Marching Back to School!
It’s Sunday night, the last day of February. I’m reclined in the recliner, watching Searching for Italy with Stanley Tucci. My feet hurt. The kitchen is full of dirty dishes, […]
Category Archives: Frugality
Mother Nature and Old Man Winter
Although I still toy with the idea of moving to somewhere more remote and with more nature surrounding me, I am so happy to be where I am and I […]
A Week in the Life
The weekend of 1/23 was great for GSD! I had a somewhat short, thoughtful, targeted list of things to do and got it nearly all done. Saturday, I took F […]
January
I just started using Microsoft OneNote at work, which is like a virtual notebook, with “tabs” and “pages.” And you can have multiple notebooks. Pretty cool. I wonder if I […]
Christmas 2020
It’s 2021 and Christmas seems far away already. But we had a very cozy and quiet December culminating in a . . . cozy and quiet holiday. Very different from […]
I Love Cheap Thrills
Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun… on vacation. Vacation wins: I booked directly with the hotel chain and joined their rewards club (for free) and got a […]
Adapt, Create, Nurture, Ponder
August. When you kind of want to go to the pool but not really. When you sort of want school to start but not really. When you feel like you […]
Magic Wagon Ride
On a recent Saturday morning, I took my trusty beach wagon back to the supermarket. The first time I did this, no one batted an eye, but on Saturday I […]
Summer Spending
We are past Memorial Day and into summer, which means it’s time to figure out just how much all the summer fun is going to cost me. The town pool […]
June, She Comes So Soon
Busy busy busy, but spring soccer has finally wrapped up and Flat Stanley is finished, ostensibly the last Flat Stanley project that I’ll ever oversee. The Blacktop Bash has come […]
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