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U-Verse
A few months ago, I received a weird letter in the mail from my neighborhood association:
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My new car
The lease on my Mercedes C300 came to an end in June, so I had to get a new car. I was planning to get something different, because that’s part of the fun of getting a new car. I had an Audi A4 before the Mercedes, so I figured this time I might go with a BMW just to round out the big three German manufacturers ( Read more... ) -
No offense
When I moved, there were two houses on the market that I really liked. House #1 was priced $30k higher than house #2. It had an amazing kitchen and is really close to where I work, but I wasn’t willing to pay $30k more for those features. Still, I liked it better than house #2, so I decided to make an offer. It had been on the market for over a ( Read more... ) -
Round 2
At the time I started my new job, I had found two houses in the area that I really liked. I had a hard time deciding between them, but I eventually decided to make an offer on house #1 (the one that’s really close to work and has an awesome kitchen). I made a lowball offer of $25k less than the asking price. The sellers made a counter-offer of $ ( Read more... ) -
My new house
Moving sucks. Everything about it is a pain in the ass. The only fun part of moving is shopping for a new house. I hate shopping in general, but house hunting is the one exception to that. When I visited the area before I accepted the job, I looked at several houses, and two of them really stood out to me. The downside to house hunting is that ( Read more... ) -
My puppy
I just found out that Argus passed away last week, on January 20 (in case anyone doesn’t believe that it’s an unlucky day). My parents didn’t tell anyone until now because they didn’t want to spoil my brother and sister’s birthday, January 21, which was also the 17th anniversary of the day we brought Argus home. He was just a tiny puppy, and so ( Read more... ) -
Vacation
I’m on vacation this week. I like to save my vacation for the end of the year, and so far, I’ve used only one day of vacation in 2012. That day was a couple of weeks ago, and I took it just so I could work more overtime the next week without exceeding the work hour limits. I’ve been working a lot of overtime, which is great for the paychecks, ( Read more... ) -
Easter surprise
I spent Easter weekend with my parents. My sister also came to visit, along with her new boyfriend. We went to mass on Easter Sunday at the church I attended throughout my childhood, and sitting in the front row was one of my biggest enemies from high school. She was having her baby baptized that day. When we left, I had to walk right past her ( Read more... ) -
Shit my mom says
My parents bought a new refrigerator last week because their old one died. When it was delivered, though, it wouldn’t fit through the door, so they had to return it and buy another one. My mom told me in an e-mail, “The refrigerator that fit through the door cost $1000 less than the one we originally chose. I am thinking of spending some of the ( Read more... )