My Dog is Chelsea

I have not forgotten. I’ve just had lunch meetings every day this week. Blogging to resume shortly.

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No, your eyes are not deceiving you! This indeed my second blog post IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS.
What’s with the flurry of activity, you ask? Is MDIC experiencing a non-busy period of her life? Au contraire, my friends. Between work, ultimate frisbee and putting food on the table and my head on the pillow, I [...]

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What the what? It’s already mid-June, not that you’d know that by measuring the rainfall in the last four weeks. Summer is slooooowly arriving (sources say this weekend will be sunny!) and frisbee season is in full effect. Highlights of the past coupla months:

Housewarming BBQ! We finally had a real party up in this joint [...]

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The gas station cashier where I picked up the Uhaul sold me a few moving boxes.
“Moving? You buy house?” he asked. An older Asian man, he was not a native English speaker and his sentences a little choppy.
“Yep! I did. And now I have to move,” I said. And then, because I’ve been stressed out to [...]

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As you may recall, back in September I posted about how I was trying to buy a house. It’s been quite the journey since then. I’ve seen the insides of what feels like half of all of the homes in Portland. Three accepted offers, three inspections, three appraisals. Two deals fell through. (And one dragged [...]

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