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Team ME’s newest member!

mike — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:59:16 +0000

As most of you probably already know, I’m a dog person. My parents always had dogs when I was growing up and I have to pet pretty much every dog I see when Eva and I are out together. She found it rather amazing that I’ve gone the last five years without finding a dog somewhere and bringing it home. But two weekends ago I got an email from my dad about an English Bulldog that needed a home. After meeting her and discussing our situation, we decided this was probably our best chance to get a dog.

Last night we went to Providence to pick her up and bring her to her new home.

Since Eva and I don’t know where our camera is yet, the only pictures we have are from my dad’s phone. But there will definitely be more pictures to come.

Progress at last

mike — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:09:05 +0000

The de-leading of our house finally started today. Of course, this means that Eva and I are living at a hotel for the next two weeks.

Best new year’s ever

mike — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:57:08 +0000

Eva and I are generally not very exciting. Our new year’s eve usually consists of watching tv, typically the pilot episode of Futurama. But this year Eva scored us tickets to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones Hometown Throwdown 11 at Lupo’s. As a bonus, one of the openers was The Agents, although Dawn wasn’t there. The one down side to the show was that we are at an awkward age where we’re too old to be there by ourselves but too young to have brought kids.

On a less happy note, the concert was followed by both of us being sick over the weekend, and me taking tuesday and wednesday as sick days from work.

Cogs of Conflict: Dos

Eva — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:47:28 +0000

As those of the FPS video persuasion know, Gears of War 2 came out last month. I, being the nice wife that I am, suggested that Mike get it, since he really liked Gears of War. I even took it off a shelf to show him the box. Mike hemmed and hawed, but in the end, did not purchase the game. After playing the game with John (a buddy of ours), he now wants to stop and pick it up every time we see a video game store. I enjoy being contrary, so it hasn’t happened yet, but one of these days, we will see whether this conflict involving cogs will ever end.

Election Day!

Eva — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:14:30 +0000

Mike and I got up early and walked to our polling place, getting there just as the location opened. After about 20 minutes in line, we voted using a black marker and a paper ballot. Then we walked back home, and I went out for donuts as Mike started getting ready for work. While I doubt my vote for national candidates (president, senator, congress-person) counts for much of anything given that this is Massachusetts, I did enjoy voting for our state senator and the ballot questions. Plus, it is going to be a gorgeous day out, so it was nice to get a bit of a walk in. Yay voting!

Pb Woes!

Eva — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:14:01 +0000

Mike and I have lead problems. It turns out that pre-primed wood can be a real problem. The paint we thought was lead? Probably not. But every wood surface of the house minus the built-in hutch and the base boards are lead. Man, if only our wood was full of peanut butter instead! Then, when children bit it (as I guess they do?), they would get a healthy treat instead of poisoned.

Anyways, if you were thinking of gnawing on the wood in our house, you may want to rethink your plans.

Corn-tastic!

Eva — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:02:06 +0000

We hit up the Davis Mega-Maze on Saturday with Sarah, Molly and Megan. It took us over 3.5 hours to get through the whole thing (although there were a couple of stops), and a great time was had by all. Well, everyone except for Molly had a great time. Sadly, for Molly, it was a day of life lessons. The first had to do with the fact that once you are a big girl, no one is going to carry you all the time. The second was that popcorn sometimes wedges itself between your gums and your teeth, and it feels weird. The third, and worst, is that splinters hurt. A lot. About 75% of the way through the maze, Molly got a splinter. We found a maze employee, who got us some tweezers and a sparkly band-aid, and then, when we couldn’t get it out without Molly screaming like “we were killing children”, she gave us directions out. You can see the band-aid on Molly’s right thumb, and the very sad expression on her face tells you how much fun she had at the end of the day.

On the positive side, things got better once we had some food and played a little bit of the wii. We made mii’s for everyone, and silly glasses and crazy eyebrows made everyone a little happier.

Poof, but like a balloon

Eva — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:45:33 +0000

I’m not sure why, but I have been kind of down the last week or so. There is exciting stuff, but I think it is stressing me out quite a bit. This stress has manifested itself in many ways: my playing jigsawdoku for 30 seconds only to pause for a minute because I don’t immediately see the answer, my inability to get a decent amount of sleep (I either get too much or too little), and my descent into Tri Delta drama. Yes, after five years of mostly avoiding the drama that was all too present during my collegiate days, I have finally swerved head-first into drama city. Sure, I’m trying to see her point of view, but it isn’t helping. It feels way more personal than the annoying calls I had to make to parents about their daughter’s finances. And I am about to burst.

Of course, the bursting sensation just tells me that I should repress the feeling until I feel more like myself (I’m a good New Englander). That way I won’t say something that I regret later. And I probably don’t want to hurt her feelings. But I feel that I am thinking the same thoughts I had about L Wang so many years ago, “I hope he has a great life, I just hope that it never crosses mine ever again.”

Well, now that I have vented a bit, the bursting sensation has subsided a bit. Thank you, kind (or non-existent) reader, you have truly helped!

Also, who thinks 2,551 word posts (as an outline) are a good idea? Seriously?

The Picture Place

Eva — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:08:01 +0000

So, I finally learned how to take pictures off Mike’s camera. I then remembered how to load them into our online galleries. So, I give you All the Pictures I Meant To Publish Before.

First, we had a ton of rain this summer, and our flowers looked pretty good thanks to that.

I had a blast at the Tri Delta Convention in July. I would highly recommend it for any Tri Delta. It also helped that a bunch of Rose girls were there, being wacky and cool and totally rocking it.

And, most recently, our Labor Day weekend rocked as we went to Paul and Anne’s wedding. It was a wonderful time, and I am so excited and happy for the two of them, I can’t help but smile. Mike was in charge of the camera for the wedding, which means that there aren’t a ton of pictures, but we still had a great time!

More on our new friend

Eva — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:24:43 +0000

So, I have very little control over my balance. I blame my inner ear or something. Anyways, that makes it difficult to play a fourth of the wii fit games, since they are all about balance. Except for one balance game. I totally rock the “sit still and don’t move” game. I made it 3 minutes without twitching, thus becoming a champion sitting-stiller!