Failed Marketing

We’ve been getting a computerized telephone call left on our answering machine the last couple of days, in which the caller begs us to call him back regarding our “outstanding credit card debt”, and claims that they will be able to help us reduce our debt to nothing, and they will “even loan us [you] [...]

Jumping Back In

Well, obviously trying to catch up with everything that’s happened since I last posted is hopeless, so I guess I will just skip all that and pick up where we are.  The perfectionist in me hates to do that, but on the other hand it seems better than just giving up, which is the other [...]

Happy Birthday, Teresa!

Wow, I can’t believe my little baby is a year old already!  (Neither can anyone else, come to think of it – probably because she’s so tiny still.)  She has been a mile-marker baby in many ways.  She started by being our first unassisted birth, and went on to be our first girl who hasn’t [...]

Blog Updated

Okay, I finally got all my posts from the last week up, so everything is updated now.

Jackpot!

We went to a thrift store today, and as is often the case, did not find what we were looking for.  Such is the nature of thrift stores.  However, we did come across one of those rare finds that make shopping at thrift stores really worthwhile: 
I’ve been wearing Birkenstocks for two years now, [...]

Learning the Lingua

Lingua Latina, that is. My husband learned recently that one of the classes he will be teaching this fall will be a Latin class. This particular Latin class not only teaches Latin, but is taught in Latin. Which means that the professor has to be able to actually speak Latin, not just [...]

The thief who left behind his phone number

We had another incident of an unauthorized charge, this one on our credit card.  Not a big one this time; this one was only for $9.45.  The charge showed up on our statement along with the company phone number however, which doesn’t seem very smart on their side of things.  On the other hand, calling [...]

A New Form of Bio-Terrorism

The kids have a subscription to the magazine RANGER RICK, and today we received letter requesting that we renew the subscription.  In the letter, they emphasize that “Renewing promptly saves you further notices and conserves paper.”  In other words, if you don’t renew right away, we will have to keep sending you notices, thus wasting [...]

Prohibition on Prohibiting Clotheslines

Okay, so it’s not relevant to us here, not being in an HOA (Home Owner’s Association), but I was nonetheless delighted to find out that Florida actually has a statute protecting everyone’s right to hang dry clothing!  I wonder if certain HOAs know about this statute?

Time in a Bottle

That’s what I need about now. Just a few extra hours a day would do it, I think. I can’t sleep less; I tried that. I don’t feel like I can stop doing school with the kids; they need the routine. I certainly can’t stop doing cooking, laundry, housecleaning, etc. [...]