two fell swoops

I’ve been feeling particularly disgruntled in my cubicle this Monday, thus, would like to share a great local sign we snagged on one of our patina scouting adventures.

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So, our garage sale on Saturday wasn’t as good as we hoped. While we did end up offloading some stuff, and making a bit of money to offset wedding expense, Tim accidentally sold something that he’s going to regret for a long time. It was this thing called a “Walkboard,” which is difficult […]

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we’re having a garage sale this weekend to make space in our storage garage, and to raise some money to for our wedding. stop by and sit for a while, or browse and buy something.
lots of weird stuff to sell! come and get it!
here’s the craigslist post: http://annarbor.craigslist.org/gms/1204216383.html
map: http://bit.ly/jb9WO

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It was going to be our first dinner in our newly renovated kitchen.  In the days leading up, I pushed to make a big deal out of it and suggested a nice romantic dinner. That day, I spent most of the time finishing renovations and cleaning up and making sure everything was in place.
On the […]

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Happily, the people who renovated our house before us carried on the tradition of stuffing current newspapers into walls they closed up.  I thought I’d share this clipping from the October 25, 1967 edition of the Ann Arbor News, in which Secretary of State Dean Rusk compares antiwar protesters to Nazi appeasers.  Timeless.

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A year ago right now (during our Alkalai School project, I should mention) Andrea and I were lying on the side of the highway leading to Mt. Rushmore, where all the locals who don’t want to pay admission fees go to watch the fireworks display. Radios blared the standard fireworks “Proud-To-Be-An-American” mix and cars […]

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I was still a little hungry after we came home from dinner tonight, so I went to the kitchen and fixed myself a little bread with peanut butter. Andrea followed me in there and started inspecting the contents of the containers of leftovers in the fridge until she settled on a bowl of cantaloupe. […]

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Tim will soon write a post about our Valentine’s Day at White Castle. He will also probably take down this picture. But until then: UPDATE (by Tim): Yes, I’m weird about having pictures of my face on the  blog, so I took down the picture.  It’s still up at the White Castle Valentine’s […]

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Last weekend, Andrea and I went shopping around for refrigerators. I say “shopping around” because at this early stage in our potential refrigerator consumption, we went to a big appliance mart intending more to see what was available than to actually purchase anything.
The young man who guided us around the showroom kept suggesting large […]

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Yesterday on my way home from work I drove past this:

In a busy Midwestern college town, this has to happen to everyone at least once.  The poor guy was clearing snow away from his car using only his hands. I felt kind of bad about taking the picture, and then I remembered that I’d thrown […]

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