Dreadful Penny

I’m an extra in a scene that’s shooting overnight tonight, with a call from 11:00 pm-10:30 am. Our home schedule is going to be awfully strange for the next couple of days.  I’ll prep two nights of dinners this afternoon — tomorrow will be slow cooker pepper steak, so I can get it ready and […]

This is the unseen side of financial stress in a family doing the “right” things: a weeping woman sitting on the floor of a closet, surrounded by piles of paperwork, as her husband tries to comfort her and undoubtedly feels a heavy burden on his own shoulders.  That was the scene at our house less […]

On Friday night, we took Kid Dreadful to see Weird Al Yankovic in concert.  I packed a picnic dinner, we had a great location in the lawn seating area, the weather was beautiful, and the concert was terrific.  As we walked to the parking lot, we were all in excellent moods.
Then I saw a look […]

Things tend to pile on all at once.  Good things, but eek.
Wednesday, I’m hosting lunch for about 20 people — my husband’s co-workers — and I’ve gotten out of practice at entertaining.  Everything will be fine, I’m keeping the menu relatively simple, the house is pretty clean already, but it still makes me tense.  Want […]

As planned, we spent some time on July 4th weekend disassembling, painting, and reassembling my bike.  (Ok, my husband did all the mechanical bits AND some of the painting; I bought the paint and applied a good amount of it.)  I still have some copper accents to add, but today I took it out for […]

I’m posting this on the slim, skinny, extremely slender chance that someone found my envelope and will search the web to find the owner. Doubtful, eh? I have to try.
What: unmarked white #10 envelope filled with coupons (over $20 in CVS ExtraCare bucks, a $5 Walgreens register rebate, free coupons for Yoplait Kids […]

2:15 - Done!  There was a registration issue; they couldn’t connect to do it online and Installer #1 reached an uncooperative person at Tier 2 support who wouldn’t do it over the phone.  Installer #3 called and got someone else, we registered over the phone, and poof!  It all worked.  I got a quick tutorial […]

… and I’ll be live-blogging the install — which they say could take 4-6 hours — in the next post.
AT&T U-Verse will be replacing service that we have from WOW. I want to be very clear that we’ve had no problems whatsoever with WOW. Their service has been good, outages have been extremely […]

I am. Or at least, I was. This is Kid Dreadful’s last week of school; he’ll be spending part of the summer elsewhere and when he’s home, we’ll drive each other nuts if we’re stuck here and bored all day. So, I’ve been thinking of seizing the opportunity to earn money toward […]