When I was a kid, my grandparents had a pair of round black chairs, shaped rather like barrels, in the front room of their house in SoCal. My grandfather always sat in the one facing the front door. I remember sitting in his lap when I was very, very young and playing with the skin [...]
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Fuad is already in bed. A combination of jet lag and recovering from a stomach bug sent him to bed a few hours ago and left me to ring in the arbitrary turning of the arbitrary western year alone. Or perhaps I’ll sleep through it too. While he was away, I put in some landscape lighting [...] I am driving back home tomorrow. It’s an eight or nine hour drive. My last task before getting home will be to pick up Lucy the Cat. It’s going to be a long day. Fuad returns from the Middle-East via France on Tuesday, so after nearly a month, our little family will be back together in [...] Well, I guess I’m ready to write again… I took Fuad to the airport this afternoon. He is now on his way home to see his mom and family for the first time since leaving his middle-eastern home country 13 years ago. Now that he’s an American citizen, he is finally able to make this trip. [...] up daily until midnight one or two a.m. packing moving unpacking sorting assembling we are exhausted how in the heck did we collect so much crap it seems like every time we finish a project three more spring up or worse in order to do one project eight prerequisite tasks must be completed first for a [...] … for a while anyway. I’m feeling a bit dark and outraged right now, hence this picture, though it was taken three weeks ago. No, we haven’t moved yet but we are working on it. Much has been packed and moved and much remains to be done. The movers will come for the large items on [...] We signed the loan documents and transferred the down payment into the escrow account. I am now broke, with a whopping $501 in my checking account. Looming large on the horizon is our rent for November. It’s going to be tight. I haven’t had to live on a budget in years, but suddenly I find [...] It’s happened very quickly. On Saturday, September 13th, we met with our real estate agent to discuss our price range and the locations we were interested in. One week later we toured this house. It was the ninth house we toured and we both knew it was IT. Three days after that we were in [...] On June 3rd, I wrote the following: We are going to have a party later this summer … because something else is happening later this month – and I’m not talking about my birthday. More details when it comes to pass. The mystery is over. At his naturalization ceremony this morning, Fuad became a citizen of the [...] I clicked my heels together three times and… If only if it were that easy. On the other hand, if it weren’t for the flight from Madrid, I would have missed my only opportunity to speak Spanish for any length of time. The woman seated next to me was from Granada and was patient enough to [...] |
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