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Thoughts on my new age group
A week from today (Oct 13) is my birthday. Normally, I’d let that pretty much slide blog-wise but I’ve been inspired by our good friend Meagan (my personal favorite author of quarter-century-crisis roman a clefs) who has been blogging about turning 30. So I thought I’d blog about turning 55, which age I will turn
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Blood sweat and tears (well, not so much the blood and tears but LOTS of sweat)
Our bathroom remodel project is trudging along – we have been sidetracked by so much work and travel that we are not moving nearly as quickly as we had originally planned. Progress has been made: the plumbing is all installed and the cutout for the soap and shampoo is done. Over the past week or
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Evil text charges: a cautionary tale
I just got off the phone with our wireless provider (AT&T) over a very interesting issue. Being the Apple fangirl that I am I was pretty excited about the iPhone 5 announcement and decided to take a look at our account and see what our eligibility dates were. As it turns out, Chuck qualifies for
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Taking a breather
I had a business meeting in Seattle last week, so Chuck and I decided to make a mini vacation out of it by heading to the San Juan Islands for a few days. Seattle felt like the start of the vacation as the weather was fabulous. After a few weeks of sweltering summer weather in
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Tri Season Once Again
We got up at 4 AM – yes 4 AM! – to head out to Hansen Dam for Eileen’s first triathlon this year. I was a bit concerned about her bike training but I guess all those weeks in spin class paid off even if she has not gotten much time on the road. This
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Chez O’Shea is currently closed for renovation
And so it begins. The long-planned redo of our bathrooms has begun. Over the past two weeks we have been slowly demolishing the spare bathroom (actually, it went pretty quickly, we just kept getting interrupted by, you know, work and life and stuff like that). The cabinet and sink went quietly. The bathtub tile put
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