20 November 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Two dogs = excellent birth control.

We are dog-sitting Charlie while Ben and Abbie are on their honeymoon.
(Charlie being the aforementioned gigantic yellow lab. He’s, like, a hundred pounds, no kidding. His head is approximately the size of my ass, which everyone knows is quite large and juicy. He poops about a quart of poop, twice a day. It’s insane.)
At first, [...]

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18 November 2008 ~ 9 Comments

It's a parable. Y'know, because their ceremony needed some Jesus.

Several months ago, Ben and Abbie had their first “for better or for worse” moment: they decided to run a marathon together.
They started out strong, running together six days a week along the lake shore, past their new condo and the grassy spot where they got engaged, nothing between them but the Chicago summer sunshine [...]

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18 September 2008 ~ 9 Comments

The juice is loose

I made the mistake today of going out into the real world wearing yoga clothes.
Being that I work from home, I tend to forget that the vast majority of the population does not live their lives wearing Lycra pants and a hoodie. After all, I only emerge from my house to go across the street [...]

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11 September 2008 ~ 7 Comments

Back on the scale

That’s it. Molly and I are on a diet.
Back in Nashville, when a friend started calling Molly a hippo, I didn’t think anything of it. When we went on our honeymoon and the dog sitter reported to us that she had started feeding Molly a scant cup of dog food — rather than a heaping [...]

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13 August 2008 ~ 2 Comments

I am a rock; I am an island.

But wait, there’s more! You didn’t think I would leave out all the intimate details of our honeymoon, did you?
It was inexplicably wonderful to vacation in Maui with a big group of family and friends — we pretty much took over the resort! We couldn’t walk from one end to the other without running into [...]

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