I took her through every room of the house, stopping before familiar walls.
There is still a lot to like about a team boasting the league's most prolific offense (for both yards and points scored), but certainly there is pressure on Atlanta to win this week and stop familiar doubts from creeping back in.
On Sunday, they will join the holdover linemen, Dave Diehl and Chris Snee, in trying to stop a familiar face: Barry Cofield, who was a mainstay on the Giants' defensive line before he signed with Washington in the off-season.
That hasn't stopped a familiar group of politicians from cynically trying to use this incident as yet another excuse to weaken the rule of law and this country's barely recovering reputation.
That is to say that its approach to office life, like that of so much television comedy, stops at familiar, which is at least one floor below truly funny.
For example, if you had a difficult breakup, you might need to stop visiting familiar restaurants that remind you of your ex.
All day, she has been the soul of down-to-earth grace, hugs for even the faintly familiar, stopping at every park bench and cafeteria table in the senior centers.
We drove around for a couple of hours, frequently stopping at rattlesnake loci familiar to him for a lifetime.
Other familiar faces stopping by include "Parenthood's" Dax Shepard, "Justified" star Timothy Olyphant, Ed Helms, Zac Efron, Melissa McCarthy and Steve Carell, just to name a few.
In a clash of cultural icons, the Beatles' record company, Apple Corps, wants Apple Computer to stop using its familiar logo, in the shape of an apple with a bite out of it, on the iTunes Music Store.
