Canned Laughter

Well, the little bath is now gorgeous with new fixtures and paint. Tomorrow I get to paint the bedroom ceiling. Spouse keeps making rude jokes about my obsession with freshly painted ceilings but I can’t get irritated with him because he spent four hours last Sunday trying to remove the toilet lid for me.
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Spent today painting the little 3/4 bath off our bedroom. We have a houseguest coming in December and I want to get our room and bath redecorated in time for her visit. Yes, our room has come to the point where putting out fresh flowers is not enough to make it inviting for guests. I [...]

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Miss Daphne was in doggy heaven this weekend. She got to go to the park, be with all four of her pack members 24/7 and eat and eat. Being a very calm, mature dog we naturally had no problems with roaming or barking although she was very concerned with the toddlers at the campsites on [...]

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Tomorrow we take Daphne The Dane Who Must Be Obeyed camping with us for the first time. I’ll need to wake up early tomorrow as I have plenty of sewing, shopping and packing to do before Spouse gets home from work so we can leave right away. I’m not sure how I’ll be able to [...]

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I’ve been considering that it is highly antifeminist of me to bash other women even if they are GOP-bumper-stickered-Hummer driving, talk radio repeating, obnoxiously-precocious-child rearing Soccer Moms. I’ve even considered changing the name of this blog to reflect my newly charitable outlook. Perhaps something apropos to my domestic leanings like “Suburban Shangri La” or “Home [...]

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