On Thursday, I am getting a new furnace for my house. It is going to cost a lot of money. Thankfully not as much money as it could, because I know someone who is linked to a construction company and therefore has connections - connections I am VERY thankful for. But still. Who has that kind of money lying around? Surely not me ( Read more... )

Tukey's first birthday party is tomorrow. I have been cleaning like a MoFo all day. Punk has been at a friend's house for most of the day (since about 11am) and I will be returning the favor by watching that friend this evening. Well, Jen will. Because I have to brave the mall. I want to pick up our Holiday Photo Cards and check out a couple of ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of money changing hands around here these days. Thank you, tax return ( Read more... )

I am getting a new computer for the first time in many many years. It will be shipping soon. So exciting! I got an iPod Touch for Christmas and haven't been able to put any music on it because my old iBook can't run a new enough version of iTunes to sync up. Whoops. So it was time ( Read more... )

I am on a cleaning rampage. My brother and SIL arrive tomorrow evening and Punk and I will be gone all day tomorrow babysitting a friend's baby. And tomorrow is Punk's birthday, aieeeeee! I need to bake something! I need to wrap presents! Aieeeeeeeee ( Read more... )

I love the increase in daylight but I don't love that my body has been waking me up at 5:30 every morning. It is just not right. Still, it is nice to wake up on my own instead of the alarm clock (or the mini alarm clock on legs) doing that for me. But yeah, I'd love to sleep until 7, okay? Yawn. Punk also tried to wake up at 5:40, but I went and ( Read more... )

This has been a very busy weekend in a string of very busy weekends. But instead of having house guests (like we have for the last three weekends), we did a lot of driving around bugging other people ( Read more... )

I have a Citibank card that has been accumulating points in the "Thank You Network" for several years now. The "Thank You Network" is a rewards program that lets you trade points for all kinds of stuff like gift cards, travel (you need a LOT of points for that), electronics, all kinds of stuff. I had stopped using that card because they raised the ( Read more... )

On Saturday a couple of my neighbors around the corner were having yard sales, so I figured I would walk over and scope them out in case they had any good kid stuff. I scored a Little Tikes turtle sandbox in good condition for... get this... 50 cents! 50 freaking cents! Of course I snatched it up and the guy even offered to walk it to my house for ( Read more... )

Between the stuff I got at Savers last year, some gifts from Punk's first birthday (sized up), the stuff I got at Savers this year, the stuff I got at Once Upon a Child last month, the stuff I got from one of my clients (her 4 year old's hand-me-downs), Punk's Hanukkah present from Emily, the dress that Nana sent last month, the hand-me-down ( Read more... )