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Our furnace was cleaned as part of buying this house so today was the first time we’ve ever had anyone out to look at it. We learned we are the proud owners of a builder grade furnace. Oh joy. Its doing just fine but now that I know its a piece of junk I’ll cross […]

Over at Nixguy, KP is talking about shopping at Target vs. Walmart. I was in both stores today and if shopping at Target makes me an elitist, so be it. They’ve got it together. The only thing Walmart has going for it is lower prices. I will admit to really liking Super Walmart but […]

Some have asked where I’ve been in the past year with my job so I made a map. Green flags are meetings and training, blue is vacations and Red is work. As you can see nothing very exciting or glamorous. Albany, NY and Lincoln, Nebraska are places you can die without seeing, […]

Are you a white or multicolored light person? Lileks discusses the differences in today’s column. Personally I’m a white light person. I think it looks classier.
I’ll get some pictures of our Christmas decor up later in the week. We’ve never decorated as much as we’re doing this year. I’ve always wanted to fancy up […]

Just back from Weight Watchers and was pleased to learn I lost .8 this week. I’m not sure how I managed to lose but I’m not complaining. The cookiemonga (ice cream, cookies, hot fudge sauce, whipped cream-it was heavenly!) I ate at La Senorita’s apparently had zero calories. Yeah that’s it. Zero calories for […]

A couple weeks ago I bought Tapestry of Grace Year 4 off the swap boards on the Tapestry forum. The seller said she had used the curriculum two weeks and decided they didn’t like it. Units 2-4 were still in the shrink wrap. She was willing to sell it for $50 less than list price. […]

We set a budget on Christmas spending for each child. I placed an order with Amazon about a month ago and was quite pleased with myself. First that I got the bulk of my shopping done well before Thanksgiving and also that I stayed within my budget.
Today I went to Target to get things […]

We put up the Christmas tree tonight. We’ll do outside decorating tomorrow and a few more things inside too.

We’re back from our Thanksgiving trip to Michigan. On our way up we stopped to see baby Jack. He’s such a cutie! We hope he’ll be ready to travel by Christmas. We then headed on north to Papa and DeeDee’s house.
On Wednesday afternoon, I took the kids out to visit with Grandma and Grandpa […]

The packet for my oatmeal this morning had conventional and microwave directions.
The microwave is been around for 30 years now, you would think the microwave would be the conventional directions. who uses the stovetop anymore?