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Sep. 1st, 2009 09:24 amMy feet are cold. It's a chilly day (for Georgia values of chilly, which means it's 70 degrees) and I am wearing pants and long sleeves and I wish I had worn socks!
I am trying to decide what I want to do with the upcoming 3 day weekend. It would be good to take the time to run up to NC and go camping and pick apples, but it would also be nice to have an at-home weekend and do yard work and paint Casper's room. (One of her birthday presents was a gallon of pink paint.) It's my birthday Sunday.
We got an estimate from the insulation people and it's much higher than I was expecting. They have a very detailed list of stuff and it all needs to be done and I am sure it's a fine estimate, but I was just hoping it would be about half as much. We haven't yet had time to sit down together and go over the estimate and decide what we want to do about it. I sat down this summer and wrote a list of financial goals but we seem unable to make any progress about saving towards them. I know some of it is unusual expenses (two trips for 4 people to Boston, dental work, annual car insurance bill, last tuition payment for my MLS) and we should be able to get back on track in the next couple of months. But I am full of things I want for the house (new couch, rugs, blinds, dresser, chairs, mattress for Dillo) and they are all incompatible with doing the insulation work and saving up for a car and so forth. Sigh.
I am trying to decide what I want to do with the upcoming 3 day weekend. It would be good to take the time to run up to NC and go camping and pick apples, but it would also be nice to have an at-home weekend and do yard work and paint Casper's room. (One of her birthday presents was a gallon of pink paint.) It's my birthday Sunday.
We got an estimate from the insulation people and it's much higher than I was expecting. They have a very detailed list of stuff and it all needs to be done and I am sure it's a fine estimate, but I was just hoping it would be about half as much. We haven't yet had time to sit down together and go over the estimate and decide what we want to do about it. I sat down this summer and wrote a list of financial goals but we seem unable to make any progress about saving towards them. I know some of it is unusual expenses (two trips for 4 people to Boston, dental work, annual car insurance bill, last tuition payment for my MLS) and we should be able to get back on track in the next couple of months. But I am full of things I want for the house (new couch, rugs, blinds, dresser, chairs, mattress for Dillo) and they are all incompatible with doing the insulation work and saving up for a car and so forth. Sigh.