I'm sitting on the couch, wishing I could have a second cup of coffee, watching The Rachel Maddow Show. Watching that terrible story about the dead census worker with "FED" allegedly scrawled on his chest. I hope it doesn't turn out to be an anti-government hate crime. There's been lots of crazy treasonous talk in some parts of the media lately that really scares me.
I woke up several times last night, so even though I got 7 or 8 hours of sleep, I feel a bit out of it.
AS is sewing a dress for a (male) friend of ours who wants to dress up like Marilyn Monroe and sing happy birthday at his friend's party tonight. NT is off to hfavorite music store with a friend, and after that they're going to pick me and AS up so we can go over to his house, hang out with him + wife & kids, go out to lunch, and take a look at a kids dresser and crib they're willing to give us if we like them. (We've actually been offered at least three cribs by various people, but this will be the first one we look at.)
AS and I surprised NT with $40 of our spending money to buy CDs. We've been wishing he had more guy friends with similar interests, like he used to in England, so we were going to give him the money and suggest he go out with this guy. Lo and behold a couple days before, they made plans to go to the music store not even knowing about our plan! LOL. But the money still surprised him. He's also been going out for bike rides with another guy friend, so that's good.
I also spontaneously treated AS and NT to dinner and a drink out last night. $60 and worth every penny. I had some unspent money from past weeks, and on the way home from work I was just so glad these two weeks without my boss were over, and thinking how we won't be able to just spontaneously go out to a bar next year 
, and thinking how we only ever go out to eat if other people invite us. So we went to a nice microbrewery/restaurant nearby. It was weird to be out in the city at night! So many people were out--the restaurant was packed--and I could remember when going out every weekend night, dropping a lot more than $60, was pretty much taken for granted. This was nicer because it felt special, and we really appreciated having food prepared and brought to us, and getting a chance to chat with each other for a couple hours without having chores, or cooking, or the distractions of TV or Internet.
I'm writing this on my little $150 netbook, which I bought a couple months ago because our laptop's been acting up. We've thought about getting the laptop repaired, but probably it'll be better to just get a new one. So we're slowly trying to raise $1000. NT's been doing Pinecone surveys, and we've got six coats listed on eBay. The auctions are up tomorrow. 2 don't have any watchers, so I'm not sure how we'll do, but we'll make a bit. We'll be going to the Mall of America in a couple weeks once AS gets an Old Navy gift card from MyPoints,so we'll take a necklace of hers with a tiny diamond and see if the pawn shop there will give us anything (our nearby pawn shop would only give us $30, so we want to check somewhere else first).
Our couch is now covered with a blanket because it's so threadbare and stained. AS's mom has bought us fabric, as well as some curtain fabric, but has been flaking out for 6+ months on actually mailing it. So we may buy a couch before a laptop once we raise the money; depends on which is driving us crazier. Oh, and one of the burners on our 16-year-old stove has stopped working, so that's on our radar too! LOL. Hard to know what to save up for first!
Got my first big bill from my doctor's office this week: $1012 for my first visit, blood testing and "OB contract"! Yowch! At this rate, I'll be cutting it close as to whether my remaining HSA funds plus the $100 extra I hold aside each month in checking will cover the remainder of 2009 expenses. But, we'll find the money elsewhere if we need to.
Well, I should go finish getting ready before NT and our friend come back to pick us up!
Sleepy Saturday morning
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