One of the problems with having a relative who has a birthday very near Christmas is having to give good gifts for both birthday and Christmas with no time in between. When someone’s birthday is 4 months before or after Christmas, there’s time for people to want new things, or there are seasonal issues, but with a birthday and Christmas right next to each other, you have to give enough gifts for each from the sameread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $4.00 safeway groceries Tuesday $8.00 lunch allowance $140.25 christmas shopping allowance Wednesday $19.37 CostCo groceries $6.50 parking car $19.50 tax & tip eating out Thursday $55.00 christmas gifts allowance Friday $77.00 saffron eating out Saturday $39.25 christmas gifts allowance $16.25 trading post groceries $8.00 trader joes groceries $23.75 CostCo groceries Sunday $39.50 safeway groceries It was a busy week. Besides shopping for Christmas at home, I had the Christmas party atread more…
I’ll be honest- I kind of put off putting this round up together on the hopes that the world would end, and I wouldn’t need to do the work. Plus, Friday was my birthday, and I had more important things to think about (Indian food and chai, OMG the chai) than other people’s blogs. Well, maybe not more important, but certainly more delicious. But now, it’s late Friday night when I’m putting this together, because myread more…
Holiday party planning has been part of my job for years. We moved to Seattle Labor Day weekend 2001. I started my first job in the area on October 1. The two biggest projects I worked on in my first few months at that job- the company Oktoberfest party (one of the founders was German) and then the company Christmas party (which was the most amazing potluck ever). I left that company right after the Oktoberfestread more…
I am so excited to make today’s post. I have actually had to stop myself from writing it for over a week now. Because I did not want to write it until what I was saying was actually true. We have paid off my graduate student loans! We will start 2013 with $17k less debt. In fact, our non-mortgage debt will now only be my undergraduate student loans, which are less than $15k and at aread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $9.00 dominoes allowance Wednesday $6.00 parking car Thursday $56.25 CostCo groceries $21.75 Trader Joes groceries $50.25 Fred Meyer groceries Friday $8.00 Safeway groceries Saturday $10.75 Movie allowance Sunday $40.00 Gas car Wednesday, we went and saw the King Tut exhibit. Our Living Social deal for it had been expensive, but for some reason, I hadn’t thought that much about it. Well, the reason it was so expensive was that it cameread more…
It’s Saturday! And at the time this goes live, I will be in a theater watching The Hobbit (non-3D version, as it gives C migraines). More importantly, I will have seen the 9 minute preview for Star Trek: Into Darkness. C and I are both geeks, and our geekiness overlaps quite a bit, but in this case, we’re a little different. He is super excited about The Hobbit and will enjoy the new Star Trek. Iread more…
For those of you who may (or may not) have been jonesing for an update on the adoption process, this post is kind of for you. For quite some time, we were waiting on an additional background check from the state of Nevada, because the roommate had an arrest record there. (We knew about this- J and C were friends at the time it happened.) It turns out one of the reasons we were waiting soread more…
The last day of November was the last day my admin had a job. This was my first time laying off an employee and it wasn’t fun or easy. And now, I’m a manager with no one to manage. Actually, that doesn’t bother me as the work we were doing didn’t really need two people to do it, and I’m perfectly fine taking on the work she was doing for me. But now that I’m noread more…
Day Amount Place Category Wednesday $49.25 Old Spaghetti Factory Eating Out Thursday $142.75 Condo Water Heater Rental $104.00 CostCo Groceries Friday $83.25 Flogging Molly Allowance Sunday $45.75 Safeway Groceries It has not been an exciting week, and that’s fine with me. At work, we’re all adapting to our new world and just moving along. At home, we’re enjoying some quiet time before my birthday/the end of the world and Christmas. We don’t really do Christmas gifts,read more…
