Archive for April 2013
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I’ve been reading the archives of Ugly House Photos, a blog of photos from a Phoenix area realtor, featuring “Homes With Clutter, Ugly Décor, and Bad Taste”. I like it because I grew up in Phoenix and it feels like going back in time to my weird 70s childhood. Many, many people in Phoenix moved…
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Malibu: It’s so hard to get away from my flocks and fans. But I have found my solitude. Beautiful, beautiful solitude. Nothing to see here, tourists. Let me be. But here they come. They always find me. Damn Quackarazzi. (We apologize to the poor, sleeping duckie. But Tamar and I thought it was just so…
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I’ve been allowing myself to fantasize about being a house owner, even though it may not happen. A popular bedtime ritual the past week has been to go through months and years of “Before and After” posts on Design Sponge, Apartment Therapy and Curbly while mentally designing my fictional living spaces (you can keep up on…
Read Morehouse hunty part 1
I think I want to buy a house. I don’t know if I can buy a house, so I’m finding out everything I can about it. I will be post my progress here from time to time. My time with my Elderly Relative is drawing to a close. If all goes to agreed plan, by…
Read Morethe chivalry cavalry
Another Monday, come too soon after a horrendous week of taxes, fraud, iPad cracks. I drove down Channel Islands Boulevard to get a few hours of work in at the Giant Franchise coffee shop, the only option in my area to get coffee, wifi — and away from John. As I came to a stop…
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