Month: August 2011
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Staycation Indeed
So we took this week off, The Lovely Rhonda and I. We were so looking forward to Vegas or Disneyland or something. Except then we bought a new (used) minivan. So we were so looking forward to some day trips. Except then we ended up with kids today and Friday. So we were so looking…
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Creeeeeak
So we took the children to the fair on Thursday. It was fun, although Nagging Unromantic Chronic Digestive Complaint made me pretty uncomfortable all day. But it was fun, and we walked a lot. Like, for hours. I have these terrible non-load-bearing feet, so walking a lot, like for hours, is not as much fun…
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Stickin’ it to The Man
So I had these two high-interest rate credit cards. They were leftover from a time when I was a) young, b) poor, and c) desperate. I had not used either of them in years and we’d been paying them down faithfully but they had swollen to the point that it was impossible to get ahead. …
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EW! — updated with photo —
So the bathtub drain has been kinda slow lately. Typically it drained well in the past; you flipped the thinger “down” and the water would all disappear in a reasonably good time frame. We had no complaints and ours was a relationship based on mutual respect and good feelings all around. But lately the drain…
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