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Countdown to 10! Mrs Enginerd Weddings

The Days Leading Up to The Wedding

This year marks the 10th anniversary of my wedding to W. As part of the celebration, I will be documenting our relationship from the proposal up to the wedding, and each year up to our 10th anniversary. Safely in Puerto Rico after Saying Yes to the Dress Again and with enough time to get the marriage […]

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Selling vs. Renting Out a Property

When we got the second home to “rent it out” to my sister, we used all of our short-term investment money for the downpayment. Our goal was to invest it this way to turn in returns faster than traditional stock yields allowed. By pure serendipity, the housing market started to soar and two and a […]

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Mrs Enginerd Travel

Dear Delta: Unaccompanied Minor Edition

A few hours before I was Comic Con bound,my nephew departed after a six week stay with us in the PNW. After some drama at the Delta counter, we were able to send him back home although he was really rooting for another screw up to stay longer… Well he almost got stuck at JFK […]

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Mrs Enginerd TV Shows and Movies

16 Reasons 2016 Sucked And The 1 Reason It Didn’t 

2016 was a Jabba the Hutt year; it wasn’t pretty, took more than it gave, and crushed whatever hopes we had to break with its chains. The year was so bad that not even Fidel Castro survived it, and there’s over 600 assassination attemps listed under his name. As a community we were taught a […]