Ice cream cake is of the yum! Have fun, Sparky!

With coffee, bitterness and recrimination?

Works for me every time.

Makes sense. Every time I drink coffee, there is usually bitterness and recrimination.

t signed

Tea drinker

Feh. Just caught up after much skipping and skimming, and now I have to leave for work. how is this fair?

Andi and I won the lottery yesterday.

$4.

...on a $3 investment.

Winnings take a while to accumulate at this rate.

What kills is the fact that I make good money, and we've cut back on the non-essentials, but damnit, I hate not having a cushion. If we had it to do all over again, I think we may have waited another year before buying the house.

Yeah, I nod to all of this (except I'm not the one making decent money). I had a bit of a freakout about the dwindled savings earlier this week and I'm trying to save my panic and worry for when the situation actually warrants it (I'm not saying you are panicking and you should do the same, I'm just relating the end result of my particular recent issue).

And I go back and forth on should we have waited to get the house... a lot of times, I think yes. We should have saved for another year and gotten in on the declining sellers market, in a lot of ways. However, we were really ready to leave that apartment, I didn't want to have to move again when we bought, and I would have missed out on the house that is now our home and I love it lots and lots of good stuff has happened there. I keep trying to remind myself of that.

Morning, peeps! I am happy to report I did not 'splode in the night, although I did stop breathing and awoke coughing and gasping, which was not fun. But, I had a very nice dental cleaning today (as nice as they can be) where I was told that I didn't have much plaque or tartar, it didn't hurth that much, and I need no additional work at this time! This is very good news.

One should not have to wake up at 6 a.m. after not going to bed till midnight. How do people do this on a regular basis?

This is why I go to bed at 9. I fall asleep at 10 or so, but we start the wind down EARLY. Can't function otherwise. This is also why I have no time to do anything in the night time during the week. However! I did have dinner with EllenS last night right after work and that was fun times.

One should not have to wake up at 6 a.m. after not going to bed till midnight. How do people do this on a regular basis?

I need to go to bed at 9 or 10, but it doesn't happen. Last night it was after 11. Then up at 4:45 to bring my sister to the Miami airport by 6:00 for a 6:55 flight. It was already a zoo, but she made it on time. In summary, tired.

I could be a morning person if I could ever get to bed at a decent hour. It would be easier if the world would get busy a little later.

I cannot resist the number slut!

Well, you may be slutty with your new shiny teeth. Yay for an easy visit!

One should not have to wake up at 6 a.m. after not going to bed till midnight. How do people do this on a regular basis?

We usually go to bed around midnight. If the kids go down at 8:30 p.m., we enjoy that time together or individually as grown ups. And it works well if the kids sleep until 7. That rarely works out as planned. There's usually always some kind of kink--kids' waking in the wee hours, dogs or cat waking us up or the kids deciding that 5:30 a.m. is much more fun than 7 a.m.

In short, we'd have less bitterness and reciminations if we'd just get our asses to bed by 10 p.m.

Our schedule is almost exactly the same. Only I have to get up by 6:30am to exercise. Thankfully the kids don't generally get up before 7:30am. It's so hard to get to bed earlier though, by the time a bit of cleaning is done there's not much time before 10:00pm.