Our new home

Here it is! After long last, I found us a place to live out east. And a house, at that! No, we’re not buying…DC is WAY too expensive for that, even with the housing market the way it is.
Our new place is on the Wheaton/Silver Spring border in Maryland, just north of DC. We’re about [...]

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The wedding shower

Last Saturday, my maid of honor Beth, my matron of honor Monica, and Ryan’s mom Lettie and sister Katie threw us a fantastic wedding shower. It was held at Pal Joey’s in West Chicago, which has my favorite pizza and was a cool space to have a shower in.
Katie and Lettie were up most of [...]

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House hunting

It’s been a crazy week full of house/apartment hunting. It’s been interesting…today I saw one nice house, one slightly nicer house, one great house, and one house that I can’t even believe the landlord was showing. There was junk all over, it was badly painted, and it smelled BAD. Dissecting the ads on Craigslist has [...]

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Jinxed

I knew I shouldn’t have said it, but it was true. After Ryan’s visit in the middle of last week when his flight to Baltimore was late and his flight back to Chicago was canceled, I commented to one or two people that it was odd that he had so many problems on his one [...]

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