Posts in category House and Yard

This Old Haunted House

Mar02
2012 Kristi Written by Kristi

Our house is quirky, in that funky, built in 1940 kind of way.  We have original tile in the bathroom and kitchen, doors that aren’t a standard jamb width, hardwood floors, sawdust insulation, original light fixtures, coved ceilings.  You get the idea.

At 3am a few weeks ago, I woke up after a fitful bit of sleep.  I turned over, readjusted Monkey from being planted on my shins, and tried to go back to sleep.  Rob was sleeping peacefully.  I was trying to go back to sleep, not succeeding.

And then I heard water.  Running water.  Inside the house.

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Posted in Everyday Life, The Animals

Thanksgiving

Nov24
2010 Rob Written by Rob

I swear to God, we haven’t abandoned this blog. We’ve just both been extremely busy, juggling a variety of dramas (both client-centric and otherwise) and have shifted a lot of our day-to-day news updating to our Facebook pages. But R&K is still on the air.

My brother comes into town for Thanksgiving tomorrow! It’s been almost a year since we’ve seen him last. Though we talk at least once or twice a week on the phone (and spend quality time playing Bioshock 2 and Red Dead Redemption online), it’s just not the same as being there in person. So if I were to sketch up a list of things to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving 2010, topping the list would be seeing my brother again.

A list of other updates and thanksfulnesses after the jump.
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Posted in Everyday Life, Faith, Family and Friends, The Animals, Travel, Work

New Office!

Oct03
2010 Kristi Written by Kristi

We’ve been in need of some office upgrades for a while.  Since I’ve been home all the time, there just isn’t a good way for both of us to work with our previous set up.  It worked for a while and then I couldn’t take my small space anymore.

See?  Clean for the pic but not practical, especially after we bought my laptop which was often sitting where that book was in the picture.  So I mentioned to Rob on Wednesday or Thursday last week that I was getting tired of having no desk space and how dark the office was.  That opened the floodgates of discussion about what we wanted, what wasn’t working, what we envisioned.  It turned out that we had a similar idea of what we wanted, a more professional space where we had room to have both computers available (we both work off laptops and desktops at the same time.. it’s crazy but it works).
Rob’s desk (shown here from last winter) took a beating this summer.  His second monitor died and we finally got a proper window covering for the window.  (We’d been using a sheet to cover it.. can you say ghetto?) But the space was dwindling for him and we needed more room for everything.

So, without further ado, the new office.

Rob’s desk and mine are the same.. frosted glass table topped desks from Ikea.   This probably cleanest his desk will ever be.

My desk.. well, part of it anyway because it’s huge!

When Tucker died, we planted some basil and used his old water bowl.  It’s thriving in the western exposure we get in here.  He would’ve knocked it over about, oh, 17 times by now.  We still miss him.

Diplomas courtesy of higher learning.  The painting was a wedding gift from our friend Jen.  We haven’t had a frame for it until now so it’s now joined the display in here.

The whole enchilada.

I’m not going to show the closet because, yanno, office supplies on a bookcase aren’t that exciting.    We are exhausted.  A drive to IKEA yesterday in Oakland followed by hauling out everything that was in here before, assembling everything, and then hauling the little stuff in took us until 11pm last night.  We were up for church at 8am, got home at 2pm and Rob decided to go to Office Depot for the final touches.  I know we are insane.  But our office is clean, tidy and feels more pulled together than it ever has.

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Ernest and Elmer

Jun14
2010 Kristi Written by Kristi

Eugene and Bernard apparently had another sibling down the bathroom sink.  More like twin siblings that we have named Ernest and Elmer.  Many moons ago, we wrote about Eugene, the clog of hair we found in our bathroom sink that was so big we named it.  A few months later, we met his brother Bernard in the bathtub.  Those of you who were here remember them.  Or you should because it was nasty.

Well, the sink started misbehaving again and I thought it was the leftovers of the tap replacement, the piece of the sink plunger we never got around to pulling out of the gooseneck.  So we called my dad to look at it because we don’t really do plumbing and the all important pipe wrenches live with my dad’s other tools in his handy workshop.  My parents came by tonight and instead of finding the missing piece of the stopper for the sink, we encountered Ernest and Elmer (artist rendering as like their older brothers, Ernest and Elmer are afraid of being photographed.)

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(Laura, this is where you can go puke.  We’ll wait.)

So the bathroom sink has once again been rescued and this time we have no one to blame but ourselves for the clog. My apologies for our lack of updates lately.  We’ve been busy working and blogging has fallen off our radar.  We  also had to close access to all but those who log in for a while but we’re tenatively re-opening.

Other things… The pets are still alive and kicking.  The weather has kicked into overdrive and it’s now officially damn hot.  We’re slammed with work in mid-June which is really unheard of but we are not complaining.  I would so rather be doing this than working in the cannery or trying milk every ounce out of life during summer break.  I’m starting to feel a bit of burn out though and I’m anxiously awaiting our planned holidays this summer.  We’ll be at the cabin for a while, and we’re going with my extended family  to the beach for a week.  We haven’t had a proper vacation since our honeymoon and that’ll be 2 years in a few weeks.  We have earned the time off this year and it’ll be good to get away.

Posted in Everyday Life
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