Monthly Archives: August 2009

Gasoline (and a return)

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 31, 2009
Yup, that’s the only thing I spent money on today, gasoline. I got the car today because I had a One­ToOne les­son at the Apple store.  I’d planned to run a num­ber of errands but an appoint­ment to con­sult on a web design project ran long.  Most of my other plans for the day went out [...]
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Bagels & Shmear

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 30, 2009
Ah, Sun­days.  Don’t you just love Sun­day?  I do. Today was a beau­ti­ful day with just the right amount of fall crisp­ness in the air.  Fall is my favorite sea­son of the year. What a gift to be blessed both with a beau­ti­ful fall Sun­day and the wis­dom (or sim­plic­ity of mind) to enjoy it  After church today, [...]
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Zilch

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 29, 2009
Dol­lars spent today:  $0.00 House­work done today:  next to noth­ing (I did fin­ish load­ing the dish­washer and turned it on) I was busy all day, how­ever, and got quite a bit of work done on my store.  And I dealt with a very angry, frus­trated, and scared Aspie son.  He’s fac­ing a writ­ing assign­ment that’s just too-open ended [...]
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When did Netflix expand…

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 29, 2009
their busi­ness week to include Saturday? Has any­one else noticed that recently Net­flix is send­ing out notices of receipt and ship­ping out discs on Saturday? Don’t get me wrong; I’m thrilled.  I’ve long felt that the weak­est point in Netflix’s ser­vice model was the fact that it didn’t con­duct busi­ness on Sat­ur­day.  After all, we get mail [...]
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Little Spent & a Little More Done

By Suburban Wife | Published: August 28, 2009
Hot School Lunch caterer — $26.25 The only money I spent today was the check I wrote this morn­ing to the fel­low who caters hot lunches to the kids’ school. Last year our arrange­ment with The Daugh­ter was that we’d pay for two hot meals per week and I’d pack meals for the rest of the week.  [...]
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