A month since blogging. Nice. We were doing really well in May up until the last few days of the month and into the first week of this month. We had to go out of town unexpectedly. Fortunately, we had money to use without having to dip into our emergency fund. Unfortunately, that wasn’t what we wanted to use that money on. Because I missed our extra debt payment in April, I paid twice as much plus some extra to … Continue reading
A few thing good came out of April. My engagement ring was fixed, my husband surprised me with tickets to Wicked, and both of us are very much on the same page with our finances. And yes, the chart below really does say Emergency Fund -1%. This is the first time I have felt like we are working together on our financial future. I don’t want to get into it too much but let’s just say that we are now encouraging … Continue reading
One Saturday morning, I was give a few hours in the house allllllll to myself with instructions to “sew or do something else that makes you happy”. This was such a wonderful and spontaneous gift from my hubby and is just one example of why I love this man! I can’t remember exactly everything I did in those few hours, but I was able to knock out three sewing projects that ::srsly:: were not very big projects. I know this … Continue reading
Happy Monday!! Despite introducing you to Apple Hash in my last post (over a week ago), here I am to tell you that I wrote a contributor post for Colleen Houck, author of NYT Bestsellers Tiger’s Curse, Tiger’s Quest, Tiger’s Voyage, and Tiger’s Destiny. What does food and authors have to do with one another, you might ask. Well, I’ll tell you. This particular experience I’m sharing over on her website, is an Indian-type food called rogan josh. And her … Continue reading
Oatmeal was a food I used to enjoy every once in a while. My favorite was made by Better Oats. Okay, my two favorites. And both by Better Oats. One was their Raw Pure and Simple line and the other was Lavish. Lavish was dark chocolate. And oh so very delicious. And yes, while it was instant oatmeal, it had a simple ingredients list. However, moving towards my lifetime style of eating… some of those ingredients need to be kicked … Continue reading