An Update: Sugar Allergy

Lately, there has been a surge in people searching for and commenting on a post I did early this year. I figured I’d give an update….
Courtney’s sugar intolerance is continuing strong. We’re still not sure whether it’s an intolerance or an allergy, and I’ve started using the terms almost interchangeably. Sure, we could go find [...]

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She’s a rare talent indeed

Here’s a piece that Courtney has been working on for… years? It feels like at least a year, but I may be very wrong on that one.
It’s one of her better pieces, I think, and quiet delicately beautiful. As soon as we get the money together, we’ll frame it and hang it somewhere.
MarlaJayne–Is that offer [...]

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Sugar Allergy

A few weeks ago we discovered that Courtney is allergic to sugar. That means no sugar, no brown sugar, no corn syrup, and no high-fructose corn syrup at all. And boy were we surprised at how many foods have one of those four kinds of sugar in them. We’ve come to the conclusion that if [...]

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Five… long… years….

I forget where or when, but the topic of our anniversary came up once in mixed company. Courtney was sitting beside me, and I mentioned that we’d soon hit our fifth anniversary (it’s today by the way), and I made the comment that it had been “five… long… years…” at which point Courtney jabbed me [...]

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DIAMOND!!!

We’re going to Niel Diamond!!! Courtney agreed to buy me tickets for my birthday if I could find seats in the cheap seats. Last time, the venue only had about 300 cheap seats, and the rest were all full price seats at $135 a head. This time there are a lot more cheap seats, and [...]

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Courtney’s Bread

It’s a conspiracy: My wife came to earth to make me fat.
And I have proof.
Yesterday, I came home to home-made French Dip Sandwiches with home-made bread, home-made au jus, and home-cooked beef slices. She even forced me to eat two of them. And that’s not the only evidence I have. She also makes these [...]

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A Valentine Wish

Yes, it is once again that holiday. I’m just not a fan.
We compromise by doing what we call Pseudo-Valentine’s Day; a holiday of our own making where we celebrate our love in our own peculiar way.
This year as we think of what we want to do, we keep coming back to the simple basics of [...]

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He should have known better.

Yesterday came with the news that Heath Ledger had died of an apparent drug overdose. Courtney and I have always really liked Heath Ledger since seeing him in Knights Tale. To be sure, his death came as a surprise to me. I’ve always seen him as a clean cut guy though I readily admit to ignorance [...]

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Falling Forever

With the end of the year, I see two anniversaries (three if you count my birthday): My fourth wedding anniversary and my first blogging anniversary.
The blogging anniversary is fun. I resisted blogging for a very long time because I saw it as a too-public display of my life. On the other hand, it has become [...]

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My family loves me

How do I know? It’s all the little things, really.
For example, we had to reorder checks today, and one of my oddities came out: I have always loved Ms. Piggy from the Muppets. I don’t know if it’s because I can do a perfect imitation (no, really, I can) or what, but I have always [...]

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