Hec, I like the send-some-art-to-a-friend idea!
I met with one of my artist friends tonight! We socially distanced and I bought to-go cocktails which we drank in the park, and discussed a commission and Goya and whatnot and it was great. I haven't seen her since January.
Side note: during a family xmas gift exchange JZ's brother asked me what she'd like. And I said, "Original art would be cool. Maybe something fannish from a Wes Anderson movie." And that's why we have a very cool little Grand Budapest Hotel painting.
Doesn't the smell make you constantly want a boozy frozen tropical drink?
Considering my summer drink of choice has been Malibu Rum and pineapple juice? YES.
My hand sanitizer smells like, um, rubbing alcohol. I'm thinking I need to upgrade.
I don't want hand sanitizer to make me thirsty, I want to feel clean and GERM FREE! If they made one in sterilizing gamma rays scent, I'd buy it.
Considering my summer drink of choice has been Malibu Rum and pineapple juice? YES.
That's typically my vacation drink, but I really should start drinking it at home this year.
I haven't been buying much, but I did recently order 1000 new bathing suits to try on, so we'll see.
I've been buying a RIDIC number of eBooks this summer.
I've been getting most of my new books from little free libraries although I did just put one back after reading like a quarter because it was so bad. Like, I wondered if it was too racist to put back out into the world and maybe I should just throw it away.
I have been spending like crazy but without going into debt.
Garage door and gate project, t-shirts, a few books and audiobooks, plants, planters, birdseed/feeders, bras, work clothes, so many fake nail sets, lots of take-out food.
Our biggest financial thing is making sure we have the right amount of life insurance, and also disability insurance, and then shoring up our emergency fund/retirement accounts (such as they are). Financial planning gives me the cold sweats, because my parents were lousy at it and I didn't have any good model of how an adult responsibly manages money. But Tim and I survived our money discussions without actually fighting, so that was heartening.
His heart surgery was in January, and at the hospital that morning he paid a $400 copay. So far he's gotten one bill, for $150, from the home healthcare service that sent a nurse to our house 3 times while he was recovering. Literally no other bills have come yet. And tomorrow is August, which is 7 (seven!) months after his surgery, and I'm really just waiting to get the bill for the balance of his surgery, after his insurance's portion is paid. Because no one has heart surgery for $400. (Or else Tim's employer provides fucking platinum-plated Cadillac insurance. And while the insurance seems pretty good, it cannot possibly be heart-surgery-for-$400 good.) But the bills sure are taking their sweet time getting here, which is driving me nuts. We can't plan shit financially if we don't know what we owe on his surgery.
