This day was such a debacle that it merits its own, separate post. Tim's cousin, Patti, lives in a mid-size town (about 12,000 people) called Port Orchard, and Saturday was devoted to visiting her. Unfortunately, there were a few things that kind of ruined the visit. First, we stayed in a Port Orchard motel, which we'll get to in a minute. Continue Reading
Archives for May 2017
The trip (part one)
I would've put this up several days ago, but I've been writing and rewriting this thing a lot. Covering a week's worth of travel takes a lot of words. I keep reorganizing and reordering the tale, and the length was ridiculous too. So I'm splitting the account into three separate posts -- the second of which will be picture-heavy, by the way -- Continue Reading
A nominal post
This is a very, very dashed-out-because-I-don't-want-the-blog-to-molder post. I'm not editing it, so please forgive typos, rambling, etc. (Which, to be fair, are probably in a fair chunk of my edited posts too, but let's pretend that's not true for now.) I wanted to have a post up this morning. I was going to talk about our vacation. There's Continue Reading
This won’t be a long post
We're back, and there's plenty to tell. But not today. Yesterday morning, Tim's parents contacted us (by Facebook because we'd managed to lose the flip phone we got) to say that Patches had passed away in the night. We spent most of the day alternating between numb and crying -- and self-medicating with food (me). When we got home, we cried, Continue Reading
What frugality isn’t
(This is a guest post from my mom, Donna Freedman, who contributed it so that I could go on vacation without stressing over a week without blog activity.) A commenter on “For a SHIRT?!,” Abby’s recent post about the cost of clothing, nailed it in the last sentence of her comment: “Frugality isn’t always about not spending money – it’s about Continue Reading
How we chose our new rewards card
By the time you read this we'll be in Seattle, enjoying a trip mostly financed with travel rewards. So it's only appropriate that I tell you about our plans for next year's rewards trip. The place I want to take Tim to Washington D.C. next year. He's never been there, and I haven't visited in 15 years. Even when I did, I was an intern Continue Reading