Reasons Why There Is A Random Wheelchair Next Door

Here are some possible reasons why an abandoned wheelchair has been sitting in the front yard of the vacant house next door to mine for the past two days: Someone in one of the neighboring houses needs a wheelchair some of the time, but they don’t feel like actually storing it inside their house.  Where [...]

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Trash I Have Found In My Yard

One of the thing that irks me most about my new home is that it is in a location where people apparently feel it is appropriate to throw trash in my yard. In the five months I’ve lived in my house, I have found an incredible amount and variety of garbage. The trash includes, but [...]

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135 Days At Home

I have been living in my house for 135 days now, and I am happy that it is finally really starting to feel like home. Sometimes I am filled to the brim with love for my house, and I find myself thinking, “I just want to live here forever! I never want to have to [...]

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Conversations I’ve Had In My New Neighborhood, About My Dog

1. (I am walking my dog down the street one over from mine. There are two houses next to one another, with people sitting on the front porches. One house has a old man sitting on the porch. The other house has a young couple sitting on the porch.) Old Man: THAT… is a nice [...]

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No longer feeling under attack

My new house is starting to become less threatening. I’m still stuck dealing with an air conditioner repair dude who really creeps me out, in a way that goes beyond a mere suspicion of the integrity of his business practices, but who gives me that cliche women’s intuition red flag of NOPE NOT OKAY. However, [...]

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Reminds me of home

I moved into my new house last Friday. Since then, it has kind of seemed like my new house is out to get me. The air conditioning hadn’t been working, so a repair guy came out last Friday to take a look. He told me that my air conditioner was not working because it appeared [...]

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SO!

Melody, what have you been doing with your time lately, since you clearly have not been updating this nice blog? 1. Buying a house. Yeah. The house isn’t officially mine yet, so I’m not going to say too much, although all signs currently point to go. I will just say that the house is fantastic, [...]

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