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Guess where I ran to during my 15-minute running allotment today?<\/p>\n
Although we live in a VERY desirable neighborhood, our house is OLD. (It’s so old, Willard Scott keeps calling to interview it). We hope to eventually tear it down and rebuild — given the cost of housing in Seattle, this would be the least expensive option — but for now we’re maintaining status quo. We’ve done some small remodeling projects — built a patio in back, painted and re-floored the kitchen — but we’d rather save our money for a major remodel\/rebuild. However, we don’t always have a choice.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year I was forced to buy a brand new oven when the one we received for free went tits up. I know what you’re thinking: “You’re a chef, Betsy. Why didn’t you ALREADY have a new oven?” Well, I don’t cook for my clients in my own home (the health department would not be amused), and again, we wanted to save money. But when our old oven would refuse to light (permeating the house with gas fumes), we knew it was time for me to get a big girl’s oven.<\/p>\n
Lately our house has been showing its age more frequently. We’ve put up with wonky wiring for quite some time (whenever we run our dishwasher and toaster oven at the same time, it trips the circuit breaker), but when things started sparking we knew we could no longer avoid it. Risking life and limb through electrocution my darling switched out the breaker a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n
He then noticed the toilet leak on Tuesday. Fortunately he had a light week in terms of photo assignments, so he spent the entire day fixing the problem. Knowing it wouldn’t be an easy task, he recommended I use my client’s facilities as much as possible. But being the good girl I am — I try to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day — by the time I got home I had to go potty. Fortunately there’s a public restroom at Greenlake, so that’s where I ran to.<\/p>\n
(Shhhh… don’t tell my physical therapist: although I’m only to run 15 minutes — 1 min. walk\/3 min. run — the potty break was a 25 minute round trip.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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