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The Teardos: September 2012

Sunday, September 30, 2012

This is your brain on Sundays

Or is it just mine? I find that each week, rain or shine, every 7 days, I get what I am now going to call "Sunday Brain". It is this weird balance between super focused and complete attention-deficit-ness. (Yes, and with a smattering of made-up words)

The culprit?

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Introductions, please!

If you've started reading our blog, you more than likely know who we are (that would be crazy at this point, otherwise) and thus probably know our sweet pets: Maggie (short for Magnificat) and Pandora.

But, I thought since this is a family blog, that they should get a little screen time, too. So here they are in all of their feline glory:

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Haitian heaven

My boss went to Haiti a few months ago. And while he brought himself back a stomach bug, he brought me back coffee!!

I finally got around to trying it this morning. We have a Keurig (which we insist on prouncing as: Koy-röghghgh) which is wonderfully convenient but I have fallen victim to only using the store-bought k-cups. Yes, they are super wasteful, but yes, they are super fast and easy.

So. We decided that once we ran out of k-cups we would only use the "my k-cup" which is basically a mini coffee filter that lets you use just one serving of coffee. Great, right? So in the spirit of this eco-challenge, (and to bring this post back around to my point) I remembered this coffee my boss bought me back and tried it this mooning.

Scrumptious!!!

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Unabashed gloating

Our honeymoon vista:

(how much do we wish we were back there?!)

 

 

The Teardos- first wedding picture!

Photo credit: the amazing Zlatko Batistich
 

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Moving on up...

Hi everyone! Fred and I are so very excited to welcome you to our family blog. Here we are going to post all of the goings-on as we start our new life both together and in Birmingham, Al. 

I'm writing now comfortably holed up in midtown Manhattan, with the rain falling and the cats tolerating each other.  Fred is in Minneapolis (I think- I really do have the worst memory) and will get home tomorrow.  We're actually going to be spending a lot of the last 30 days in NYC apart, as we get done all those things that need to get done before moving.


[Update: yes, Fred was in Minneapolis and then today was in Madison, WI. Bless Facebook.]

Moving...


Is there ever such a horrible thing? I mean, the travel and new opportunities it affords is awesome, but the process is really rough. I got a moving kit to see if it could help us stay a bit more organized and a lot less stressed. We'll see how that goes...


The purpose of setting up our humble little blog is three-fold:

1. To let our now out-of-town friends and family see what we're up to.
2. To journal/archive as we go about setting our new home, including organization, DIY projects and renovation! Woot!
3. To contribute back to the blogosphere- I have been reading such amazing blogs that have given me so much inspiration and motivation. While I'd never expect to do all that, I feel like giving back in some small way.

See you again soon!