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Fred insists on sitting with me in the chair. The problem is his ass has grown to three feet wide. Something has to give...the physics here clearly are not working.

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Thank you u.p.s. My tile arrived today. I did a quick fit tonight and it looks pretty sweet.

It's definitely bold. I think it matches my personality, though.

Since I have a chistmas dinner to cook for tomorrow and 32 little house episodes to get through, and the need to buy a trowel, grout, and cement, I'll have to put it on hold until wednesday..... that makes me sad.

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more colors, and now some legs. Chistmas vacation is the best thing ever. It's an endless slew of projects to work on.

the saw is family

My backyard is overrun with little trees and cutting them down has been on the to do list for a while. I stopped at the depot and picked up a little chainsaw to do the task.


Chainsaws and I go way back to the white trash days. I spent the better part of my youth washing them off and maintaining them at the rental store. My body even bears the bite of a saw, right above the knee. Yes, it is manly to have a chainsaw scar. One of the trees I cut down fell on the neighbors house......it's ok, they weren't home and didn't break anything but it reminded me of this time........


Do you remember the movie a christmas story where the dad blows up while he was working on the furnace? We had this huge tree in the backyard growing up that had died. My dad, who hated doing home stuff was finally nagged into cutting it down. We gathered in the backyard to watch and I distinctly remember my brother saying, don't drop it on the patio furniture.

The saw fired up and he began cutting, minutes later the familiar cracking of wood took place and the tree began to fall. In fact, in mere seconds it collapsed directly onto the patio furniture.

Immediately, we fell to the ground in a fit of laughter. You can imagine how well over this went. His face turned red, he threw down the saw and walked off.

Kids are truly assholes.

I suppose thats better than doing something crazy like using a chainsaw to cut the sofa in half.

holiday tiredness

I've been going non stop for the last week. Holiday parties abound.....i did order tile today. So for over christmas my possible projects include:

1) laying tile
2) ripping carpet out of bedroom
3) ripping up stupid linoleum tile in the kitchen and staining the concrete.

I've also discovered the local library has ever season of little house on the prarie on dvd. I intend on watching them all over break.

Now, go listen to izzy.

http://myspace.com/izzycox

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Potential tile......Suggestions?

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Originally uploaded by ruelloehr.

I caught fred sitting funny. He's a filthy beast.

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This one is going to be fun. I'm not sure how its going to look.......I'm thinking very plain, simple, with muted colors.....yellows and green.

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Originally uploaded by ruelloehr.

Fun with the color blue.

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Originally uploaded by ruelloehr.

I need something to hold my attention while i'm awaiting tile shipments. I found a giant piece of plywood in the garage. Gulp. I guess i'm starting a new painting.



I've always been fascinated with female bass players.

But really, who isnt?

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Today was shitty. First, my house ac blew up. I'm a fan of a cold house. Restoring the igloo state will not be cheap.

Then on the drive home I looked down to see this. Have you ever had a butthole puckering moment where you're pretty sure you're not going to make it to the station?

You start turning things off in the car and coasting as much as possible in hopes of prolonging your fuel......

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All the other pumps had bags over the handles denoting "out of service"