The Online Journal of Melissa Mularski

Thursday 08-21-08

Body Pump at the YMCA — 60 minutes

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I started and finished painting the front of the garage today. Maybe we’ll get the sides and back of the house and garage done before the weather turns cold, but if not we’ll do it next year.
On a more fun note, Owen started learning to ride his bike today. We rode it up and down […]

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The trees in front really need trimming, so we went out and bought a pole cutter/pruner today. I cut down a ton of branches with some help from Owen, we packed them up in the minivan (it was completely full), and took them to the brush/recycling center. Now you can actually see the house from […]

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Owen’s home, so it’s going to be trickier getting home projects done. He’s helpfully told me he’d be happy to play a game his dad loaned him, Star Wars: Empire At War, while I paint. I told him I’d prefer he was reading, but he rolled his eyes at me. The game involves a lot […]

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I needed to do a a little more prep work — I trimmed a lot off the barberry bushes in front so I could safely paint behind them. I spent a few hours painting afterward.
We had to stop our projects to take a bunch of branches and a pile of stuff Michael pulled from the […]

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A lot of the work we’ve been doing inside and out this summer is because of a big party we’re having here Labor Day weekend. We’ve been going back and forth deciding whether we should paint the house and garage before the party. Today we decided we’re going to do it, but maybe just the […]

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Work work work with a nice dinner out afterwards.

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Thursday 08-14-08

Body Pump at the YMCA — 60 minutes

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Owen and I went to Space Chimps–the Kid’s Rule movie at the Menomonee Falls Marcus Cinema. When we got there (early) both screens of it were sold out for their ten o’clock showing. They decided to do another two showings of it at Noon, so we got tickets for it then. One of the vendors […]

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Owen sleeping in
Poisonwood Bible
Eggs and sausage
Kong with sausage and eggs
Floors and fridge washed
Ball with Layne fetched
Blue Dragon
Snuggles and kisses
Cafe Fair espresso beans
Summons at the door: not for us, but not fun nonetheless
Blue Dragon again
More snuggles more kisses
Sleep

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