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Silence on the western front, y’all. Talk to me. Too much construction talk around here to be of any interest to you?

Also, I have reason to believe that the good folks who used to own our house are now following our renovations on the blog! How cool if that’s for real! So drop me a line, cause I’d love to chat the house with you.

Over and out.

Wow, it’s been days, hasn’t it? Well the Dell guy came yesterday to fix my computer so I can now fill you in on all the boring minutia of two lives ensconced in a kitchen renovation with moving day quickly approaching.

About half a year ago, Berlin knocked my laptop off the coffee table while it was plugged into the outlet. This did no damage to the computer except for bending the cord connection making it difficult to charge the battery. For about six months, we had to have the power cord plugged in just right, or we’d run out of juice. As you can imagine, this got old pretty quickly, and on Sunday all of our efforts failed and the computer battery died without us being able to recharge it.

The next part of the story involves my fourty minute phone conversation with the Dell support technician in New Delhi. Yes. It went about as smoothly as you can imagine. Someone has taught these usually nice Indian folks how to upsell… and HARD. He wouldn’t let me schedule the computer repair until he had gone through all of the many ways for me to upgrade my warranty… which I didn’t buy.

And then Jack showed up yesterday, Jack the funny and quirky Dell technician, and an hour later he had swapped out my motherboard for free. I am now sold on the powers of warranties.

To be honest, I rather enjoyed the few days where I was incommunicado to the world. But I know you’re waiting with baited breath to see pictures of the house, so I’ll switch out my camera lens, head over there, and snap some just for you. Besides, I have to get the dog out of the apartment for the repairman who is coming by to fix our garbage disposal which ate a shot glass yesterday. Yes, a shot glass. I am reveling in the fact that my landlord has to fix this one instead of me. Those days are numbered.

We’ve had a day and a half of rain down here, and while I think rain is supposed to make your allergies better (washing away the pollen?) it always does the opposite for me. My allergies are such that I should probably go in for shots, although you know that’s not going to happen. Instead, I’ve spent much of my life switching between Claritin D and Zyrtec D, constantly hopped up.

I went off Zyrtec a few months ago when we had started talking about getting preggers. My doctor was super crunchy and encouraged me to try to live without it, and I have honestly done pretty well. On occasion I have major sinus pressure and headaches, and on days like this, post-nasal drip. YUM! But I can generally pop a Benedryl or Sudafed and fight off the side effects with coffee.

Well, I’m all out of coffee filters. Plum out.

So do I get in the car and drive to the store to buy new coffee filters after taking two Benedryl?

Or do I go over there and snooze until the dryer beeps me awake? I’m leaning towards the latter.

We are back from another great weekend away. What a shock it was to go from eating some of the world’s greatest cooking back to an empty kitchen where I pulled out a can of soup for dinner. It’s almost like the food depression you fall into after returning from a cruise.

The look I got from Matt when we de-boarded the plane in Nashville was so classic. It felt so funnily great to be back home, and the fact that it feels so much like home after only three months is astonishing. No traveling planned until the holidays, and that is a welcome relief. We’ve done our fair share this summer, and we’re eager to spend each weekend drywalling instead of jet-lagging.

I’m working on a new project and am finding it so hard to sit down and crank out my work today. Doesn’t help that I’m home with my puppy again, the new CB2 catalog arrived, and that my brother-in-law introduced me to Lala.com. It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if I started a load of laundry and then headed to Lowes to pick out some paint swatches, would it?

More creative posting to resume tomorrow, I promise. Or I think. Or something like that.