Well, the end of April is upon us. I feel like I haven't blogged in forever, but it's actually been less than a month. MIKE hasn't blogged in forever. ;)
We made it in a couple of different ways.
1) Zack has a job now. He's getting paid for going in for orientation today, so it has officially started. Weeee!
2) We made it through the month without needing to turn the AC on. It got difficult there for a few days, but it's been cooler again. I even had a long sleeved shirt on to go to bed last night. It gets hot here, but as long as it cools down for the sleeping time, I'm okay.
3) Unless something weird happens, we'll have spent less than $120 on food this month. That's down from a budgeted $250 that people told us we'd need. Granted, we were given a lot of food this month, too, but I'm relatively certain I can keep us near or under $150 for food every month. We had to get some clothing items with that, too - a very rare extra expenditure.
4) Friday/Saturday will be our three-month anniversary. :) Friday is the date anniversary; Saturday is the week anniversary. In case you were wondering how it could be both. =)
And that is my reporting on the month of April. :)
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Sun, Sun, Go Away
And don't come back til the end of May! ;)
It's the Michigan in me talking. =)
It's April Fools Day! The only joke I heard of was the one that Google pulled. Google always does something. Although, I'm kind of waiting for the day when they do something outrageous that is actually true, but then everyone will think it's not true. It's like a backwards, "April Fools!" . . . . . Sloof Lirpa!
Teehee!
Baseball season has apparently started. I keep seeing posts on Facebook about the Padres and the Giants now. . . . . There goes the rest of the year. If only it waited to start until AFTER my birthday. I'm not sure why that would make it better, but somehow it would. I think it's like kind of like having to take a difficult test right before your birthday (something I had to do multiple times). For whatever reason, it'd just be WAY easier to enjoy your birthday if that test came a week later.
But oh well. I like where my birthday is. :) It's on a Thursday this year, too! Thursdays are one of my favorite days. Probably because when I was growing up it was the end of the school week. Friday you just had the leftovers - if you hadn't done them earlier, but Thursday was good because I wasn't bored - I had school - but it was the end. Nothing to dread the next day.
I've been wanting (and trying, though not very hard) to write lately. I have this story. It's the only thing I've written that I would ever want to possibly be published. It's morphed numerous times until it's pretty much nothing like how it started. But I like it better now. The hard part is, I've never written a good story that follows multiple lines. I'm not good at that. I have one stream, one line, that I write. The others are there, but they don't have to be well-defined. I don't know all the details; I just know how they fit in with the one that I'm writing.
This story, I'm trying to write two lines. Only for part of it - the two main characters split up for a while and then rendezvous later - but it's draining the life out of the story because a huge part of what I was writing was their interaction. Pull them apart and suddenly I have nothing to write. It's been frustrating. Also, one of my characters is steadily becoming less and less likable. (Doesn't that look like it should have an "e?" Spellcheck says it shouldn't. . . . It looks weird.) I'm going to have to think of a way to make her cool-ish again.
Anyway. Enough about me. Tell me about you! =) ;)
It's the Michigan in me talking. =)
It's April Fools Day! The only joke I heard of was the one that Google pulled. Google always does something. Although, I'm kind of waiting for the day when they do something outrageous that is actually true, but then everyone will think it's not true. It's like a backwards, "April Fools!" . . . . . Sloof Lirpa!
Teehee!
Baseball season has apparently started. I keep seeing posts on Facebook about the Padres and the Giants now. . . . . There goes the rest of the year. If only it waited to start until AFTER my birthday. I'm not sure why that would make it better, but somehow it would. I think it's like kind of like having to take a difficult test right before your birthday (something I had to do multiple times). For whatever reason, it'd just be WAY easier to enjoy your birthday if that test came a week later.
But oh well. I like where my birthday is. :) It's on a Thursday this year, too! Thursdays are one of my favorite days. Probably because when I was growing up it was the end of the school week. Friday you just had the leftovers - if you hadn't done them earlier, but Thursday was good because I wasn't bored - I had school - but it was the end. Nothing to dread the next day.
I've been wanting (and trying, though not very hard) to write lately. I have this story. It's the only thing I've written that I would ever want to possibly be published. It's morphed numerous times until it's pretty much nothing like how it started. But I like it better now. The hard part is, I've never written a good story that follows multiple lines. I'm not good at that. I have one stream, one line, that I write. The others are there, but they don't have to be well-defined. I don't know all the details; I just know how they fit in with the one that I'm writing.
This story, I'm trying to write two lines. Only for part of it - the two main characters split up for a while and then rendezvous later - but it's draining the life out of the story because a huge part of what I was writing was their interaction. Pull them apart and suddenly I have nothing to write. It's been frustrating. Also, one of my characters is steadily becoming less and less likable. (Doesn't that look like it should have an "e?" Spellcheck says it shouldn't. . . . It looks weird.) I'm going to have to think of a way to make her cool-ish again.
Anyway. Enough about me. Tell me about you! =) ;)
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