Good Riddance, August!
I’ll be tremendously happy for August to be over. It has been one expensive month. My TV and DVR broke due to the weather (see post below), I lost the special Tiffany ring that man-friend gave me (the good-luck one that he took to his bar exam), and to top it all off, some jerk [...]
Goals Check-In
It’s mid-August and I’ve been feeling a little antsy about my finances since man-friend still doesn’t have a lawyerly job (he’s doing part-time research for a professor while he job hunts), so I thought perhaps a goals check-in would make me feel better and give me a truer picture of whether I really need to [...]
I bought a new TV
The number and intensity of dark and stormy nights in Chicago this summer has been ferociously increasing in 2011. I usually love a good storm, but this year has left us a bit shell-shocked between February’s milestone blizzard and the summer’s downed trees, flooded basements, and power outages. One casualty of this summer’s storms was [...]
Catching up: New nephew edition!
How has it been nearly a month since my last post?! (So long that I needed two different kinds of punctuation on that last sentence!) I don’t know where the time goes. Except, I kind of do, and I think you’ll agree that this one was well worth the work stoppage. Introducing, my new — [...]
