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Awesome Comments and Posts 6-19Dec 2014

December 20th, 2014 | 4 Comments

Awesome Comments and Posts 6-19Dec 2014

Winter break started early for us this year – we have already been in California for a few days! It’s been a working vacation so far as Kyle had to negotiate a few remote work days to be able to leave town so early, and of course my funemployment ‘work’ follows me everywhere (and I enjoy it!).   The last two weeks have consisted of holiday parties, basketball games, discussions about my PhD PF talks, some volunteering, and … Read entire article »

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December 2013 Month in Review: Money

January 3rd, 2014 | 7 Comments

December 2013 Month in Review: Money

Given that this was December, we actually had a pretty normal spending month.  We bought all of our Christmas presents, but the cost was reimbursed out of our Travel and Personal Gifts account, as was our spending on gas to get to my parents’ house for the holidays.  Our discretionary spending was remarkably close to 100% across all five categories.  We had an unusual number of miscellaneous purchases this month, but they were all fairly … Read entire article »

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Favorite Posts, Mentions, and Top Comments Week of 22December2013

December 29th, 2013 | 12 Comments

Favorite Posts, Mentions, and Top Comments Week of 22December2013

As I told you last week, we drove to my parents’ place on Sunday for our Christmas break.  Since then, we’ve been: spending time with family cooking hanging out with friends reading (I’m working on Gulp by Mary Roach, but I have two more books to get to after that!) watching movies (47 Ronin and Elysium, and some older ones) and Modern Family napping helping my mom with some of her errands   One of the errands we helped with was taking, touching up, … Read entire article »

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