I just realized that, by the end of this semester, I will have taught 20 classes this academic year, which include the Summer. 4 in the Summer, 8 in the Fall, and 8 in the Spring. Wowee! Yeah, the $80K is useful for paying off our credit card debt, but Wowee!

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I was taking our daughter to the dentist today and saw something in the road that cars ahead of me were swerving to avoid. I kid you not, there were about 20 cans of SPAM in the road. I ran over a few just because.

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Off to Atlanta this weekend to my best friends' house. Taking the big puppy with us. Should be fun to see how Scholar reacts to Bingo -- their old dalmation. Scholar's actually a little bigger than she is at the moment. lol. At least Scholar will be able to hold her own if there's any friction.

See you all Monday!

Yea! We purchased a Mercury Sable Luxury Sedan (LS) today! The MSRP for a 2005 model with all the available options was $27K. This car is a 2005, has all of the available options, but was a rental car for a few thousand miles. I negotiated the price down to $17,400 from the $19K they had advertised . I'm so proud of myself. I think I got lucky ( Read more... )

So we haven't exactly stopped enjoying the lifestyle, but we have stopped from meeting new couples. It's a fair compromise.

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