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Baxter passed out!
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Life as We Know It

Sometimes it’s hard to write about normal life here because truth be told, normal life is kind of boring. We don’t have any kids, I can’t talk too much about work because of confidentiality reasons and our dogs, while absolutely adorable to us, probably aren’t that interesting to you. I mean, for the most part, we try to get out of the house occasionally but it’s usually out to dinner with some friends or to a show downtown, but a lot of times, we spend entire weekends at home because we are, by nature, homebodies – me more than Steve because he’s usually the first one to say, “Let’s do something, we NEED to get out of this house”.

It’s particularly boring when pestilence settles over the house, which is what happened last week.

It started the Saturday before last when Steve mentioned that he thought he was getting sick, which meant he was already sick because Steve usually doesn’t indicate that anythings wrong with him. Cut to that Sunday night when he’s up and down out of bed and I can hear him wheezing as he’s sitting on the edge and he explains that he can barely sleep because every time he lays down, it feels like someone is sitting on his chest. Of course, when he stayed home the next day, I insisted he go to the doctor because the wheezing was bad, he has asthma and we had no inhaler in the house.

He turned out to have bronchitis and a sinus infection and probably an ear infection. And he was out of work for two days.

Which means I prepped myself to get sick.

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Wayback Wednesday - Dress part Two
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Way Back Wednesday: A Dress

This dress is proof positive that even this young, I knew what I liked and stuck with it. These two pictures were taken the same summer – the first was at the Fourth of July festival in my grandparents town and the latter was at my brother and dad’s birthday, which is on the same day in August. This was probably 1990ish, so I was maybe nine years old.

Notice the dress – same in both pictures. Nothing wrong with that, because it’s cute. Hell, I wish I could get away with wearing something like that now, especially in the summer time. I remember LOVING that dress! It was super comfortable! Also note the headband, in both pictures, on different days.

I am nothing if not consistent!

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Valentine's History of Us
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For My Valentine

Sometimes my brain has a hard time wrapping itself around the idea that we’ve been together almost half of my life. There are moments where it feels like just yesterday that we had our first date, sitting in the mall parking lot in your Bronco drinking beer and just talking while waiting to go in to see a movie. But most of the time, I feel the gravity of those twelve years, the comfort in knowing who you are and who I am and who we are together as one. It is a wonderful feeling, that comfort, because there is a sense of peace and safety in that for me. You have such a way of making me feel safe and secure in myself, in us, in my place in the world. There is nothing greater to me than knowing that I will come home to you every evening and wake up to you every morning. In knowing that the moments of silence are ok and just as special as the loud and boisterous ones. Some of the greatest moments of my life have been spent in your presence alone, enjoying a long road trip or navigating you through the rocky trails of the Poconos or enjoying a day long concert or drag racing where we are over excited, overwhelmed and just generally hyped up over how much fun we are having.

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February Birchbox
Life, Things I Buy

Birchbox – First Quarter

Back in October, after seeing posts about it all over blogs and the Internets, I decided to go ahead and join Birchbox. There were quite a few reasons to justify it but mostly it was that I like beauty things and for $10 bucks a month, it seemed a worthy little pick me up to have some samples of higher end beauty products that I would probably never buy show up at my door.

It’s been three months and that pretty little box has appeared in my mailbox like clockwork. To date, I’m satisfied with the program. With my initial box I was a bit skeptical but I went in and tweaked my profile a bit and have been nothing but happy with the last two boxes.

I haven’t found anything worth purchasing as a full size yet but I have found things that I love and use regularly. I’m just still not okay with spending $125 on moisturizer. My philosophy is that I’ll enjoy it for a month and then something else will come in my next box that I can enjoy just as much.

In the spirit of a good review, I figured I’d post up the contents of each box for the past three months and offer my opinions about them.

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Wayback Wednesday - the Perm
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Way Back Wednesday: The Perm

1992 – eleven or close to twelve years old. I am the one on the far left, in case you can’t recognize me under that atrocious perm and behind those windshields that someone called glasses. My mom used to get perms all of the time and they looked nice on her – and let’s face, it was the style back then. I thought I wanted a perm because my stick straight hair did nothing and I like the idea of curls. So mom relented and let me have one. Now I live with these cringeworthy pictures. And the glasses – my vision has always been horribly bad so the lenses needed to be large so they wouldn’t be so thick. Thankfully it wouldn’t be to long after this shot that I got contacts.

Please note the black stretch pants – they started this early and continued well into my middle school years and apparently into my high school years, just in different variations. However, also note that my shoes and socks all match my bitchin’ Carolina Tarhells hoodie. While I wouldn’t rock that outfit now, it was kind of the shit back in the day.

Psst – the other people in this photo are, from right to left, my dad, my younger brother and my stepmother at the time (her and my dad have since divorced). Also a waterbed, because waterbeds were the rage back in the day. And love how my dad’s shirt matches the bedspread, which is satin, might I point out!