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I forgot to mention in my previous post that our current frenetic landlord was really the person who got us an apartment in Montréal. There were a dozen people lined up to view it during the two days that we were there, but his recommendation to our future apartment manager cinched the deal: "I have a number of people lined up to see this apartment..." the apartment manager began. "Well, why would you need to do that?" bellowed our landlord. "They just don't get any better than Peter and Katie!"

Our landlord's also been intermittently promising us our wedding present for the past, oh, year and a half since our wedding. I haven't been holding my breath, as 1) he's in India, Panama, Italy, or some other random part of the globe for months at a time, 2) he works, publishes furiously, landlords, and teaches at two UW campuses simultaneously, and 3) his own tastes, as is evidenced by the art in our hallways and yard, runs towards the folksy (think of the paint-by-numbers Last Supper that's framed and above the bench in our front hall). So I was genuinely surprised when he showed up last night with a large piece of paper-wrapped something in tow. "It's your wedding present!" he exclaimed. "You've got to open it once Peter gets back!"

So, fast-forward to 7:45 am this morning, and our discovery that we now own a thick slab of black-painted, wall-mountable, two-and-a-half foot tall plywood, printed with a photo of... us. Yup, our landlord managed to take a wedding photo that he snapped that morning, and somehow transfer it in paint -- I don't know how, because there isn't any transfer paper or anything in evidence -- directly to a piece of wood, and cut it around the borders. It is the closest to owning an heirloom-quality cardboard cut-out of myself that I will ever get. It is a piece that transcends the boundaries of egotistical, and enters purely into the awesome.

please please PLEASE tell me there is a photo of this unique wedding present going up on your site soon. PLEASE!! I am just dying to see it, as are all of your other readers (I am positive they want to see this!)

I will! I'm buying myself a new camera for my birthday, and I'm psyched. Expect lots of photos of random stuff, and my backlog of crafts photos to slowly be broken down.

Dude, pictures!

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