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To make the perfect hairstyle for a lazy day, just put your hair in a half-up bun, and then straighten the hair that is down and you are done!

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This weekend, my mother and I drove to Connecticut to pick up my grandmother, who is visiting for the week. Without us there, my father, Erik, David and Sam got to work on replacing the rotted sill! It proved to be a much more complicated process than any of us imagined, with bowing walls, crooked sill pieces, and lots of heavy lifting! They spent several hours getting two large sections of sill fitted in, along with straightening out the crooked wall. We also managed to get the front of the house cleared of siding, leaving only one small section of house left to remove siding from. The lawn also got mowed for a third time (woot!) and now is starting to resemble grass!

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And so the treasure hunting begins! On Wednesday, I purchased our first piece of "furniture" for the house... A beautiful old cast iron claw foot tub! I'm not sure on the year of it, but I got a great deal on it and it's in great shape! The inside is relatively unmarred, and the outside needs new paint and fixtures. We got in our order of new siding on Thursday, so this weekend we're hoping to get all the damaged siding off and ready for replacement. I have a photo shoot in the morning tomorrow, so I spent some time by myself today pulling off old siding on the front of the house to try and get a jump on it. It was just me and the dogs for a couple hours, and was nicely therapeutic. Tomorrow we hope to finish up pulling off the bad siding and start on power washing the remaining siding in preparation for scraping and painting.

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"Set your own path." - Unknown #quotes #inspiration #searching #future #destiny #dreams #goals #makeithappen #perfectlymessy

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I'm a dog chasing cars.

It was the day when she ended things. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to be isolated and drowned on my sorrow. I txted Dawn and Ben that "she called it quit". Dawn called back right away and asked where I was. Ben took a while longer to respond.

I was sitting on the floor in the new apartment. The rooms were bare with nothing at all. A mild scent of paint still lingered in the air. My sole company was a six pack and I was on my second bottle. "Beer?" I asked Dawn when she arrived.

"Oh sweetie, sure." She reached out for her bottle. "Welcome back to singleville, so what happened?"

I chugged the entire bottle then i proceeded to open the next one. "Not yet," i said. "After this one." I started chugging the new bottle.

Dawn headed me a piece of pastry from the Baker Delight down the road. "Eat something," she advised, "I know what you're like when this happens, I know you feel sick and don't want to eat, but you've got to."

I told her what happened. Dawn's response was, "Well that's not fair, to you. After what you said to her and yet she put you through this...And clearly you are really into her, I saw the way you looked at her. That's when I knew that she's different and special."

"I think I'm just like a dog chasing cars, totally quoting the joker here, or Jenna Marbles, but you know. I'm so into the chase, and the puzzles, and that I always go for the ones who are unavailable, then when they become available, I dunno what to do with them. And you're right. She's different, in a sense that I've told her things that I've never told anyone before. And she's even more special than Joan to me, which makes the fall even more tragic...I don't want to talk about it anymore."

Bottle number 4!

Ben finally called, "Are you okay bro?" 

My breath was a request laced with alcohol; "Come to my empty flat for a drink, How I met your mother style!"