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October 8, 2006 | Filed under: loves

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Today was Miss Maisie’s last day on Earth. She was a terrific friend who would never think to ask for anything from you but the other half of your sandwich. She loved noogies and red licorice. She was warm and soft and always there for me.

I miss her terribly already and it hasn’t even been a whole day.

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: hello, nurse!, loves, misadventures

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Sometimes you have to know when to call in the professionals. This is one of those times.

(I do realize that I am, in fact, a professional myself. It doesn’t mean that I get taken seriously or that my health advice ever gets followed. Hey nurses: feel free to add to the public shaming but don’t be too hard on him…oh, nevermind. Be as harsh as you want!)

Aside: this is the first video shot entirely on my new cell phone. It actually looks better than I expected, but it sounds like hell.

[prozac]

September 23, 2006 | Filed under: loves

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The Bad news: Miss Maisie’s cancer is back and she’s starting to fade.

The Good news: we’re working hard to make sure her last weeks involve plenty of outside time, extra cuddling and roast beef heros.

We drove Maisie up to the Rockefeller State Park the other day and had some nice quiet time in the woods. She’s such a city dog, she didn’t quite have any idea what to do with herself off-leash. I think she had a nice time. All three of us needed a break from the stress we’ve been under (house flip-flopping, fatal illness, job loathing, impending-birthday-aging-dread). The park was lovely and huge and empty.

On a technical note, I have no idea why the quality of this video stinks so badly. Same camera, same compression settings, I’m baffled. I’m working on it. It bugs me.

August 29, 2006 | Filed under: loves, misadventures

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I never was a pot-girl. I always preferred booze. Still do. Cocktails have cool names and come in pretty colors and sometimes have little paper umbrellas in them! Ever see a paper umbrella sticking out of a spliff? I doubt it. I’ve never smoked tobacco, either, so back in the day (aka “College: The Early Years”) it just made logical sense to smoke nothing at all, so I never picked it up. I have always considered myself lucky to have a non-addictive personality.

Some aren’t so lucky.

sidenote: looking back at this footage (taken in a hotel room last week in Hudson, NY on our Great American House Search From Hell) I’m amazed that I had no reaction to My fiancee’s decision to reach into the toilet and splash around. No squealing, no “eeeeeeeeeewww!!!”, no nothing. Should I be concerned that I am so accepting of his personality quirks that his reaching into a hotel toilet seems to be such a typical Brian manoeuvre that I don’t give it a second thought? Is that gross, or is that love?

August 25, 2006 | Filed under: country mouse, loves, misadventures

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If owning a home is the American Dream then looking for a home must surely be the American Nightmare. Great house? Bad street. Bad house? Great land! Nice yard but no porch. Big lot but no fence. Good house, good land, but no town. We’ve seen all manner of house/land/town combinations and we’ve only been at this for two weeks. We’re exhausted and drained, our heads hurt and we squabble constantly. He wants acres and I want to be able to walk to get a cup of coffee and a newspaper. We still have a lot to figure out.That lovely parcel of land you see in that photo was nestled by a small creek in Catskill, NY. The drawback? The house was a total re-do, and not just the insanely painted rooms and scuzzy 70’s carpet, either! Both the bathroom and kitchen would need to be completely replaced, the second floor wasn’t heated properly, the pink insulation had been installed upside-down and there was a half-assed joist in the basement that may or may not have been holding up the whole house. To top it all off Brian noticed a man surveying the creek as our realtor gave us the grand tour. Apparantly he was gathering information for the condos that were being built there. So much for that. The other House of Horrors featured in the video had more skylights than you could possibly want–it was almost as if the whole roof was transparent. In August? Oppressively hot. It was like being in a big glass pizza oven with bad carpeting.

There was one house in Hudson that was very nearly perfect and I fell madly in love with it even though I did not fall madly in love with Hudson: a cute little colonial with perfect wide-slat wood floors, vintage light fixtures, a nice back yard and a barn.

Of course it’s on a truck route.

“busted frog”
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