Checking things off the list.

Craigslist can be Win or Fail. This weekend, it was both. Mostly Win, but also some Fail. I already mentioned that the stroller was a Win. Sadly, the elliptical was a Fail. There’s a reason this guy was selling it for $250. We passed. But Craigslist (well, really, Craigslist inspired by our neighborhood listserv) redeemed [...]

Stroller win!

I picked up our new stroller yesterday. I feel like I’ve accomplished something, getting one of our bigger items.  Not that we’ll be using it for months and months and months, but we have it. And that’s something.

Working Craigslist

I’ve been monitoring several Craigslist searches for months now, looking for certain items that I don’t want to pay full price for in preparation for the baby.  I’m picky — unless it’s a really expensive item, I generally don’t want to have to haul myself out to a really far-away suburb for it, and I [...]

Word

None of these things merit an individual post, but all of them are worthy of note. *** Despite five days of vacation in the land of lard (that would be Texas, where I ate Whataburger twice in 28 hours and more homemade flour tortillas than I want to count), I have managed to maintain on [...]

Things I’m too old for, #1

I think I’m too old for them, but I just bought these: The spouse claims they look like stripper shoes. I think they make my legs look long, and I bought them for vacation and to wear with a cute embroidered cotton dress, so I figure they’re probably OK. But I’m definitely too old for [...]