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One of many issues

So I have this problem. I can’t seem to be able to throw papers away. Or throw…STUFF… away, really. It piles and piles and then I move the piles around and SAY I’m going to file it where it belongs…

You know the drill. Move the piles again. Until something important gets lost [...]

Two birds, one stone

So waaaay back in February, I bought the house from my Mama.

Toward the first of the month, I read a post on Lifehacker ( Remove Rust from Cast Iron Cookware in your Oven ) and realized I hadn’t run the oven cleaning cycle since the paperwork was signed.

After reading that [...]

As if I didn’t have enough to do

I bought the house from Mama.

No, I haven’t completely lost my mind. (Although sometimes I do wonder.)

How many chances do you get to buy a home from the original owner when you KNOW what the issues are?

So far I’ve alternated between putting out fires and trying to make upgrades. [...]

Rebooting

Life y’all. Sometimes you live it.

Sometimes you fasten your seatbelt and pray.

I’m very conscious of the fact that some folks can actually feel the stress/emotion in a post (because I’m one of those people, yo) and I didn’t want to drop a stress bomb on y’all.

It became impossible to [...]

The problem presented itself as an odd moment. I heard the dog drinking and knew that there’s not SUPPOSED to be water where she was. 1 However…it did not immediately click that I should go up the hill and check on it. I assumed she’d found one of Mama’s many plant pots full [...]

Requiem for a sofa

It was ugly. Not butt-ugly, but…didn’t go with anything else ugly. A dual-reclining heavy monstrosity that was a pain in the behind to clean under. Blue, with peach plaid striping and a pineapple in each square.

The sofa was in the livingroom when I moved back home from Little Rock. Like everything else [...]

My take on New Year’s Dinner

I cooked y’all (don’t have a heart attack!). Mama said she wasn’t going to, and I decided that I NEEEEED the traditional southern New Year’s dinner. Since I can’t make myself be “traditional”, I turned it into soup. Collards for folding money, blackeyed peas for coins, pork for luck, and I decided that [...]

I get to pack one now, but I hated it then.

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Write of Passage

It was yellow. Shaped like a school bus. Snoopy decorated the top panel. Mama bought a blue one for my brother, and a yellow one for me.

It was last year’s lunchbox and Mama wouldn’t buy me a new one for the new year. “There’s NOTHING wrong with it!!!”

Except there is. [...]

Flooring, Floored

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series I'm the man of the house.

This post is dedicated to those of you who don’t follow me on twitter. You’re missing…a lot.

It was, it is, it has been time to rip the carpets out of this house for longer than I care to admit. There will be no “before” pictures because I have to handle the carpet [...]

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The backup laptop has a pentium III processor and a whopping 192 mb of ram. whywhyWHY did I keep it? It never fails – fill the bowl with bleach and everybody has to go potty RIGHTNOW. Flooring, round 2 coming up. Dear Teen Driver: I don’t care how loud the bass is [...]

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