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Come join the fun! It’s Natalie’s New Year’s Pity Party!

I know you are all sitting around waiting for me to finally get my butt in gear and post the sordid details from Holiday Season 2007. And you know what? So am I. I have most of the photos off my card, and have been loading them onto Flickr, set, by tedious [...]

Dead to Me

( Ranting )

It is no secret that I have serious issues when it comes to poor customer service. Knowing this, you will not be surprised at my response to this recent interaction – an interaction that literally frustrated me to the point of tears. However, you will be surprised at which business will – after [...]

Perspective

If I were to give a brief assessment of the last month, I’d say that we have been moving forward, but in a sort of bumpy and uncomfortable is-anyone-having-any-fun-here? kind of way. Unfortunately, it is this state in which our lives currently exists that prohibits me from being able to write a post without [...]

Urban Wildlife

You’d think that by living in the middle of the city that we would be pretty much void of any real animal wildlife. The actuality is that, although from our vantage point there is asphalt as far as the eye can see, we have an active and varied mix of nocturnal mammalian activity within [...]

Kids, pets and pee.

Aside from the fact that we have decided to start this new year by instituting time-outs, banishing all diapers size 5 and up, and rationing water consumption from a bottle (only at sleep time and no more than 4oz), we decided that we needed to really go that extra mile in our new stance on [...]