Water water… nowhere

Fuck you, DeKalb County Water & Sewer. You’ve apparently been out to our house three times now, once to erroneously turn off the water and twice to turn it back on. Except you haven’t turned it back on. You’ve gone out, seen that the house is trying to use water (from where? we’re not sure), [...]

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Home-O

C’mon, say it. We’re Home-Os now! Homeowners! Whoo! I can’t believe that, in one year, I’ve gone from unemployed to owning a house ITP in Atlanta. For the first time in years, I don’t have a box number, an apartment number, or a room number. It’s a good feeling.
Already, the wallpaper is gone! We discovered [...]

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Eep!

We close on the house this afternoon. I didn’t sleep well last night, thinking about it. In around 8 hours, we’re going to own a house.

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US vs. Italy, halftime

2 red cards!? The first was deserved, but I disagree with the second, sir! No red card should be given as a make-up call, and make-up calls shouldn’t be given. If you called it badly the first time, just do well the second time. Mastroeni got a piece of the ball, it was not a [...]

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Next picks

Before they start playing second games, I’d better tell you my favorites for the other half of the groups:
E. Italy and United States. I know the US probably isn’t going to go on, but a girl can dream, can’t she? It’ll probably be Italy and Czech Republic unless the US pulls off something spectacular today.
F. [...]

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Germany 4:2 Costa Rica

For game 1, I went with a co-worker to a local sports bar. We watched the first half, had a beer, some lunch, and it was tasty. Stella + soccer is great! I ‘watched’ the second half via the live commentary on the Fifa site. Since I don’t think I can skip out that much [...]

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