Posted in Random Meanderings, This Old House on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not since I got my new vacuum almost two years ago have I been so excited. A trip to Paris? A winning lottery ticket? Free house cleaning for a year?
Nope, nope and nope…but it’s still exciting. Well, at least to me it is.
A new, smaller and more efficient, FRIDGE!
I know, my housewife is showing. [...]
Posted in Random Meanderings, This Old House on October 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been pining for over a year to repaint the front of the house…well, at least parts of it.
Where once we didn’t have the time, then we didn’t have the money and now the weather is not cooperating…okay, it’s not exactly the weather but the forecasts that are out of touch.
The rain they predicted for [...]
Posted in Marriage, This Old House on July 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
After being encouraged by Hubby’s recent lay off and severance package…
Turns out 2 months pay doesn’t go as far as one would hope. We still could not afford to fix up the house, live and be ready to sell before Hubby had to commit to another job.
Good news is that we won’t be paying any [...]
Posted in Marriage, Random Meanderings, This Old House on June 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In the 11 years that we’ve owned this house, it’s always been the kids or Hubby who were first to swim in the pool at the beginning of the season.
This year it was me.
Hat and all, I dove into the pool.
And I LOVED every minute of it while taunting Hubby with chants of “C’mon, you [...]
Posted in Marriage, This Old House on May 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Despite our united front to get the necessary crap done to get the house ready to sell, Hubby and I are still at odds about what to do afterward.
We’re not yelling at each other anymore but we aren’t really talking about it either. I think I prefer the former…at least we were communicating.
On top of [...]
Posted in Marriage, This Old House on May 24, 2009 | 9 Comments »
While we had a lovely weekend at the cabin…
and Hubby had fun with the camera…
…that’s my butt and the pants say PRINCESS…
The reality of our situation hit us pretty hard this afternoon.
The truth is, Hubby could easily go out and get another IT job and we could just keep on going the way we have [...]
Posted in Marriage, Random Meanderings, This Old House on May 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Hubby got laid off this morning. The company he works for has been downsizing for a couple months now but so far there had been no talk of Hubby’s position being at risk.
No talk maybe, but apparently some closed door planning. Anyway, the following phone conversation demonstrates how very nonchalant we both are about it.
Hubby: [...]
Posted in This Old House on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been waiting two weeks for the papers to come from the accountant (sounds fancy but really he’s an old friend of Hubby’s who kindly does our taxes for free) with bated breath.
Even if we only received half the refund we got last year, it would have been enough to pay off some immediate debt [...]
Posted in Books, Random Meanderings, This Old House on April 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
We had a full Easter weekend with two family dinners back to back…yummy but exhausting. We did manage to get the majority of the housework done on Friday so today has been a slow moving, puttering kind of day.
Hubby and I finally got around to going over our finances and as we both suspected, we [...]
Posted in Marriage, Random Meanderings, This Old House on March 13, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Some of you may remember that back in August, Hubby and I decided to take a “grown up time out” and sell the house this Spring.
I haven’t followed up on that because we’ve gone back and forth on it so many times in the last six months that I’m just not sure where we’ve stood [...]
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