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Christmas is Coming…

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 19, 2009
and I’ve still got a lot of work to do. Barnes & Noble — $47.40 You know, I’m not a huge fan of Barnes & Noble.  It’s not that I have any par­tic­u­lar prob­lem with them as a cor­po­ra­tion but I’ve never seen a com­pany that so uni­ver­sally does a ter­ri­ble job of hir­ing qual­i­fied employ­ees.  What’s up [...]
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$325.52

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 12, 2008
That’s the total value of The Son’s unused stack of Barnes & Noble gift cards. Why so many?  Because The Son is noto­ri­ously dif­fi­cult to shop for.  One thing he loves to do is read.  So, over the years, gift cards for book stores have become the stan­dard fall-back gift for The Son from extended family. Buy why [...]
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$$: Coyote Sighting Edition

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 18, 2008
A coy­ote crossed the road in front of me this morn­ing as it trav­eled from one sec­tion of green­belt to another.  I can’t remem­ber ever being that close to a coy­ote before and see­ing it there, in the mid­dle of an upscale sub­ur­ban devel­op­ment, was a glo­ri­ous tes­ta­ment to the will and drive to sur­vive [...]
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$$: Panda Express, Groceries, a Book & a Shirt

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 2, 2008
Ugh.  Today did not go as planned.  The Son and I had an appoint­ment for a One-to-One les­son at the Apple store.  I was really look­ing for­ward to it.  The Son asked for some time on the com­puter which I reluc­tantly gave him because it was a lit­tle too early to get packed up.  I [...]
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Day 264: Returns, T-Shirts, and N2O Cream Charger Cartridges

By Suburban Wife | Published: May 22, 2008
The Con­tainer Store — ($35.31) I returned four items from my shop­ping spree last week: First, the plas­tic lid to stor­age box on coast­ers.  Come on, let’s be real­is­tic here — it will be a mir­a­cle if I can get The Son to actu­ally con­tain his socks and misc stuff in these con­tain­ers to begin with; [...]
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