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We love to celebrate life with all that we have. Whether it be the simplest of celebrations over the victory of my poorly pathetic hockey team, or a free weekend with no obligations, or the monumental occurrence of actually finishing grad school-it’s just in our blood to celebrate life.

With that said, a few days ago we found a fabulous reason to celebrate.

And that would be comment numero 100 on this here blog.

So we decided to throw a little online party (if there is such a thing). Not because we are running some little lame blog competition, but simply because we needed a reason to give away a sweet pair of STUNNER SHADES and box of OTTER POPS!

So with no further adue…. (drum roll please) the 100th commenter on this here blog was…..

KJ Swanson out of good ol’ Seattle.

To quote her comment exactly: “you had me at gleaming…”

So there you have it KJ. You’ve just won yourself a box of otter pops and stunner shades. We hope you are even half as thrilled to be winning such a prize as we are to be giving it.

For the rest of you out there…. go find a reason as stupid as ours and celebrate it with all that you have. Even if it is that you new husband actually remembered to take out the trash. We know that is a huge victory in our home.

Life is too short to not celebrate it. All of it.

Party on friends.

If you are a music fan in the slightest bit, this short documentary will most definitely move you. The short tale is that of the owner of the largest vinyl collection in the world and the bleak future that lies before him.

If you have a few minutes, definitely check it out… it’s brilliant.

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

For all our loyal followers, (hi Mom!) we are going to be live blogging our lil trip to the game tonight. (side note… We can’t post text in between photos from the iPhone, so to get to all the pics just keep on scrollin’.)

Step one… Waiting for the good ol’ Seattle Metro bus. And while waiting critical mass rode on by. Sweet. I haven’t seen traffic backed up that in a long time.

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Wow. So that didn’t work out like we had planned. For some reason the lovely little iPhone died decided at half time to stop being able to upload photos. What a lame blog post this turned out to be. At least we had a good evening at the game, thanks to our friends Brian+Deann who hooked us up with their tickets.

We are migrating our email over to a new host tonight. So if you happen to send us an email in the next day and it bounces back to you, have no fear! Just wait a bit and hit the send button one more time!

Im guessing we won’t be down more than a few minutes, but I thought I’d throw up a little note just in case the internet got a case of the Microsoft bug or anything…

Oh… and I’ll be up late posting a wedding tonight. Hold on to your hats. Or beret. Or whatever other type of headgear you might be wearing. Ahhh…. Nevermind. Its too stinkin’ late. Catch all the love on here tomorrow!

Adios!

UPDATE…. all set! Smooth as butta!