Emily and Matt » Around the House http://emilyandmatt.org/blog We're living it up as newlyweds! Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:32:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Apologies to the gifters http://emilyandmatt.org/blog/happily-married/apologies-to-the-gifters/ http://emilyandmatt.org/blog/happily-married/apologies-to-the-gifters/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:36:00 +0000 Emily http://emilyandmatt.org/blog/?p=529 Matt: Look what I did today. (Opens the kitchen garbage can.)

Emily: You made a tuna sandwich?

Matt: No.

Emily: You didn’t like the meatballs?

Matt: No.

Emily: You…broke a champagne flute?

Matt: Yea…

Emily: YES!!

Matt: (Extremely confused look on his face)

Emily: WE’RE TIED! Now I don’t feel so guilty for breaking that wine glass!

]]> http://emilyandmatt.org/blog/happily-married/apologies-to-the-gifters/feed/ 1 Dear previous homeowner, http://emilyandmatt.org/blog/happily-married/dear-previous-homeowner/ http://emilyandmatt.org/blog/happily-married/dear-previous-homeowner/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:54:23 +0000 Emily http://emilyandmatt.org/blog/happily-married/dear-previous-homeowner/ I think I have a clue as to why you may have foreclosed on your home. The answer just came to me as I must now remove our address from seven more catalogs. The total cancelled catalogs must be somewhere in the realm of 20. Scratch that, I am unsubscribing from eight of them currently. I unearthed another one.

Seriously though, what is so awesome about Duluth Trading Co.? Their tagline is “seriously usable stuff for women.” Totally usable stuff includes a genuine shearling hat that goes perfectly with … Swedish FireSteel fire igniters? More usable stuff to me would be along the lines of hand soap or even toilet paper. I definitely use that stuff way more than flint. Then there is another publication with 84 pages of cat accessories. I won’t even get started on that one.

I’m sorry that you lost your home, well only partly since it’s ours now and we love it. Maybe lay off the retail therapy temptation by not ordering a bazillion catalogs.

Thanks,

Emily

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Matt just scanned the stud detector across me and it started beeping.

“I guess it works!”

Anywho, a few weeks ago it was the rod for the living room draperies. Now it is a towel rack for the downstairs bathroom. We also added a shower curtain rod in the second bathroom, but that wasn’t as exciting as it didn’t require power tools. GrrrRohRohRoh. (Attempted Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor grunt.)

So here we are with our towel rack installation:

 Emily hard at work…or hardly working.

I did use the screwgun, but it sadly went undocumented.

Matt, who did most of the work.

Acting like I did it all.

As everyone’s favorite Pixar robot would say: ta da!

Ta Da!

I’m so glad we have blogging, to document the important things…

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