Happy New Year Everyone! I love New Year’s. I love the challenge of moving forward, of setting new goals for yourself, of the possibility of reinvention and the promise of continual improvement. It’s also at New Year’s that I reflect, and think about where I was last New Year’s Eve, or the one before, or…
And I’m going to miss them. š That’s all.
As mentioned, we are watching our budget in preparation for a project. A home renovation project. Earlier this year, we bought a place that needs work. A lot of work. A huge, expensive amount of work. We have put a lot of work (read: cash, read: every cent we have plus some) into it already,…
It’s none of my business, it’s really none of my business… But whenever I get wind of other people’s financial problems, I get anxious. Say someone without retirement savings goes on an all-inclusive Cuban vacation: I’ll hear about it, my chest tightens, my heart speeds up, and I need to literally bite my lip until…
The other night, as Z sat unsuspectingly on the couch, enjoying a quiet night in, I discovered an intruder in our kitchen cupboard. A sole dreaded pantry moth. Bain of my mother’s existence, and of bags of starchy foodstuffs everywhere. “Oh God, Honey!” I cried. “We have one – we have a moth!” “What?” he…
I know what you’re thinking: you’ve missed me, oh God, how you’ve missed me. I have days where I have so much to say, butĀ I haven’t had one of those in a while. I can’t tell if I’m through with talking, or just have a case of the ennui. There was a time when that…
Did you and your spouse do your renovation without fighting? Trick question. No married couple has ever completed a home renovation without fighting. The only couple I’ve ever heard of getting through a renovation without one spat is the one profiled in the first couple of paragraphs here: The thing about the renovation is that…
My family is athletic. I’m probably, now that I think of it, the least athletic person of us all. For fun, we do things like root each other on while completing marathons, or travelling to participate in relays together. Skiing, swimming, tobogganing – any/all of this would be considered “fun”. Growing up, my parents had…
When I was about 14, I went with my mom to a department store so she could get some more face cream. “Is it time for you to have face cream?” she wondered. “Would you like to try some?” Sitting at a counter, doing a skin analysis with one of the sales women, I mentioned…
Last night, we had some friends over for drinks. The friends are cat lovers, so – naturally – they tried to pet ours. Though she’d been in the mood for their love before, last night she was having none of it. She hissed at the man. He laughed, and gave her some space. At the…
