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Monday, May 31, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 161: Another day, another wall
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13,154 steps After a morning run, I went through our receipts and added up how much we've spent on our communist apartment renovations s...
Sunday, May 30, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 160: Piano recital
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11,570 steps We had an international Zoom music recital this evening with my 3 sisters and their kids, my parents, and two other families t...
Saturday, May 29, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 159: Miracle of the fishes, attempt #2
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I wrote a long post about today and it got lost when I hit "post" on Facebook. I see a little spinning thing that's been goin...
Friday, May 28, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 158: Goodbye, wood worms
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14,054 steps I had a hard time waking up this morning. I laid in bed and pretended I was asleep until just before 8 am. Eric was kind enough...
Thursday, May 27, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 157: Braving the wilds of Leroy Merlin
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Lots of steps and too many € Well, today was the day: another big shopping trip to Leroy Merlin. It took us 5 hours and lots of €. We ordere...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 156: Soccer with an unexpected twist
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7,682 steps I woke up very early--before 6 am--and wasn't ready to be awake. Once Zari and Dio got up at 7, I brought their toothbrushes...
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 155: On the 2nd day of plumbers...
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12,314 steps My true love gave to me: a toilet drain hidden in the wall! They managed to chisel out enough rocks to recess the entire 10 ...
Monday, May 24, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 154: Invasion of the plumbers!
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11,737 steps Lots of noise and excitement today: the plumbers arrived. Cue the jackhammering all day long. It was a bit odd because they ar...
Sunday, May 23, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 153: Silly movies
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13,029 steps We had a family movie afternoon and watched "The Mitchells vs. The Machines." The movie was silly and predictable, a...
Saturday, May 22, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 152: Birthdays and soccer
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8,848 steps Ivy and I went to a friend's birthday party at a park about 20 minutes away, while everyone else played soccer at the chatea...
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Friday, May 21, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 151: Nearing the (ceiling) finish line
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20,116 steps Not a bad exercise day, between going running in the morning, running errands the rest of the morning, and jack hammering in th...
Thursday, May 20, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 150: 2 shower day
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11,365 steps Today was a two-shower day. Eric and I were determined to finish hackhammering the rest of the ceiling, so we worked in the mor...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 149: Getting serious about the ceiling
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12,674 steps It's the first day that restaurants and bars have been allowed to open for more than 7 months. Outdoors only for now. But t...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 148: So, so tired
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12,197 steps What's wrong with me? I've been exhausted all day. So tired I went on a walk instead of running. So tired I fell asleep...
Monday, May 17, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 147: From zzz to zoom
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Yesterday was a Very Hard Day for me emotionally and that carried over into a poor night's sleep and me feeling jittery and exhausted th...
Sunday, May 16, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 146: Swimming in a church
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10,221 steps We attended the baptism of a family we're friends with: a son who is about Ivy's age. While they were filling up the fo...
Saturday, May 15, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 145: Soccer & barbeque
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7,014 steps My Zoom meeting ended well after 12:30 am, and then I couldn't fall asleep for a few more hours. I still woke up around the ...
Friday, May 14, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 144: We've got fiber
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12,386 steps We had another appointment to get fiberoptic installed, and this time the technicians did their job. We had the exact same prob...
Thursday, May 13, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 143: More wires, more soccer
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8,192 steps Eric brought the 3 oldest kids to pickup soccer this morning. It was a bit too advanced for Ivy, so she stayed home with me. She...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
French apartment renovations, Day 142: Soccer, sun, and wind
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14,535 steps I baked bread this morning, then went for a run when the last batch was in the oven. It was super windy and I felt slower than ...
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