29 September 2010 ~ 7 Comments

When babies fly

Turns out, Wyoming does agree with me. It was the best trip of our life. Better, even, than our honeymoon, we decided.
That may have had at least something to do with the fact that we know with certainty that our days of relaxing vacations and time for just the two of us are numbered. In [...]

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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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