I probably shouldn't spend the money, but I finally signed up for the Menu Mailer at SavingDinner.com, which I've been meaning to do for quite a while. Every time I've mentioned it before, runsamuck poo-poos it because he doesn't use recipes, and apparently he can just memorize a shopping list for the week and get everything needed (except he doesn't). He ( Read more... )

Wow, a 40% price increase between months for your 300min beyond talk?! Thanks a lot Virgin Mobile, at least Netflix sent me a warning first before they asked me to bend over. It's now only $5 less than the 1200 min one (used to be), which I only used 130 minutes of last month, so I thought I'd try save few bucks this month. No love. You're still ( Read more... )

Wow, I just realized I only need about 448 points to get another $25 in gift cards (for a total of $75) at Gather.com. I've gotten over 1000 points in the last few months for only putting up a few things. I should really start posting more pictures and photo essays over there. People seem to look at those more than anything else. Does anyone else ( Read more... )

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So, midsummertime. Angus's last day of summer school was yesterday, to his great relief. "Who invented summer school, to torture kids!" he said the day after regular school got out, and shook his first. The days of taking summer school for fun things is gone forever, I guess. His report card came back as everything "progressing towards goals." ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was our 13th anniversary. Given the year we've been having, that's probably appropriate. Anyhow, it was pretty low key, given that we are broke until payday. The last thing I bought was my bus pass and while I was at the grocery store getting it, my gaze fell upon these silly little figures with a tillandsia glued on the side in the ( Read more... )

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Hmmm, according to my calculations, we should have the Trooper paid off by November. Yay ( Read more... )