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  • I keep meaning to post these photos of our living room, updated and without the television. Here is the before: It wasn’t all that terrible, it just wasn’t all that useful either. We didn’t use it as much as we could have because we don’t watch TV with Tuesday (or really that much ourselves anymore) and it was weird to hang out in here all facing a big black box that wasn’t on. With the television gone we re-arranged to make the room more open and hang out friendly. I also wanted to lighten it up so I sewed new…

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  • The concert I posted about happened last Friday (a nice break from all the canning, ha!). Susan Enan showed up to my house a few house early and we chatted while arranging furniture. It was kind of surreal and very awesome. I’m so happy that she agreed to come play at our house. It was such a wonderful evening. Bj was in charge of food and drinks so we had far to much of everything and it was all yummy! I think we had 25 people and Susan relaxed while we ate and talked, then came down for the concert,…

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  • For a while I’ve been bugging Bj to get rid of our TV. He’d want me to get rid of something and I’d throw back a, “well how about you get rid of the TV?” knowing that then I wouldn’t have to get rid of whatever it was he was talking about. It’s not that I never watch it, I have a few shows, but my kid goes to be early at ten (last night 11:30… ugh!) so that doesn’t leave a lot of time for TV watching. I thought the living room would be much more useful without the…

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