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June 23, 2004
almost had to change my name...
The name of this blog, that is. My in-laws, who have inadvertantly inspired my interests in home decorating and spending, visited this week. Before they arrived, each free waking moment I had was spent cleaning. While they were here, (nearly) every waking moment was spent shopping and eating with them. And since they've left, I've been working to re-align my normal non-spending, non-doughnut eating self with the principles that I hold dear--those principles which, when I'm with B's family, cannot exist lest I offend their lifestyle with my own (as in, my "No, I am not eating a doughnut--they are fat, empty calories, cavity-breeding, and diabetes-inducing sugar overload" would imply that their choice to eat such nonsense was flawed).
At any rate, B was fairly certain that his parents would march us down to Home Depot for linoleum to replace the fabulously, ridiculously impractical carpet in the kitchen. Instead they deemed our lack of dishwasher to be the more heinous home problem we faced, and marched down to Sears to purchase one for us.
So for now, the carpet in the kitchen is saved. Although I did notice this morning, as I, barefoot, stepped close to the fridge, the sticky nasty spot where H spilled nearly a half gallon of apple cider. Euugh.
Posted by mryonker at June 23, 2004 10:07 AM