Life

My water and trash bill is $18 less than I budgeted for! I can go bowling next weekend! Being a grownup: not doing what you want to do when you want to do it, but when it makes financial sense to do it.

I think this is the first month since I started my new budget in January that I actually 1) didn’t come in over budget 2) didn’t put anything on my credit card 3) didn’t go to Chipotle at least once a week (I only had two Chipotle receipts!) Groceries Budget: $350Actual: $347.20Creative accounting: I had

I drink too much diet Coke.

Went over to Steph and the Old Man’s today to help them put together the last of their shelves down in the basement. Learned how to properly use a power drill. They’ve been remodeling their bathroom all week, and using my shower while theirs is out of commission. Their bathroom looks like a real Oakwood

The grass is brown, and the season puts me in the mood to look up, and up, always, for the first dead leaves of the season. Even though it’s just August, it’s the beginning of the end. Maybe I’m just reminded of Alaska, when the leaves were falling in mid-August, when the storms were coming

Went out and watched The Dark Knight again with a couple guys from work, and paid more attention to the gender dynamics that folks were mentioning. And yeah, it’s true. It’s so classicaly comic-bookey in the good way (good vs. evil, chaos vs. order, epic villian vs. epic hero, etc), and in the bad way.

My WoW account expired yesterday, much to the delight of my book contract and my waistline. I suspect the 5 lbs I’ve gained over the last three months have just as much to do with too much WoW as they do with too many flourless peanut butter cookies. Now that I’m on the pump, I’m

Not sure when I’ll be back, but for the two whole readers who come here regularly, do not despair: I am probably not dead.