'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But we get to talk to Mr. Vartan while waiting on line for coffee.
We get to grocery shop with Eric McCormack and Chad Michael Murray and buy pet food with the T2 guy. whoo.
And we haven't even gotten to the weather thing.
Which, the thing where it's coastal fog alla time? Have you gotten more used to the cold?
That's the other cool thing about the bales, that you can shape and mold them as you please.
This is one of the coolest parts of my parents' house. Basically, the house is one big and one small octagon. The walls are all sort of rounded with huge window ledges. It makes for really cool spaces. My mom is a big fan of The Not So Big House . Straw bale is a form that is pretty conducive to the ideas in the book.
Hee! I have not been gotten by the Girl Scout Mafia. Hopefully the SO will pick some up when he hits the supermarket today and the cute little girls are standing outside in the rain looking all pitiful and sweet.
Have you gotten more used to the cold?
No, which is why I don't want to live anywhere with FROST, thankyewverymuch.
There's a bit of research about how in some families taxes keep the lesser-earning spouse from working. The husband can easily bump them up into a 40% tax bracket, at which point having the wife take a $20,000 job and pay for child care just isn't worth it.
Man, the childcare costs are freaking me out. We've been (finally) talking about the subject, but I dunno if I can handle it in general, least of all the finances.
Yeah, but y'all aren't in a situation where you've got two people who will be working 9-5 40 hr/week jobs with commuting and whatnot. Also you're not in the Bay Area. I'm sure your childcare expenses will be much cheaper.
the second spouse's job actually cost the family money, when everything was taken into consideration (higher tax bracket, take out food, dry cleaning, commuting costs, baby sitting costs, workplace gifts and parties, lunches out)
People who do that math always forget to take into effect retirement for the second spouse, in particular your salary basis for Social Security and your 401(K). Not to mention forgetting to take into effect that salaries normally compound, getting a little higher each year, so losing (for example) 5 years of salary raises can make a significant dent in your lifetime income.
Ooh! I read that book!
And in other news, I was supposed to start volunteering at NC Legal Aid next Monday working with immigration stuff. My contact is now going to a funeral which means I won't start for maybe 2 more weeks. I'm sort of happy to have the time to myself, but how I am going to get a job (see previous list of debts) if I don't start networking before I have this baby.
No, which is why I don't want to live anywhere with FROST, thankyewverymuch.
Oh yeah, the frost. But that was a dry cold.