A few weeks ago, when I decided we needed a “babymoon” and to use some of my USAA points before they dropped in buying power on April 1, a few friends and a neighbor suggested Costa Rica as a warm and relatively inexpensive January destination. But, they advised me that […]
Last week, I lost two sofas, a receiver, and a subwoofer from my mancave totaling $5800. Pretty Bride lost over 1000 sewing patterns, a bunch of fabric, and a lot of other stuff that I didn’t know lived in our basement. I spent a couple days ripping out walls and […]
In a surprising move indicative of fiscal irresponsibility last week, the National Guard sent me to Las Vegas for a conference. I’d never been to Vegas before, but I met a couple bloggers at BlogHer who expressed a willingness to show me around, so I took them up on it. […]
“Fuck yeah!” was the reply to my “I think the military is sending me to your neck of the woods in a few weeks. Want to meet up for some sushi or something?” email. “A few weeks” ended last night. I followed Trudie’s (my Garmin) instructions across town. I laughed […]
I decided I wanted to go to BlogHer last week, because the cool kids I already knew were going, and I wanted to meet a couple people whose words I liked, and one person from my hometown I’d been trying to meet for months, and I figured I could write […]
