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For you, I make good price. For everyone else, I make bad price.
posted 11/05/08Buying a rug 2005Megan: Don't buy a rug in Fez. They are much less expensive in Rabat.Us: OK.[In Fez]Guide: Let me show you this rug shop.SH, Me: No, we are not interested in buying a...
View ArticleTangled up in blue part 2
posted 11/07/08Henry and I were looking at some photos and came across one of a man wearing a blue shirt riding a camel. Me: Henry, who is that? Henry: I think it’s SH. Me: I don’t think it is. I don’t...
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posted 11/07/08Warning on the battery inside my Radio Your Way, SH's Christmas present to me last year that I love, love, love and that died inexplicably and I can't get it replaced or repaired because...
View ArticleVery Rainman
posted 11/08/08SH decides that he needs to replace FM 99.1 (preset 3) with FM 93.3 on the car stereo presets. He resests 95.7 from preset 2 to preset 3, 94.5 from preset 1 to preset 2, and sets preset...
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posted 11/09/08SH: Look at this pull chain at Menard's. It's only a dollar. I can put it in the tool room. Me: I was just going to tie a piece of string to the chain that's there. SH: But it's only a...
View ArticleIt's better not to look
posted 11/09/08My friend Luke, the beloved of the wonderful SFGirl with whom I get pedicures, has generously offered some at-home web work to me. I am delighted at the opportunity to make some money...
View ArticleLet them eat salad
posted 11/10/08Y’all, I am trying really hard not to mock this, because really, what’s it to me what someone else eats or doesn’t eat? Who cares if someone wants to be a vegan and shun honey, butter...
View ArticleMarriage 101, lecture 7: Men and tools
posted 11/14/08A package arrived for SH the other day while he was in Dallas. I emailed him to tell him it had arrived. Me: Hi baby. You got a package from buy.com. SH: The buy.com package is a hammer,...
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posted 11/16/08For some insane reason, I volunteered to set up the membership database for my neighborhood association. What this means is that I entered 263 records into excel, a record consisting of...
View ArticleHe doesn't appreciate great literature
posted 11/18/08Me: I was really worried about getting a ticket this afternoon [when I went to the tech school to get a $12 pedicure]. SH: Did you get one? Me: Let me tell you the story. So I couldn’t...
View ArticleMarriage 101, Lecture 33: Just the facts, ma'am, or Life with an engineer*
posted 11/20/08Me: What would you do if you woke up and you'd gone back 25 years? You would be 18 again, back at college, but you would have the memories you have now? SH (aka Joe Friday to The...
View ArticleMarriage 101, Lecture 45: Your free calling plan and your $42/month YMCA...
posted 11/20/08Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's lazy. But tell me you haven't called your husband on the cellphone rather than climb from the basement to the second floor.
View ArticleHow we met, part 2
posted 11/23/08So when I left you, SH and I were necking on my couch. Then I took him back to the airport (this was the Monday after Thanksgiving) and three days later, he returned to Memphis. I had...
View ArticleBad movies # 47
posted 11/29/08Me: That movie [Au Revoir Les Enfants] sucked. SH: What did you expect? It was about Jews in World War II. Me: It sucked. SH: All you want are happy endings.
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For my birthday, I want a vacuum cleaner*
posted 11/29/08We’ve had this problem for a while: the lip on the kitchen sink prevents the dish tray from draining. Even though I have engineered a solution using the caps from two jars of Honey Roast...
View ArticleKitchen tip #22
posted 12/01/08There are only so many times you can step on the penultimate shelf of the pantry to pull the Chocolate Chunk Hazelnut Biscotti Granola (SH's -- he has a far more sophisticated palate...
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posted 12/02/08After you have eaten all the Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch but before you have replaced the broken little plastic thingy that holds up the Shelf Formerly Used For Stepping On, you may eat...
View ArticleMarriage 101: Lecture 14, Getting Things Done
posted 12/02/08Me: Are you listening to this show? [Home Improvement, Jill, "You don't want me to nag you, you don't want me to hire a handyman, and then you don't want to do the job. What am I...
View ArticlePizza are round? No, pizza are square. Cornbread are round.
posted 12/02/08I always thought that saying was a little odd -- everyone knows that pizza is round. But I chalked it up to the same people who thought of the P&S problem of how many socks do you...
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