Throughout my childhood, my mom told me to turn the volume down. Sound advice, so to speak. Nevertheless, I still revel in turning up the volume as high as I want. Despite this, my hearing seems to be relatively unharmed. In fact, I often ask Tim to turn the volume down a couple of notches. But when I go to bed, there's no one to remind him of Continue Reading
Archives for November 2010
Living in a material world?
A local radio station is having a "rewind weekend" wherein they play songs from the 80s and 90s. So, as you can probably guess from the title, I heard "Material Girl" by Madonna. (Fittingly, I was on my way to buy a couple of Tim's Christmas presents.) Since I was in elementary school when the song came out, I never listened too carefully to the Continue Reading
What will your holiday shopping entail?
Okay, I promise to do fewer posts soon about buying and consumerism. But the days leading up to Black Friday are always pretty exciting for me, as I can get peeks of what ridiculous prices we'll have access to. So does anyone have any targeted purchases in mind for Black Friday? If not, how are you handling holiday shopping this year? As Continue Reading
Back to the slow cooker…
Despite being 32 years old, it would appear that neither Tim nor I can feed ourselves very reliably. (I'm sure Tim would take this moment to protest that he has a whopping 29 days left of being 31 still.) I really just don't enjoy cooking. I like having cooked. I like not spending money on fast food. But I do not enjoy, nor do I excel at, Continue Reading
What would you barter for?
Yesterday, I was reminded of the good old-fashioned barter system. A friend of a friend is working on getting a website up that would sell Magic cards. He is in a last, big push to get his inventory sorted -- about 50,000 cards are left. I mentioned to this guy that, should he ever need inventory help, Tim is usually pretty free and knows his Continue Reading
Getting ready for the big day
Thanksgiving is only 12 days away, but I'm prepared. Not for the dinner -- actually, I told Tim last night I had no interest whatsoever in cooking a turkey this year -- but I'm up on my Black Friday ads, yep yep yep. As I mentioned before, I'm a big fan of the leaked Black Friday ad sites. But this year, they're becoming integral to my Continue Reading