The LOOOOOONNNNNGGGGG Move

So we gave ourselves a month to move from our apartment to our dream house. A month is a long time. But we are nearing the end. We've got the apartment nearly cleaned out and we are just adding the finishing touches on...

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Perfect! Well, almost...

Last week I traveled to Salt Lake City to present at the Imaging Science and Technology Archiving 2011 conference. Despite what I had heard about the city, I really loved it!Sure, there were some wackos:But it was also...

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A Nemisis for Rupert

There is a little cat who likes to sleep in our back yard. Rupert hates him. Probably in party because they look so similar. We call him Franco.{Franco}{Rupert}Frienemies for life!...

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A Lifetime Supply of Bar Soap!

We inherited a lot of things with the new house. Curtains, curtain rods, vases, poison ivy... But perhaps the most awesome thing is the 9,000 bars* of soap left in our guest bath. They had a cute little apothecary jar...

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Two Messes, One Nicci

In addition to our move from an apartment to our first house, I am also moving offices into a brand new space! Some of these pictures are shots of our move at home and some are shots of the move at work. Can you tell the...

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Stripes!

This past weekend was our second moving weekend and we finally finished our ambitious paint job in the front room: stripes!This job took a lot of painter's tape.I mean a lot.But we are happy with the results! We also continued...

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Kitteez on Milwaukee

This past weekend, we thought we would take the cats over to the new house to start acclimating them to their new environs. After a thorough survey of the surrounds, they promptly found the smallest possible corner and...

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First Weekend as Homeowners!

We closed on our Houston Dream House this weekend! Our amazing real estate agent, Cathy, gave us a lovely gift basket filled with a full Italian dinner (wine included), a lovely wind chime and vase and a gift certificate...

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