6.4.09

Fit

My wife and i are a perfect fit. She compliments me and I her. She helps me remember everything, I help her remember how awesome she is.
She has great spiritual insights. I am grateful for her new resolve to spiritually redecorate our house. I love her.
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Our latest project . . .


a deck of floating face cards. They have been produced and should be here soon. I know, David is well on his infomercial way. That is one of the reasons I love him!


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15.3.09

My New Secretary

Dave, Kathryn, and I went to the DI on Friday. It turns out that the Sugar House DI is far superior to the one we have in Logan: more items, cheaper prices and cooler things. Kathy spotted an amazing secretary (which she wanted, but had no room for, but I still feel bad) and I jumped on it. It was a little harder to talk Dave into purchasing it (he had a good case, I have a very hard time finishing projects...).

Sadly for Him, every old, sassy, (and occasionally sweet) woman in the building swarmed around him to put pressure on him to let me buy it. Comments such as, "That thing is $15 and you won't let her buy it?!" to "Oh, that is amazing! It will be an heirloom for sure," were all directed to my poor husband. Even the DI guy started writing the sold slip before Dave even agreed. When David finally conceded, (as if they would have let him say "no") a round of applause burst from the basement of the Sugar House DI.

It was beautiful, and so is the secretary.





The back is come kind of horrible lumber. I think I will have to replace that, just so it is perfect.

Here it is in its open state. (Notice the pencil holder on the bottom right? I love the small details.)

A detail shot of the carving.

The handles are all beautiful as well.


And here it is closed.









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26.2.09

My New Favorite Hobby


See it on my blog, here
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17.2.09

this post will probably mean nothing to you


I have a question about my jade plant and needed to link to an image. (So people on a gardening site could reference this photo in regards to my question. So you can just ignore this or rejoice in the fact that I have a new plant.)


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12.2.09

New Pepsi Look: Two Thumbs Down

This is what I think: 

But I think this is WAY better:
I don't know which one is worse, Pepsi's rebranding or Tropicana's (whose cheaper looking, sterile, non-juicy, no straw-in-in-orange, awkwardly spaced redo makes me think I'm purchasing GoodValue and not a pricey orange juice).
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16.1.09

Uganda Details: Everything must have a beginning

Alright, I was too excited to think through my post. Some details:

1. We are going as part of the Engineers Without Borders program.
a. This means we are going to help people get access to a clean water supply (Dave's engineering degree comes i
n handy here). 
b. And help train them to be good workers (Dave's MBA comes in handy here).
c. And hopefully have an awesome dance party.

2. We are going sometime in July.
a. Dave is the team leader and he doesn't even know when in July we are going.
b. But we are going for a month . . .
c. or maybe longer? 

3. Some other exciting things
a. We might have a layover in Dubai 
i. where we kind of want to live someday
b. We are taking a week to get there so we can see some of Uganda
ii. Including, but not limited to
a. White-water rafting
b. Waterfall gazing
c. Looking for crocodiles in rivers
c. Scott pointing us to one of his clients blogs: aeglenn.blogspot.com
ii. We loved this post 
"Children at an orphanage in Entebbe, Uganda. There are so many children here it is incredible; there are orphans everywhere. The people take them in and it is not unusual to see families struggling with 8-10 children. We talked to a woman yesterday who has taken in twelve children. She said, 'Sometimes I feel sad that I cannot do more, but everything must have a beginning'. We have decided to use that as our personal reminder to guide our actions here as we try to help."


4. We'll keep you all updated.
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15.1.09

Uganda

We are going for over three weeks! This is probably a shock to everyone, because it is a shock to both of us! We were simply discussing it on Tuesday, and today we are going!



This makes me smile:




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