Originally posted on April 24th, 2005

Gone Wild
The story begins several months ago when Christopher banished a half-used bag of russet potatoes to the dark, cool, cavernous area below his kitchen sink. Shoving the plastic bag in the cabinet, he went on with his daily activities like learning. The potatoes didn’t fare well in “the hole.” As a matter of fact, it wasn’t long before the eyes, shrouded by the darkness, began to spore tiny green tentacles. Their once tough brown skin loosened as the starchy insides shrank, becoming loose and leathery. Desperate for water and sunlight, the roots took on a flesh color and began to slide along the press board bottom until they reached the side. With nowhere to go but up, they slowly crept, ascending further and further each day.

Weeks passed while Christopher went about his business, too preoccupied to remember the half bag of [...]

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Saying Goodbye.

Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Christine.
Categories: True Story.

>furniture Bulgaria is not an easy post for me to write but after talking to Christopher, we felt it was time to let you all know…

About a month ago, Christopher and I parted ways and officially ended our 3 1/2 year sometimes amazing, often tumultuous relationship. I won’t go into details, but there were some things about “us” that just didn’t seem to work and neither of us could get a handle on to fix.

We’ve decided to leave the site up, but at the moment, neither of us are particularly in the mood to post anything of real substance. Perhaps that will change with a little time.

This site was a gift from …

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Missing in Action

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Christine.
Categories: True Story.

If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard from us, it’s because I was in Seattle this past weekend — my sister and I took my mom up there for her birthday. Christopher, while I was gone, had to have his appendix out in an emergency surgery, and he’s recuperating.

But that’s not the only reason we’ve been MIA. Since our big fight last week, Christopher and I aren’t really sure where things stand with “us,” and we may not be the “Chris and Chris” team much longer. We have a lot to think about on our own, and some things to talk about I suppose. I don’t really know.

What I do know is that I don’t think …

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Christine and Christopher Piss Off the Dance Teacher

Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Christine.
Categories: True Story.

We knew it was going to happen sooner or later, right? At some point, the CVC couple would find a way to draw attention– perhaps one might label as “negative” attention– to ourselves as we progress down the road of life-long learning in the pursuit of learning how to ballroom dance. Last night, on the third Wednesday of our class, it finally happened.

Let me give you the backstory. Last year, Christopher agreed to take a ballroom dance class with me. So I found a class that started in January and went for 9 weeks, one hour a week, on Wednesday nights. Because of my work schedule (I’m usually in meetings …

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The Secret to Happiness

Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Christine.
Categories: True Story.

What is your answer to this question…?

Which person do you think is happier– a person who has won the lottery one year after he/she won, OR a person who has become a paraplegic one year after he/she lost the use of his/her legs?

It seems sort of obvious to most that if, given that choice themselves, they’d choose the first believing that winning the lottery would make them happier than being wheelchair bound. In an actual study of both groups of people, they actually all reported the same level of happiness in their life.

I recently watched a 20-minute presentation by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert on www.ted.com (Technology, Entertainment, Design– which is an annual conference where intelligent, innovative …

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The Making of the Bread

Posted on January 5th, 2008 by Christine.
Categories: True Story.

Let me start by saying I’ve been in kind of a weird funk lately. I always get sort of depressed after the holidays and cold, gray weather affects me very negatively. So that’s what poor Christopher has been dealing with the past couple of weeks. I decided after being a grouch to be around, I wanted to do something for him to show him how much I appreciate him, so I decided to give him a few really good blow jobs and make this bread that he’s been asking me to make for seriously over a year.

It’s not like I’ve been blowing off making bread because I don’t give a shit about what he wants. The …

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