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May 15, 2014

thinking that it might be time to switch to iced coffee in the mornings. reading Allegiant…still. It’s just not exciting me so I’m not making time to read. I need to just abandon it or quickly push through. re-reading Practicing His Presence. Other than the Bible this book has been the most influential on my spiritual life and from the very first pages I feel deeply moved. wanting a blender for smoothies. It doesn’t have to be a nice one, just functioning. surprised to find a $50 gift card to Target in my wallet that I haven’t used. How did that happen? Might use it for the blender! excited about the new (free!) gym opening up at work. It’s going…
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currently

May 15, 2014

thinking that it might be time to switch to iced coffee in the mornings. reading Allegiant…still. It’s just not exciting me so I’m not making time to read. I need to just abandon it or quickly push through. re-reading Practicing His Presence. Other than the Bible this book has been the most influential on my spiritual life and from the very first pages I feel deeply moved. wanting a blender for smoothies. It doesn’t have to be a nice one, just functioning. surprised to find a $50 gift card to Target in my wallet that I haven’t used. How did that happen? Might use it for the blender! excited about the new (free!) gym opening up at work. It’s going…
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around here // real life home edition

May 12, 2014

My home is far from where I want it to be, but it’s cozy and in general it makes me happy. It stays pretty clean because I’m a “tidy as you go” kind of person, but nevertheless it’s not usually picture perfect. I decided to take some photos of our most used spaces with evidence of real life in them. I think this is the kind of thing that I will really want to remember down the road, not how everything looked perfectly styled. This is our only eating table. More often than not you’ll find that cushion on the floor because that’s Meredith’s seat and she hates the cushion. Here is our counter peninsula, aka the dumping ground. I…
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around here // real life home edition

May 12, 2014

My home is far from where I want it to be, but it’s cozy and in general it makes me happy. It stays pretty clean because I’m a “tidy as you go” kind of person, but nevertheless it’s not usually picture perfect. I decided to take some photos of our most used spaces with evidence of real life in them. I think this is the kind of thing that I will really want to remember down the road, not how everything looked perfectly styled. This is our only eating table. More often than not you’ll find that cushion on the floor because that’s Meredith’s seat and she hates the cushion. Here is our counter peninsula, aka the dumping ground. I…
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goodbye eddie

May 8, 2014

This morning I woke up to find that our dog Eddie had died sometime in the night. We are sad. As you may know, Eddie has been struggling with severe anxiety for the last several months since Cleo died. We had been trying everything we could possibly think of to help her and I thought we were on the right track, but in the last week she relapsed and became destructive to our house and furnishings. We don’t blame her; we know she was suffering and didn’t know how to deal with it. It’s possible that she was physically sick but we were unaware. She had been checked by the vet and there wasn’t anything obviously wrong other than her…
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