We're moving in to our new house (horray!) and inevitably, home repair needs arise. Today as I walked into Lowes with a rusted out washing machine hose in hand, the appliances guy looked at me as though to say "How cute. Another husband gave his clueless wife a random part and sent her to the hardware store to ask for help replacing it. Don't ( Read more... )

Okay, it's only 13 more days left until I get a new instillment of my grocery budget.  Last month I cheated a little bit and got out money a little early for a few "emergencies".  Well, one trip to wal-mart and a few random "errands" later and I had blown half of the month's grocery money before the first.  So, as a result, we have $17.60 left for ( Read more... )

I have a goal in life:  to be one of those people who can say the right thing at the right time.  I am not currently one of those people ( Read more... )

We FINALLY got around to watching Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog this weekend.  Hilarious, and it gets more fun the more you replay the songs. However, I must admit, the ending was rather unsatisfying.  Eh, you can't win em' all. 

my wrist and forearm have been really aching the last couple of days....likely tendonitis.  Therefore, is the back and forth pressing motion of the elipticals going to aggrivate it further?  Or am I just plain lazy?  It seems to me like the most diplomatic solution is procrastination.  To the gym with me tommorow!

John and I were perusing movies we wanted to watch, but we try to check the Parent Review website first, just to get a good idea of what we're signing ourselves up for...  We were checking out Grand Torino...the nudity isn't too bad and violence doesn't bother me as much, but what I was really struck with was the language rating...

PROFANITY 10 -
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I'm inspired by this young fellow...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&NR=1

Anybody wanna hop a plane to Iceland with me?

So it turns out the economy is in this thing called a "recession"...apparently sometimes during these phenomena there are things called "layoffs"...  Anyway, apparently we are not immune.  No reason to hit the panic button quite yet, but there were definite threats of lay offs in John's department...and due to the experience-based ranking system, ( Read more... )

I just had a dream where the soundtrack was written by Hans Zimmer...I woke up genuenliy wanting to be an out of work wandering farm worker finding work on the beautiful potato farm that must have been next door to the farm in Gladiator.  Apparently they were paying me to run thorough the potato feld to beautiful music frolicking and feeling oh so ( Read more... )

So, the evil horrible job is done.  Only working one part time job is proving to be a wonderful stress relief.  However, I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my new-found free time.   A hobby would be fun.  Especially for nights like tonight, when my dear husband is stuck at work until 8ish... My current hobbies include ( Read more... )