Month: March 2008
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Let the Celebrating Begin!
This was the beginning of the wedding celebrations. Friday night was the aufraf– a Jewish celebration of our marriage before the marriage– kind of a dry run, if you will– it was at our synagogue– there was much eating and drinking and singing and even a little dancing (which S did not prepare me for,…
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The couch has arrived! And it’s very comfortable.
I spent some time today waiting for the couch to arrive from Crate and Barrel. It arrived 15 minutes before the window of time they gave me, they put it in fast and efficiently, and amazingly enough it fit PERFECTLY in the spot associated for it– even better than we had expected. I’ve attached some…
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In which I try to discover the value in being a layabout.
So… with our impending nuptials a mere 19 days away (yikes, oh my god, time to panic!) we are working like mad to get the house ready. Ready for what you might ask? We’ve been living here 2 years, we’ve had guests over multiple times, we’ve had parties here, etc. We live here. It’s a…
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Batting clean up….
We spent much of the day cleaning up the house. We got a lot of work done, but have much yet to do. It was hard, un-thanking work, yet we did it. Stephanie was very much a trooper– I like to complain about everything, but she put in quite a bit of work and didn’t…
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9 months
For nine months Adam is changing the cat litter. He must really love me. And really want this baby. Who knew?
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NY Times Article on downtown Yonkers
Apparently we are officially known as urban pioneers (although we bought a house on the outskirts of the area talked about– we’re probably less than a quarter mile from the apartments they are talking about, and the view in this picture) NY TIMES ARTICLE: Living In | The Yonkers Waterfront District:It Had the Setting; Now…
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In which the glass finally arrives… and is not quite full.
We’ve been waiting for our new shower door for a long time. First we had to figure out if we wanted the frameless glass doors (well, we knew we wanted them, but could we afford it?) We had talked about glass block, about all other kinds of stuff. We finally decided that we did want…