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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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Moving on (or the continuing adventures of life in the money pit)
So now that I feel I can (semi) safely say that we are done with the front house remodel, it’s time to turn our attentions to (drum roll, please!) OUR house! Yes, our humble abode is now on the cutting board (so to speak) and we are gearing up for a slow, very gradual remodel
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Just when we thought the remodel was done, it wasn’t!
So we were feeling pretty cocky, pretty woohoo-we-are-done-with-this-house-remodel-deal! And then the closet bars fell down and we realized that we had forgotten to check on the status of the closets (there are only two in the house). Once we looked, it was a pretty sad state of affairs. Each had a crummy single bar running
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