Christmas is home!
on Dec 6, 2008 in Stuff we like decor house Christmas splurge After having John and Sherry from This Young House help me convince Eric that we needed a tree, he obliged and we went shopping today. It’s our first Christmas living together so we had NOTHING! It’s a bit of an expense this year, but

Friday is for food - (Very) Frugal Garlic Soup
on Dec 5, 2008 in Uncategorized   Well, this is our first real post and we’re late writing it! We meant to have it ready days ago, but nothing is getting done around here on time lately. This is our post for “Friday is for food” over at Almost Frugal Food.

We’re back
on Dec 4, 2008 in Us After the saddest days of my life, we’re back. My grandma didn’t have enough strength left in her to battle the pneumonia that appeared in her second day in hospital, and then a multiple organ failure took her away from us. It was extr

Not now, Grandma
on Nov 19, 2008 in Uncategorized My dad’s mum has lived with my parents the last 19 years. So basically, until I moved out 4 months ago, I lived with her too. She was admitted in hospital yesterday. A clot in her brain, fluid in her lungs. If you pray, pray for her.  IR

Volunteering
on Nov 13, 2008 in Us angry mad rant volunteering I’m so angry I don’t know where to start.  I got a call last week from an NGO I’ve collaborated with before offering my interpreting services for free and later finding out that that congress had a high budget that was spent

Alexander Technique
on Nov 10, 2008 in Stuff we like Us Alexander classes pain As you may or may not know, I am an interpreter. Well, I’m a translator and interpreter, but some day I would like to ditch that first part and work exclusively interpreting. Yeah, girl, keep dreaming. Anyway, when I saw that there was going to.

We decided on the entry wall!
on Nov 10, 2008 in Stuff we like decor house money Apartment Therapy home style The Cure wall stickers This Apartment Therapy Cure has made us more conscious about all the unfinished projects around the house, and the entryhall was a tough one for us. After much thinking we decided not to paint for now. It’d be a waste (in our frugal opinion) to.