December 2008
6 posts
Christmas Eve in a 500 sq ft studio
The words of my great grandmother ring in my ears: “You can live in the largest mansion in the world, but if there’s no love, it will never be big enough. But if you have love, you can be happy anywhere.” 500 Sq feet is hardly enough room to contain all the love we have on our first Christmas together, but it’s enough room for us to share some tea, munch on a box of...
Dec 25th
Addicted to Snow
Well, I ended up with a minor head cold, but after tons of herbal tea and vegetables, I recovered fairly quickly. Now, I’m having serious snow withdrawals! Alan, being from New York state, is having snow withdrawals just the same. I don’t have the excuse of being acclimated to the snow since birth, but I have spent a good deal of my time in the San Bernardino Mountains for the last...
Dec 24th
Saturday Night Fever
I’m pretty sure I’m getting sick. Shit. On to better things: Today was a good day. Early in the day, we went to the post office to pick up materials for shipping. Then, we went to target and bought various items to help us finish our Christmas gifting. We finished our shopping online, and bought some materials for wrapping and such. We also bought some food and home items that we were...
Dec 14th
The Biggest Losers
Alan and I have been on a “diet” for about a week now. Before I go on, I want to mention something very important (and healthy): I love my husband for being loving and supportive, never once having ever told me I need to lose weight, and always telling me I’m the most beautiful woman alive, because he really believes it. (I just don’t necessarily personally agree, but...
Dec 10th
“Creating a feasible budget depends so much on decreasing the amount of fun you...”
– No kidding.
Dec 9th
5 tags
Budget Woes & "The Light" -by the wife
Who doesn’t have debt these days? The premartial therapist largely warned us against credit card debt (albeit the fact that I mentioned I had a bunch of it.) Grrr. IknowIknowIknow. Credit card debt is badbadbadbad. But I still have it. It’s nice that FICO has restructured it’s rating system as of late. My credit score has boosted from 670 or so to a whopping 690. But, alas, it’s a number....
Dec 4th