The Amazing $32 Stuff-Loaded Table

All that. For $32. Let me explain: This is the food part, accrued from Kroger’s and Aldi’s. The food part of our adventures today totaled $35.78. Then I walked into CVS today with the mission to spend $40 in ECBs that were expiring on Friday. I had to get...

Meet and Greet Mishaps

So I finally get DSL. So you’d think there’d be all sorts of pictures and maybe even a video on this week’s Meet and Greet. But no. My card reader broke. The one I got for Christmas. It’s less than two months old. And the cord that connects the...

Get It While It’s Hot!

The Recipe Swap ’08 button is HERE! (Well, technically, THERE. See? Over to your left?) And I would greatly appreciate the mass-telling of this event. (Which will be starting Thursday, February 28 and continuing in a Thursday-type pattern until we run out of...

So We Might Be Moving.

This is potentially the longest stretch we’ve ever lived in the same apartment.  So we’re not sure… Is the rent supposed to go up $50 EVERY YEAR?! Sigh.  When we moved in, we were expected to pay $529/month.  Very doable on a graduate student...

One Thing I’ve Learned About Potty Training

Take one potty chair: Throw in an entertaining read: And some favorite toys: And, here’s the kicker, add one step stool: And you’ve just set up a work table/play area that will keep a restless toddler ON THE POTTY until, well, her work is done. Works for...