-noun
one without a car.
As I was walking to court yesterday and it was 90+ degrees outside, I thought how easy it would be if I had a car, to drive the 4-5 blocks to court, which is not unusual when it comes to my office.
But then I thought about how simple life is without a car. Sure, I have to depend on people for rides, but worse case scenario, I would walk the 4 miles home, but public transportation is very accessible as well. The bus stop is less than a block from work and it stops a block from my house. I haven't used it yet, since my boo always drops me off and picks me up from work. My office is conveniently located right off the freeway in Downtown Lincoln and he would have to drive right past it to get to his office anyway.
On Friday nights when Seth works at his other job, my future Mother-in-law would pick me up and we would go on a Friday night date off to the mall or other girl-friendly destination. Now we only live half a mile from each other, so it's super easy too.
Financially speaking, I'm sure Seth and I are saving at least $10K a year with one less car. No monthly car payments, maintenance, oil changes, gas, insurance, etc. I'm sure eventually I would get a car, but probably when it becomes a huge inconvenience or when we have kids. But now, it seems to me that driving is really not a necessity. There are tons of people in the world without cars. It's actually very nice not to drive.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
pi·quant
-adjective
1. agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart
2. agreeably stimulating, interesting, or attractive
3. of an interestingly provocative or lively character
4. Archaic . sharp or stinging, esp. to the feelings
We are 95% done with our house. Seth has been doing yard work almost every night, while I sink myself into our couch and bask in my guilty pleasure of reality television.
Seth does the yardwork, the vacuuming, most of the organizing and the laundry.
I do the dusting, cooking and washing the dishes. Pretty even split in chores, I think. :D
The TV still has to be mounted into the wall above our fireplace. We got the mount this week, but it is heavy and shockingly expensive! Seth's dad will come over Sunday morning to help him put up the heavy tv onto the heavy mount. Let's hope they get it up there into the studs so we don't end up with more work to do.
Sunday afternoon, we have our monthly potluck with my two attorney friends and their significant others. Jon, Scott and I spent almost a week in Minnesota for a training back in March and we decided to try to get together once every month or so for a potluck. We are from the same organization, just different offices.
We have done an Italian theme dinner at our downtown apt. A Mexican theme dinner at Scott's apt and a Chinese themed dinner at my Aunt and Uncle's restaurant. This Sunday will be a all-American BBQ at Jon & Micki's apt.
I am bringing salads and dessert for Sunday and can't wait to try some new recipes. I'm planning to do a sweet broccoli salad (hopefully like the Souplantation's version which is super yummy!) a pasta salad, a cornbread salad (never heard of this before but we have a ton of cornbread mix in our pantry) and a potato salad.
For dessert, I'm just making Hong Kong style egg tarts. Micki (Jon's wife) loves Asian food and culture and egg tarts are a dim sum dessert staple. Hopefully she will like those as much as Seth likes them.
I made Seth tacos last night... and I'm super excited to make homemade pizza tonight. I will get started with my salads that I will be making tomorrow by making homemade mayonnaise today!
Can't wait to be in the kitchen, barefoot & cooking (not pregnant). Haha.
1. agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart
2. agreeably stimulating, interesting, or attractive
3. of an interestingly provocative or lively character
4. Archaic . sharp or stinging, esp. to the feelings
We are 95% done with our house. Seth has been doing yard work almost every night, while I sink myself into our couch and bask in my guilty pleasure of reality television.
Seth does the yardwork, the vacuuming, most of the organizing and the laundry.
I do the dusting, cooking and washing the dishes. Pretty even split in chores, I think. :D
The TV still has to be mounted into the wall above our fireplace. We got the mount this week, but it is heavy and shockingly expensive! Seth's dad will come over Sunday morning to help him put up the heavy tv onto the heavy mount. Let's hope they get it up there into the studs so we don't end up with more work to do.
Sunday afternoon, we have our monthly potluck with my two attorney friends and their significant others. Jon, Scott and I spent almost a week in Minnesota for a training back in March and we decided to try to get together once every month or so for a potluck. We are from the same organization, just different offices.
We have done an Italian theme dinner at our downtown apt. A Mexican theme dinner at Scott's apt and a Chinese themed dinner at my Aunt and Uncle's restaurant. This Sunday will be a all-American BBQ at Jon & Micki's apt.
I am bringing salads and dessert for Sunday and can't wait to try some new recipes. I'm planning to do a sweet broccoli salad (hopefully like the Souplantation's version which is super yummy!) a pasta salad, a cornbread salad (never heard of this before but we have a ton of cornbread mix in our pantry) and a potato salad.
For dessert, I'm just making Hong Kong style egg tarts. Micki (Jon's wife) loves Asian food and culture and egg tarts are a dim sum dessert staple. Hopefully she will like those as much as Seth likes them.
I made Seth tacos last night... and I'm super excited to make homemade pizza tonight. I will get started with my salads that I will be making tomorrow by making homemade mayonnaise today!
Can't wait to be in the kitchen, barefoot & cooking (not pregnant). Haha.
Friday, August 20, 2010
mile·stone
–noun
1. a stone functioning as a milepost.
2. a significant event or stage in the life, progress, development, or the like of a person, nation, etc
The following is in the most emailed NY Times article today:
"Sociologists traditionally define the “transition to adulthood” as marked by five milestones: completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child.
In 1960, 77 percent of women and 65 percent of men had, by the time they reached 30, passed all five milestones. Among 30-year-olds in 2000, according to data from the United States Census Bureau, fewer than half of the women and one-third of the men had done so."
***
Interesting huh? and it's certainly true. I'm 26, 27 in January and I have completed three of the five milestones. In the next year, I would complete the fourth - marriage - but having a child? That's for sure after I'm 30. Despite what my paralegal Heather says. Haha.
But, I know plenty of people who are not even close to reaching the five milestones and there's nothing wrong with that either.
1. a stone functioning as a milepost.
2. a significant event or stage in the life, progress, development, or the like of a person, nation, etc
The following is in the most emailed NY Times article today:
"Sociologists traditionally define the “transition to adulthood” as marked by five milestones: completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child.
In 1960, 77 percent of women and 65 percent of men had, by the time they reached 30, passed all five milestones. Among 30-year-olds in 2000, according to data from the United States Census Bureau, fewer than half of the women and one-third of the men had done so."
***
Interesting huh? and it's certainly true. I'm 26, 27 in January and I have completed three of the five milestones. In the next year, I would complete the fourth - marriage - but having a child? That's for sure after I'm 30. Despite what my paralegal Heather says. Haha.
But, I know plenty of people who are not even close to reaching the five milestones and there's nothing wrong with that either.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
rush hour
–noun
a time of day in which large numbers of people are in transit, as going to or returning from work, and that is characterized by particularly heavy traffic.
The #1 thing I do not miss from CA is traffic. I absolutely hate traffic. It really puts me in a bad mood and I can say it's one of my top 5 hated things.
According to my facebook news feed from last night and this morning, President Obama is in LA and the traffic there is 10x more horrible than usual. And usually, it's just plain horrible. So imagine that.
I am glad I am in Lincoln, NE where traffic is non-existent.
a time of day in which large numbers of people are in transit, as going to or returning from work, and that is characterized by particularly heavy traffic.
The #1 thing I do not miss from CA is traffic. I absolutely hate traffic. It really puts me in a bad mood and I can say it's one of my top 5 hated things.
According to my facebook news feed from last night and this morning, President Obama is in LA and the traffic there is 10x more horrible than usual. And usually, it's just plain horrible. So imagine that.
I am glad I am in Lincoln, NE where traffic is non-existent.
cou·pon
–noun
1. a portion of a certificate, ticket, label, advertisement, or the like, set off from the main body by dotted lines or the like to emphasize its separability, entitling the holder to something, as a gift or discount, or for use as an order blank, a contest entry form, etc.
2. a separate certificate, ticket, etc., for the same purpose.
I love coupons! I have saved probably thousands of dollars off of them. I highly recommend restaurant.com and groupon.com. If you sign up for groupon, sign up with me by clicking here.
When my boo and I went to Baltimore, we saved $75 at restaurants. You just buy a $25 or $50 gift certificate for a deeply discounted price. Sometimes 70-80% off from the typical price and as long as you follow the fine print, like spend over $35, excluding alcohol, at least 2 entrees...blah blah blah, then you get that much off! Sometimes they add the 18% tip before they give you the check and sometimes they don't add the tip and then I usually tip them 20% off the original bill anyway.
In Baltimore, we went to LP Steamers and had a dozen crabs and some crab dip. The bill was about $50, but we walked out of there only charging $25 on my card.
Another night we splurged and spent $100 not including taxes or tip on raw clams and oysters, Maine lobster, king crab legs, cocktail shrimp, crabcakes and bread pudding, but walked out of there just under $75 including a 20% tip and taxes.
For non-food coupons, Groupon has daily deals from haircuts to pedicures to exercise and cooking classes. The only catch is there has to be a minimum amount of people who sign up before the coupon is activated. Say the coupon for today requires 50 people to sign up. If by the end of the day, only 40 people sign up, then their credit card is not charged and they don't get the deal. But most groupons have hundreds if not over a thousand people signing up. It's crazy!
I also clip coupons from the Sunday paper and use it at grocery stores.
You would be surprise how much you save by just planning ahead and resisting the urge to impulse buy!
1. a portion of a certificate, ticket, label, advertisement, or the like, set off from the main body by dotted lines or the like to emphasize its separability, entitling the holder to something, as a gift or discount, or for use as an order blank, a contest entry form, etc.
2. a separate certificate, ticket, etc., for the same purpose.
I love coupons! I have saved probably thousands of dollars off of them. I highly recommend restaurant.com and groupon.com. If you sign up for groupon, sign up with me by clicking here.
When my boo and I went to Baltimore, we saved $75 at restaurants. You just buy a $25 or $50 gift certificate for a deeply discounted price. Sometimes 70-80% off from the typical price and as long as you follow the fine print, like spend over $35, excluding alcohol, at least 2 entrees...blah blah blah, then you get that much off! Sometimes they add the 18% tip before they give you the check and sometimes they don't add the tip and then I usually tip them 20% off the original bill anyway.
In Baltimore, we went to LP Steamers and had a dozen crabs and some crab dip. The bill was about $50, but we walked out of there only charging $25 on my card.
Another night we splurged and spent $100 not including taxes or tip on raw clams and oysters, Maine lobster, king crab legs, cocktail shrimp, crabcakes and bread pudding, but walked out of there just under $75 including a 20% tip and taxes.
For non-food coupons, Groupon has daily deals from haircuts to pedicures to exercise and cooking classes. The only catch is there has to be a minimum amount of people who sign up before the coupon is activated. Say the coupon for today requires 50 people to sign up. If by the end of the day, only 40 people sign up, then their credit card is not charged and they don't get the deal. But most groupons have hundreds if not over a thousand people signing up. It's crazy!
I also clip coupons from the Sunday paper and use it at grocery stores.
You would be surprise how much you save by just planning ahead and resisting the urge to impulse buy!
Monday, August 16, 2010
tip·ple
–verb (used without object)
1. to drink intoxicating liquor, esp. habitually or to some excess.
–verb (used with object)
2. to drink (intoxicating liquor), esp. repeatedly, in small quantities.
–noun
3. intoxicating liquor.
One of my favorite places in my new home is my bar. I bought my boo a kegerator for his birthday last month and I just bought a popcorn machine earlier today. We stocked up the bar and it's great my boo is a bartender (Friday nights only @ Harry's Wonder Bar, but 24/7 at 1608 Meadow Lark Road) haha.
He's been making amaretto sours for me... but tonight I had a root beer (schnapps) float. My future mother-in-law made the root beer schnapps by herself and gave us a bottle. and it tastes delicious!
I can't wait for my popcorn machine to come... then I'll start posting some pics.
But now, gotta go pop in a workout DVD and work this booze off.
1. to drink intoxicating liquor, esp. habitually or to some excess.
–verb (used with object)
2. to drink (intoxicating liquor), esp. repeatedly, in small quantities.
–noun
3. intoxicating liquor.
One of my favorite places in my new home is my bar. I bought my boo a kegerator for his birthday last month and I just bought a popcorn machine earlier today. We stocked up the bar and it's great my boo is a bartender (Friday nights only @ Harry's Wonder Bar, but 24/7 at 1608 Meadow Lark Road) haha.
He's been making amaretto sours for me... but tonight I had a root beer (schnapps) float. My future mother-in-law made the root beer schnapps by herself and gave us a bottle. and it tastes delicious!
I can't wait for my popcorn machine to come... then I'll start posting some pics.
But now, gotta go pop in a workout DVD and work this booze off.
whirl·wind
–verb (used without object)
1. to move or travel quickly.
I took last week off from work.
Saturday, I went to the Czech Festival in Wilbur, NE, the Czech capitol of the US with Margaret and Ben. Lot of accordions, people dressed up in old fashioned clothing, Czech beauty queens, dances and even a parade.
On our way to the festival, Margaret stopped by this old man's yard sale and I ended up getting $25 really nice cowboy boots. Cowboy and Indian House party at my house soon!
Then Sunday, Seth and I flew to Baltimore at 5 in the morning, checked into our very nice hotel and then went out and ate a dozen steamed crabs and explored Inner Harbor.
A little about our hotel - super nice people, free hot breakfast and hot dinner?! I have stayed at many hotels, and first hotel I have ever been to with free hot dinner and it was so good. Free shuttle within 5 miles (perfect for the airport, light rail stop and Amtrak)
Monday night, we went to the Oriels v. White Sox baseball game at Camden Yards and went to the pub nearby and grabbed a couple of beers. Dinner at the hotel was pulled pork sandwiches, corn, green beans, salad.
Tuesday night, we went and ate a feast at Phillips Seafood Harborhouse after we went out on the paddleboats (just like in 10 things I hate about you). We also had ricotta stuffed shells, mushrooms, salad at the hotel.
Wednesday Night we went to DC in the evening and walked around all night. We ate mexican at the hotel, chicken, steak, tortillas and tortilla chips, salad, etc.
Thursday night we flew back. McD's at the airport. Hollar.
Friday we closed on our house and we moved all the boxes out of our apt to the house. Some homecooking from the mother-in-law.
Saturday, Rouse came over and helped Seth move the furniture. We then went to Mongolian Grill, it's a buffet, only $11 a person and so good!
Sunday, we cleaned our apt and went to Ribfest. More yum yum in my tum tum.
and today, I'm back at work.
1. to move or travel quickly.
I took last week off from work.
Saturday, I went to the Czech Festival in Wilbur, NE, the Czech capitol of the US with Margaret and Ben. Lot of accordions, people dressed up in old fashioned clothing, Czech beauty queens, dances and even a parade.
On our way to the festival, Margaret stopped by this old man's yard sale and I ended up getting $25 really nice cowboy boots. Cowboy and Indian House party at my house soon!
Then Sunday, Seth and I flew to Baltimore at 5 in the morning, checked into our very nice hotel and then went out and ate a dozen steamed crabs and explored Inner Harbor.
A little about our hotel - super nice people, free hot breakfast and hot dinner?! I have stayed at many hotels, and first hotel I have ever been to with free hot dinner and it was so good. Free shuttle within 5 miles (perfect for the airport, light rail stop and Amtrak)
Monday night, we went to the Oriels v. White Sox baseball game at Camden Yards and went to the pub nearby and grabbed a couple of beers. Dinner at the hotel was pulled pork sandwiches, corn, green beans, salad.
Tuesday night, we went and ate a feast at Phillips Seafood Harborhouse after we went out on the paddleboats (just like in 10 things I hate about you). We also had ricotta stuffed shells, mushrooms, salad at the hotel.
Wednesday Night we went to DC in the evening and walked around all night. We ate mexican at the hotel, chicken, steak, tortillas and tortilla chips, salad, etc.
Thursday night we flew back. McD's at the airport. Hollar.
Friday we closed on our house and we moved all the boxes out of our apt to the house. Some homecooking from the mother-in-law.
Saturday, Rouse came over and helped Seth move the furniture. We then went to Mongolian Grill, it's a buffet, only $11 a person and so good!
Sunday, we cleaned our apt and went to Ribfest. More yum yum in my tum tum.
and today, I'm back at work.
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