Tag Archives: The Tank

$$: Meat and Potatoes

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 12, 2008
Ugh.  Friday’s are tough because The Daugh­ter gets one car and The Hus­band and I have to share the sec­ond one but we both have busy sched­ules because The Son’s in class on Fri­day and I volunteer. Whole Foods — $11.06 2.83# organic rus­set pota­toes — $2.80 @ 3# ground turkey thigh — $8.10 The plan is to make a nice [...]
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$$: Dec 5 — Baby, It’s Cold Inside

By Suburban Wife | Published: December 9, 2008
Mur­phy showed up today and as we all know, vis­its from Mur­phy can be expensive. Our portable elec­tric heater broke.  While I was using it.  In the base­ment.  It was cold out­side.  It was warm in the base­ment until the heater broke. Hon­estly, I felt betrayed.  The mal­func­tion was com­pletely unex­pected.  The heater wasn’t all that old.  [...]
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$$: Gas in the Tank

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 30, 2008
Safe­way — $27.44 On the way home from church today, the kids and I stopped to tank up The Tank.  I pumped 16.639 gal­lons at an amaz­ing $1.649 per gal­lon.  The odome­ter read 135,584. I didn’t write a weekly offer­ing check at church this morn­ing because I for­got my checkbook.
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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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$$: Beef, Cupcakes, and Gas

By Suburban Wife | Published: November 15, 2008
Still sick.  Sick of being sick. The Husband’s special-needs son is about to turn 41.  We cel­e­brated tonight because he joins us for din­ner every Sat­ur­day.  He loves meat­loaf — but I had no ground beef.  I did have left­over Twice-Baked Pota­toes from last night and broc­coli I pur­chased yesterday. Whole Foods — $9.11 2+ # of 91% lean ground [...]
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