Are you ready for Thanksgiving? Do you have Thanksgiving plans? This year, I’m going over to my parents’ house, and we’ll be celebrating with more family members than usual. I’ve been tasked with bringing two desserts this year, up from my usual one, because of all the guests, and I am thrilled. I’m vacillating between a pumpkin bundt cake, a Nutella no-bake cheesecake, or an apple pie. I already Continue Reading
How to Prepare for Black Friday
Just going to put this on the table: I actually love Black Friday. I am really, really excited for it. Oh no, I don’t actually go outside for Black Friday – Black Friday for me is basically everyone else’s Cyber Monday. However, I have learned that Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are virtually the same, which is why nowadays, it’s easier than ever to just shop online and avoid the crazy Black Continue Reading
Choose Your Candy Calories Wisely!
Happy day before Halloween, all my fellow Halloween-celebrators out there! Have I mentioned that Halloween is one of my favorite holidays? Mostly because I love candy, costumes, and giving children candy. I particularly like giving the kids candy because that means it’s no longer in my house, tempting me with its sweet sugary goodness. I have a huge sweet tooth (it takes Continue Reading
When Your Coworkers Hate the Holidays
The other day, as I was walking back from the break room to my cube, I overheard a co-worker say ‘don’t tell me what to do with my daughter at Halloween!’ The right thing to do would have been to hurry back to my desk, but that’s not what I did. My first reaction? Ooooo snap, that guy just opened a can of worms! The guy at work who innocuously asked why our coworker wasn’t Continue Reading
Is Marriage Irrelevant?
A recent Pew Research study showed that more and more millennials are putting off marriage. The average age of a married couple is now 27 for women and 29 for men, up from 20 and 23, respectively, in 1960. That is, if couples end up getting married at all – In 2012, 32% of men and 25% of women had never been married by age 35. Is Marriage Irrelevant, or Are There Other Factors to Continue Reading
7 Steps for Surviving a Flood in Your House (Financially)
In case you hadn’t heard, on Wednesday night, B and I came home to a flood in our house. Not, surprisingly, from the flood that happened two weeks ago, but actually from a burst water pipe in our laundry room. As of now, we are still waiting for our insurance to send out someone to assess the damage, which means it’s nearly been a week that we've been dealing with a completely torn up Continue Reading
Visiting Downtown Phoenix
If you’ve ever traveled to Phoenix, or have known people who’ve visited Phoenix, they may tell you it’s impossible to get around without a car. Heck, even I have been guilty of saying it’s impossible to get around Phoenix without a car. Before we get ahead of ourselves: if you’re moving to Phoenix for the long term, it probably will be pretty hard to live here without a car. So that Continue Reading
Ways to Get Around Portland With Limited Mobility
As you may know from my several awesome Portland posts, I went to Portland two weeks ago! First of all – time flies. Second of all, can I go back? Seriously, I love Portland that much. Loving Portland aside, I went up to Portland with my Dad as a father/daughter bonding trip. As I mentioned, my Dad is getting older and this is probably one of the last times we will be able to travel Continue Reading
Traveling on a Budget: Where to Stay
I feel like most people's dream is to go traveling around the world with one of The PNW packable backpacks on their back and not a care in the world... Unfortunately, not all of us have got the wealth to achieve the dream of traveling. If you do it then it's budgeting all the way. Let’s face it: sometimes the most expensive part of travel is finding a cheap place to stay. When traveling on a Continue Reading
Shopaholic Friends
This past month, I had some shopaholic friends from out of town visit. Now, if you read my About Me page, you’ll notice I mentioned I had a ‘problem’ with shopping. It wasn’t ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ problem (I didn’t go into crazy amounts of debt), but I did go into some consumer debt, and I didn’t really have a lot to show for it. Sure, I had a killer closet and was the girl who always had Continue Reading
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