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Don't know how you got here, but if you want to view anymore of our blog, we're now at www.condofire.com thanks, Dave and Tessa

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Tessa: Today the US Study Group report was released I think it's interesting that an elite panel comprised of Republican former Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton of Indiana has unanimously decided that the United States has to withdraw from its role in Iraq to a support position. Although no immediate plans for withdrawal have been outlined its clear that the

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Tessa: My niece Taya, who is six, spelled the word intestine. I think that's brilliant.

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Tessa: Sometimes I ask Dave what he loves about me. And because he is who he is, he almost always replies even though he's a bit tired of the whole thing. First he sighs and then with a look of deep weariness he goes down the list of my lovable attributes. He's a good guy. Other times, just to shake things up, I ask him what irritates him about me. And because he is also a wise man, he never

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Tessa: Secrets. Every single one of us has one. Whether we like it or not it occupies asmall place inside of us that keeps us alone and separated from the world as though afilm exists between you and those closest to you. It's what makes us unknowable. KimEdwards in her debut novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter explores how a secretinsidiously weaves its way through the heart of a young family and

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Tessa: This morning when I left for work it was snowing and icy on the roads. All weekend it has been snowing in Vancouver. Big, heavy, fat snowflakes that look like diamonds have blanketed the city. Yesterday we took Reuben and went walking in the woods behind our house. If you paused a moment you could hear the trees creeking under the weight of the snow. When we entered the path that takes us

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Tessa: I recently finished reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. Both of these books are coincidentally New York Times Bestseller's and both of them are tearjerkers. So if you're looking to give gifts this Christmas that are guarenteed to reduce friends and family members to tears then be sure to pick up a copy of either of these two and that

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Dave: I've realized over the past two weeks of rain, wind and cold; that the nicest people you'll meet are the people you meet walking out in this kind of weather. Most will be walking a dog, but not all. They'll all peek out through layers of clothes to smile and say hello. So if you want to meet some really nice people, go for a walk in the rain... but don't complain, because no one else is.

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Tessa: I'm not sure what happened to our date nights but they are definitely changing from Dave and I staring wildly, passionately and intently into each other's eyes to each of us staring with all of the above adverbs into our dog Reuben's eyes to staring eight hours straight into the eyes of YouTube. But what the hell, this is how we found these videos so if you're in need of a laugh go

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Dave: Okay, so Tessa thinks I'm more interested in Photoshop than her. I can tell by all the glares, cupboards banging and the familiar loud groaning from the other room. The thing is is that I've discovered photoshop, and love it. I can't drag my sorry ass away from it. I've spent roughly eight hours going over the 250 photos I took of our friends wedding. Now I want to buy a scanner and printer

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Tessa: This last Sunday was a lovely quiet day after our Saturday night dinner party bomb when our friend hijacked our cedar plank salmon and conversation with the 46 inch HDTV with 900 channels at full volume. Okay, the Ali G. marathon session was highly entertaining but nevertheless Sunday was a welcome reprieve. I was happy to have a nice quiet day and read on the couch while Dave photo

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Dave: Tessa and I had a small gathering of friends the other night. Just five of us getting together for food and drinks. I was really looking forward to it because we always have some great conversations and laughs. We decided to watch the hockey game while waiting for the group to arrive. Then a strange thing happened. When our first guest arrived our effort to turn the TV off was disputed. She

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Tessa: About 3 years ago I quit my job in publishing. I had worked at this company for about 10 years and had hit middle management hell. I had a job, an expense account, travelled alot, a group of people who reported to me and work that was fairly interesting. Why was it then that I had chronic back pain, bags under my eyes, head pain, drank like a maniac, was dating a loser, was constantly

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Tessa: I recently finished reading Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky on the recommendation of a friend who had called the book one of the most 'humane stories' she had ever read. I enjoy reading war stories (my favourite book is The Things They Carried and so looked forward to this one which takes place in France in 1941 when the Germans occupied Paris. I was initially surprised at my friend's

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Dave: Tessa and I decided about a year ago that we wanted to do something creative together, two brains into one idea. We set out and bought a gallon of bright yellow paint, a gallon of bright orange paint and a gallon of vodka... and at around four in the morning we had our first finished project: our bedroom had two bright yellow walls and two bright orange walls, not to mention a lot of mixed

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Tessa: Well, well, well. Who would have guessed it. Wayne Rooney and I are on the same team and its not Manchester United! ? It's called Sleep Neurosis. A friend of mine sent me a link to an article in The Guardian where Rooney talked about his sleep habits in a new autobiography entitled, My Story So Far. It turns out that Rooney can't get to sleep without a vacuum cleaner on or baring that a

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Tessa: Hello. My name is Tessa and I am a sissy. Sometimes you know something about yourself and you deny it. Sometimes you just don't know. In this case I really know. One of my favourite sporting activities is chasing Dave around the house, wrestling him to the ground, pinning his arms above his head and yelling, "You will pay. You will pay." He looks at me bemused, maybe a little frightened

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Tessa: I usually buy books through one of three methods; a book review, a recommendation from a friend who has reasonable book taste or by browsing in the bookstore and reading one or two pages from random books.I recently picked up Jonathan Saffran Foer's Jonathan Saffran Foer's recently published book Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close on the recommendation of a friend. I read the book quickly

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Tessa: On September 12th speedskating started up again. This is the time of year when I get up every Tuesday morning at 6:00 am, I haul my sorry ass to an ice rink where I wear a too tight licra full body leotard which Dave likes to wear and run around in more than I do, then I put on a bunch of gear and some skates and then I get tortured by coach Ariana who for the next hour will scream things

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Tessa: Condofire is a blog about how we escape danger each and every day of our lives. This is no lie. Today I thank god that we didn't burn our house down. Or inadvertently off our dog, lose our cats or our minds. Today we're alive and talking about, tattooes and how to get rid of them, speedskating , boarding, the crazy American government, books, the crazy Canadian government, how Europeans

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