What I'm reading: Captivating, by John and Stasi Eldredge. There's a post about this book in comparison with another book brewing in my head...
What we're spending on: I'm trying to get a couple new items for my wardrobe so I'm sufficiently stylin' in NYC in a couple weeks!
What we're saving for: king-size mattresses. STILL. It's just not incredibly easy to set aside $2,000+. Even when you piece-meal it. Can you tell we want to pay cash for everything? We paid for our wedding with cash, and it's so clear to us that this is the way to go for any large purchase.
What I need to do: send the rest of the wedding thank-you notes. STILL. I got the first half of the thank-you notes done, but that little victory became a little excuse to procrastinate doing the rest of them. Get some Christmas shopping done, at least on paper (who gets what, budgets, stores, coupon codes for online shopping, etc).
What I'm thinking about: a couple of really intense things, and also a couple of really non-intense things, like the spaghetti sauce bubbling in the crockpot right now. It is calling my name! Do you ever feel like your brain is layered, and it's easier to stay on the surface and think about the mostly trivial, because sometimes it's so exhausting to dig -- and think -- deeper?
What I'm working on: daily upkeep of the house. I hate how a couple days of neglect is so visible in our home! I'm not talking dishes or anything, just the general whatnot that accumulates: mail, sweaters, books, magazines, gym bags, shoes, borrowed items to be returned, items just-bought that need homes, etc. Clutter makes me crazy!
What I'm happy about: going to NYC for Thanksgiving, then the almost 2 weeks I have off around Christmas to spend in Indiana and Michigan. I love travel, I love time with family, and (usually) I love the holidays! I can't believe it's the middle of November and we're so very close to shutting down 2008 forever. It boggles my mind to think of how drastically (and quickly!) my life has changed in a year. This time last year, I was single, living in Indiana, working a job I didn't like, commuting sometimes 2 hours a day, and long-distance dating Marty. Now I'm happily married, I work from home at a job I mostly enjoy, I live in Tennessee, and I get to see my beloved every day! God amazes me at how He makes my dreams come true.
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By the by, when you're here next (soon, very soon, I hope!) I'll loan you my Shauni Feldman (sp?) books, one called 10 Things Men Wish Women knew and then one about women for men. They sound trite, very Bridget-Jones-Part-1, but actually they offer some really good perspectives on relationships. They aren't "how-to" books, more like "understand-and-rejoice-in."
I'm a work-at-home-wife, too! What do you do to make $$ at home?? Enjoying your blog.
~Kristy @ Homemakers Cottage
Hi Kristy,
I'm a medical editor for a CRO, which is basically a middle-man between pharmaceuticals and folks who do lots of the nitty-gritty pharmaceutical reporting work, like writers and editors and such. It sounds boring, but I've been doing this job for over 5 years now, and most days I love it!
Thanks for the comment and for visiting my blog!
Good for you paying cash for things!!!!! It does take a long time to save and it's so hard to wait!!!
Hi, Becky!
You commented on my blog (rmfo-blogs.com/karibeth) back over the summer, and I thought I had responded somewhere, but I was going through some things and couldn't find a response either on my blog or yours. I think because you asked me which Jane Eyre version I liked best and I wanted to give the question the proper response. I like the Masterpiece Theater one from a couple of years ago a whole lot. I saw the Timothy Dalton one a long time ago, and it's very good, too. Which ones do you like best?
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