What Shamu Taught Me About A Happy Marriage

I hate that kind of relationship reporting. I sometimes wonder if that's because I don't have enough relationship perspective, but not for long. Then I go back to hating.

I did! Juliana turned me on to Three Olives Cherry Vodka. Le yum.

if you're in the market for a laptop, Office Depot is having a sale to get rid of their XP machines so they can make room for their Vista ones that are coming in. i think it lasts until the 20th.

the one i wanted was sadly out of stock, but they said they'll be getting more in. so i may have a laptop by the end of the week. wheeeee!!

oh and my tire only cost $10.93 to fix. yay!!

oh and my tire only cost $10.93 to fix. yay!

Yay! Unless it's a repeat business discount.

Yay, tiggy. It's nice when unexpected expenses don't end up being that bad.

Ah, I shall thank or curse you once I try it, Kristin. Though I bought pom cause I like it more than cherry. I think. Maybe I should try both.

But only after I renukify the hot pack and melt into the couch a bit more.

We are having the prettiest sunset right now. All shot through with pink. And many, many mountains were out today. I saw Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens. Never got to a place where I could try to see Rainier so I can't report if it was visible as well but there was a whole lot of mountain out today.

Speaking of happy surprises with car repairs, the neighborhood garage replaced our battery as well as did a couple incredibly necessary fixes that saved our car from basically coming apart at the seams (we had a rotted transmission line as well as an about-to-snap tie rod) if we'd done any hghway speed driving, and it only cost $600. Which I know sounds like a LOT, but the preemptive repairs saved us probably 10 times that, and more, 'cause we'd need to get a new car, because this car ain't worth more than $1-2K in repairs a year. (which we try to budget for.)

In conclusion, I'm *incredibly* thankful we called the garage as soon as we figured out there was a problem, and that we don't commute any significant distance, and that we did not drive to CT this weekend. But I'm also a little wigged about how close we came to disaster. Not a lot, but a little.

I think we'll need to get the mechanic to do a look-see more frequently now that things are starting to need replacing on this 8 year old, 110K+ mile car...

Yikes, Nora! I am glad you stayed home this weekend.

What Shamu Taught Me About A Happy Marriage

It is annoying because it treats husband as animal and it comes off very manipulative. However, it is interesting because it has a few ideas that make sense , taken out of the animal context. Praising things you like - and at the same time ignoring the stuff that won't matter 10 years from now, is sensible. Also, looking to see how your behavoir is escalting something, and then not doing the escalting behavior - logical .

It just reinforces my tendency to call the mechanic about pretty much any stupid thing. Stich in time... saves nine... blah blah blah.