Aug 4th, 2010 | family, Fun, life, photos | 1 Comment
We just spent a few days up at Clear Lake in northern Iowa with my family.We rented a house on the lake, just like we did in Blackduck, Minnesota two years ago, and cruised around on a pontoon while drinking beer and making pathetic attempts at catching fish (except for my dad; he caught fish). We didn’t get to town until almost midnight on Friday, as Chris had a workshop all day and we got caught in some crazy rainstorms that send many a less-fearless driver to the shoulder. Of course, we pull up, and Big Ed is waiting in the street to direct us in, despite the fact that I had received no less than three texts from my sister-in-law about Ed falling asleep in his camp chair. Midnight is really past Big Ed’s bedtime, for reals, but his love for directing parking is limitless. → continue reading
Jul 29th, 2010 | life, photos, Uncategorized | 7 Comments
Part One, if you missed it
- Begin staining process. Convince husband that he really has to do the staining himself because you would mess it up.
- Start to believe it yourself.
- Realize this process is taking four times as long as you had planned.
- Feign normalcy by inviting friend and three-year old daughter over to lunch in the basement. Reassure three-year old, upon urinating on the floor, that she wasn’t the first to pee on the floor that day.
- Resume role filling scratches and holes with wood putty because you are an equal partner in this project.
- Go ladycamping while husband stays behind to stain. Decorate your own coozie and drink vodka-spiked Capri Suns. Talk about periods.
- Realize giant pimp tent is less claustrophobic than basement, smells better.
- Return to beautiful, untouchable floors.
- Clean up basement dog pee, vomit, poop, and shredded personal items.
- Repeat #9.
- Repeat #10
- Referee countless rounds of Basement Dog Thunderdome.
- Thank Baby Jesus for awesome husband as he seals the floors.
- Agree to do all tangential helper-type activities until floors are finished.
- Do that shit with a smile.
- Relax in clean, fresh, carpet-free bedroom. Breathe.
Please to ignore our bare bedroom. We’ve only moved essentials thus far. More pics on Flickr.
Apr 13th, 2010 | Food, Fun, life, photos | 2 Comments
I spent the weekend in Minneapolis. Usually when I go there for class, I go from the airport, to class, to maybe a drink after class, to my friend’s house to sleep, back to class, to the airport. This time, however, I decided to stay an extra night as my friend, Eric, put together a pub crawl to show me a few local Twin Cities’ haunts. It was totally a blast. → continue reading
Nov 19th, 2009 | life, photos | 3 Comments
I wanted to show you some of the photos from our trip. They are all either taken by me or Chris.
Look closely. No commies served.
I like that you can see Chris in my sunglasses.
Asheville biodiesel pump. Awesome.
Unibomber-looking dude.
We stopped here to buy cider. Not sure if there is an actual Bat Cave.
If you are going to decal up your purple truck, you might as well go all out and just get Three Wolves.
Chris gets epic pit stains. Just ask his students.
We also passed Miss Havisham's house.
