Read More

so the primary reason there have been so few blog posts lately is directly related to mason. While his 1st birthday was this past saturday (10/21), the party is this upcoming saturday (10/28). Since we are having 30ish people at the house for this family gathering, we have been working to get all the random...Read More

So I worked on the basement bathroom today…. and I am tired… Let me step back… when we bought this townhouse/condo whatever, there was no interior decorating at all. None. Original white walls that had 13 years of crap on them. The floors were either 13 year old cheap shitty filthy carpet or crappy 13...Read More

so lets play some catchup… mason: doing great.. talkative (but just no in english) and almost always in a good mood. he is always smiling and can be so easily entertained. As I type this he is scooting around on the floor playing with a piece of paper he pulled off an empty box. Funny...Read More

It seems we are always busy… so what is new? I’ll do it in some list method… • Mason is doing great. He is smiling lots, has begun laughing on his own, and is eating like there is no tomorrow, so I would imagine another growth spurt soon. • I got my new glasses. I...Read More

Finally… they are out of the garage… $280 picked up… so if you figure… we had 12 year old appliances, we bought some 2 year old GE white appliances, considerably nicer than ours, for $600. Then I sold the old ones for $280, net cost to upgrade was $320. Not a bad deal. Now I...Read More

I need to have more time that I focus on updating this blog… over the weekend we worked on house stuff. We touched up some walls, put up shelves, put in a the hardwood stair nose, did yard work and some gardening. Rebecca’s parents came down and helped. We got stuff done. Laundry room… cleaned...Read More

so I haven’t posted in a while, primarily because I have been busy, and I rebuilt my laptop and didn’t put the software back on it… So what has happened since thanksgiving? Hmmmm… work is going ok, selling lots of stuff on ebay. The ebay thing is getting old, but we do need to move...Read More