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Life, the Universe and Everything

Today’s cautionary tale brought to you by the letter F, for furnace. And failure. And f*ck.

3 December 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

So here’s my nickel’s worth of free advice for you. When your 19 year old (but only two months old to you) furnace starts making odd squeaky noises when it starts up, you should not ignore it. You may wish to ignore it, especially if you are in the midst of a newly identified mould [...]

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Lucas’s most excellent day

17 November 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

A day that starts with fire trucks in the driveway is a pretty exciting day for a toddler. When you get to the part of the day that has a boy-sized carton filled with packing peanuts? You’ve hit Nirvana. Such is the day Lucas is having today. It started innocuously, and early. It was just [...]

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Hooked

19 October 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

There are a lot (no really? A LOT!) of things I love about the new house. I love the layout, and the location. And the light — oh my sweet lord, the morning light pouring in to the kitchen and then the setting sun bathing the whole front of the house in a rich, warm, [...]

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iPhone house tour and virtual housewarming party!

13 October 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

It was two months ago today that I saw a real estate listing on the ‘net that would change our lives forever. Two months later, I find myself the owner of that house, with a tiny bit of time on my hands waiting for the delivery of our new fridge, washer and dryer. And with [...]

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Welcome home

7 October 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

Guess what we got today? A new house!!

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Five things I couldn’t throw away

6 October 2010 5 things

As I’m packing, I keep having these great ideas for blog posts that will never get written, because they’ll either be no longer relevant or (more likely) completely forgotten by the time my life slows down enough to allow for regular blogging again. Some ideas that will likely never see the light of day: Five [...]

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Moving experiences

4 October 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

We’re in the home stretch on the big move now. We take possession of the new house in Manotick on Thursday, and we move the week after that. We’ve got the basement and the garage mostly packed up, and boxes piled in every corner of the house. I think we’re on track, but still vaguely [...]

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In which the Universe demonstrates a sense of humour

17 September 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

It went something like this: *ring ring* Hello? Hey, Universe, it’s DaniGirl calling. Oh hey, DaniGirl! Whattup? Oh, you know, the usual. Crazy week here, even crazier than our normal kind of crazy. Yeah, I hear ya. I’ve been a little busy myself. Yeah, that’s kind of why I called. I wanted to talk to [...]

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Will Survivor hold the key to selling our house?

15 September 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

I have mentioned before how Survivor seems to be tied inextricably up in my childbearing years. From the summer of my first pregnancy (that ended in miscarriage) during the debut season in 2000, to watching the first episode of the first Survivor All Stars season in 2004 from my hospital bed after Simon’s birth, to [...]

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Fear of framing

6 September 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

So here’s a quirky little peccadillo I’ve never told you about. You know I like to take pictures, right? I’ve got tonnes of pictures of the boys, of landscapes, of still lifes, of people and stuff and abstracts, you name it and I’ve photographed it, and some of them are actually pretty good if I [...]

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