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Nothing But A Pile Of Sticks: Part 4- The Hotel and The Search

Boba Fett

Image by Sam Howzit via Flickr

So by now you know of just some of the crap that has completed our lives here at the Matthews house over the past month and a bit.  I have covered the reality and the move so here is the next chapter in the saga.  I could only wish that this saga chapter four was in any way comparable to another saga chapter four namely “Star Wars”.  But alas, as much as I would like to be, I will never be Boba Fett.
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Nothing But A Pile Of Sticks: Part 5- Moving Again

Do you ever get a strange little…Deja Vu feeling? That is what I had when we got into this new house.  Imagine if you will a deep dark hole.  Then imagine throwing everything that you own into it, except the computer of course.  That is just how I felt On this July 1st when I picked up my second Uhaul truck in a week.

And then it was just doing it all over again.  Moving your entire house twice in the space of a week is exhausting, not only mentally, but physically.  Or maybe I should say that the other way around.

(Picture is from William-Adolphe Bouguereau and is depicting Virgil and Dante‘s journey through Hell in the Divine Comedy.  Read it if you haven’t, it is interesting.  The captions are mine)
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Nothing But A Pile Of Sticks: Part 3- Kettlebell Conundrum

Bison

Image by goldberg via Flickr

One of the funnest parts about having a ton of people help you move is that several people get to see what you have accumulated.  Luckily I don’t have a porn collection for anyone to find.  You should have seen some of the looks that I got when I was taking my guns out to the car.  Not to mention how uncomfortable one of the good church going guys was when he found the pistol under my mattress.

Among the fun things that people wondered over were the buffalo.  Wait, not the buffalo.  That is just a picture suggested by Zemanta with no discernible link to my article.  Actually the thing people wondered about were my Kettlebells.
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Nothing But A Pile Of Sticks: Part 1

Foreclosure, Mortgage Crisis. Deserted House.

Image via Wikipedia

Hello all.  It has been quite a while since I have written anything, let alone a blog post.  This has been a very busy/traumatic/brain bending/insane type of month.  I have barely been on the computer, and nowhere near keeping up with any of my blogs.  So now, I am back like the prodigal son.  And write I will.

Today I want to hit on some of these things that have been happening to my family.  First of all, we have become a statistic.  For bett…well for worse, not for better we have become one of the millions that have been forced from their home by unethical banks that have way too many divisions and wait for their ultimate reward, foreclosure.
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