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one year in an essay which also explains what's going on in my pants

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Life was getting too easy.  Things were getting almost complacent. With Annabelle starting kindergarten soon, we stepped back to think about where we want to be for the next several years.  Not sure how many years, but from at least Kindergarten -through- as long as she makes it before robots take over  the public education system.   Anyways, we decided we want more skiing in our lives and we should move to Winthrop, WA. Houses are expensive, even fixer-uppers, you can pay over 1/2 million dollars for a turd of a house.  With our waning enthusiasm for polishing all the turds in our lives, we decided to just take a stab at building our own house. This could also be one of those weird things people do when they hit 40, but instead of learning how to play the saxophone or buying a fast red car which seem pretty easy things from this perspective we are going to do the build your own house thing. Since Brandon has learned to think in his sleep we will probably b...