I never had the typical high school first job. While my brother and many of my friends either worked fast food or retail, I did not. My first job was doing telephone surveys. I went from there to working in the financial aid office at the University. After that, I did do a one year stint at a local video rental store (remember those) which ended badly, and then, after a few months of unemployment foundread more…
In You Are Not Alone, I wrote about the circumstances that led to me joining the Women In Red message boards in 2009. This was a community started based on a series of articles written by MP Dunleavey for MSN Money. While MP is no longer with MSN or the community, and the community isn’t hosted on MSN anymore, it is still going strong. Sunday will mark my 3 year anniversary of having been a memberread more…
Today is Election Day in the United States, where I, and most of my readers, live. Because this will post around the time that most East Coast polls are closing, I have to imagine that if you are actually reading this today, you are looking for a break from election coverage, and that if you are reading this on Wednesday, you are happy to be done with election coverage. With that in mind, I thought itread more…
Things are crazy here at work, in a reorganizational sense. Layoff notices went out last week, not to a lot of people, but enough, and across all levels of staff. (I laid off an admin. My executive director was also laid off.) While I’ve learned enough to know that I’ll still have a job come January, that’s only because the next round of layoffs won’t come until then. I’m still giving myself a 50/50 chance ofread more…
Ever since we bought this house, 6.5 years ago, C and I have wanted to replace our refrigerator. It is small and not fabulous. But every time we looked at replacing it, we would realize that we could only replace it with another refrigerator exactly like it because of the height issue. The over the fridge cabinets come down far enough that there is only one model of refrigerator that will fit in that space. Ifread more…
Leaving a Long Term Relationship When we bought our first house, we got absolutely no reception at our new home on our AT&T cell phones. So, we switched to Sprint, which did have coverage in our house. We have been with Sprint ever since- so, 8 or 9 years with the same cell phone company, and the majority of that time on the exact same plan. In fact, we didn’t change our plan until we addedread more…
I am a flaming feminist. That will come out clearly in this post. If that bothers you, you should probably stop reading now. Thing 1 This weekend, we babysat 3.5 year old P for about 25 hours. We had a great time with her, but something happened that bothered me a little bit. I had just put her in her car seat to take her to the park. It was just she and I, butread more…
Lots of the younger bloggers I read are getting engaged, talking about marriage with their partners, etc. Since today is my 9th wedding anniversary, I want to give them the best marriage advice I know. It’s really the simplest thing in the world. Get married on a holiday weekend. I know this may seem anti-intuitive to many people- who wants to share their big day with something else? But the truth is, your day is alwaysread more…
I decided quite some time ago that weddings are all about the dress, and honestly, for various reasons, I wasn’t quite happy with my wedding dress. So I planned an excuse for a new dress. I see no need for C and I to renew our vows, but I thought it would be nice if, for our tenth wedding anniversary, we took a set of anniversary photos. (Our tenth anniversary is over a year away, soread more…
