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It's in her lungs.

Someone helped me install the doors this week, so it was time to take out the existing back wall this weekend. It didn't go entirely as planned, though. The window I needed to re-use in the new outside wall came out fine, but the other 2 windows, that were bigger, just didn't want to come out. They ended cracking and broke. They were going to...
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The more I think about it, the more I want to build my own house. In due time, of course, because there are a bunch of criteria that need to be met before I can even think about starting. By building my own house, I don't mean just designing it by the way, I mean physically building a house. Obviously I'd need some help from...
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I'm not a happy camper this week, when it comes to work anyway. The main contributant is a so called "reflection and discussion day" tomorrow, where our whole department gets locked up for a day to talk about our department and its future. I'm not one for reflection and "opening up to eachother" in the first place, especially when it means a full day of...
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Today is the last day of my vacation, tomorrow I have to be up bright and early again for work. Those 5 weeks went by so fast. While I didn't get everything done on the extension and kitchen project, I did get pretty far. Except for the refrigerator, all the cabinets and appliances are installed. I do need to finish aligning the cabinet doors and...
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For some reason I'm sweating blue the past few weeks. Most of it is still plain-ol' colourless sweat, but the occassional drop is Windex blue. Strange. I haven't noticed any other effects, and by itself it's not something I'll see a doctor for, but next time I'm seeing my doctor I'll bring it up. Does anyone else have strange things their body does? Post it...
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Picture time.

So this is what the back of my house used to look like. On the left side of the picture is my kitchen; the extension on that side will house the laundry room slash mud room. On the right side is the dining room area; the extension on that side will have 3 doors opening out to the terrace. Above the dining room...
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Update on the house project:

After the contractor took care of the floor and foundations last week (pictures will follow in a later blog), this week it was my turn. I took out the old kitchen over the weekend (for those of you that liked my kitchen: don't worry, I'm not going to change too much; most of it is coming back (just more built-in...
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Sooo, my neighbour is being a bit of a dick. Well, he's trying anyway. He's a "contractor" himself (though he only does small carpentry jobs, which makes me wonder if he actually has a license as a contractor ), and tried to halt work on the house because, as he claimed, the foundations the construction guys were setting up were not according to standards (and...
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So the camera bag project took a bit longer than expected. It wasn't the actual work that took that long, though, as that only took me a day or two. The biggest delay was in figuring out how to do it and subsequent trips to the hardware store for materials or tools. Since I work full time (like most people), I'm pretty much bound to...
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