Hail to the Victors!

ShowOff

Just wanted to show off my new beautiful bed that Randy made me. I am thrilled with it and I think Randy forgot to post his pics cause his are way better than mine.

Weekend Relaxation

This is Bebo showing off his "Ups." We went to a friend's house to play volleyball and I pulled my rectus femoris again, which I keep doing. So then I went inside to watch us KILL Notre Dame! WooooHoooo! We're still working on the drywall. Mudding takes forever. Who knew? After another ~3 coats we'll be on to painting and when that's done I'll put down the fake hardwood linoleum floor! Pesto! One in home workout gym.

Guest Blog: "Dr. Ywall"

Before Drywall, but Following 200 Bullet Driven Concrete Nails:



One Bloody Thumb and Several "Discussions" Later:




Time to Fill in the Holes:



Melanie and I have been hard at work the last couple of weekends trying to finally make some progress on her plans to finish the basement. While the project, in theory, appeared to be rather straight forward, the act, as is often the case, turned out to be quite challenging. In order to hang the drywall, as well as mount the outlets/switches etc, we needed to first fasten wooden slats to the concrete walls. This involved using a nail gun that fired gunpowder driven nails through our boards into the concrete (ok, yes, despite the blisters, that part was fun). Unfortunately, problems arose as we discovered the walls were not square, or smooth, or flat, or straight, or even concrete in places... but we managed to figure things out and are now close to finishing the first room.

Seeing as we have an agreed upon system in place for these initial stages the rest of the basement should come into form smoothly... Now that is just asking for it..

A penny saved is still a penny.

Here is my burgeoning penny collection established in mid-August. This collection includes one gold-plated penny from 1993.



These are my old pennies. These will be cataloged and shipped for storage in my safety deposit house located in Roanoke, VA.

Forever Young

Sunday, 9/3/2006, 4:04 PM

26 y.o. female MD/PhD candidate answers phone in her mortgaged home with the greeting, "Hello?".

Telemarketer uses honeyed tones to ask "Is your mommy or daddy there?".

Reply: "No."