Archive for August, 2007
OurFirstMarriage #22: How Green is Your Wedding?
Tom and Tanel begin the episode talking about their upcoming trip to Turkey, Tom brings up their trip to the mall playground, an evaluation of a birthday party they went to, they pass through a brief awkward transition and on to “green” weddings and other wedding faux pass. Tom reveals the first time he ever [...]
OurFirstMarriage #21: But Anyway
This episode we tackle cleaning – not our best subject. We talk about the importance of it including a review of Flylady.net (a site that proports to help you do just that). Tom requests a better smelling wife, we talk about sending the kids to camp, allowances, and Tanel’s new plan for organizing our house. [...]
Comments on OurFirstMarriage
When I set up this web page it was set so that you had to be logged in and registered in order to post a comment. I changed that recently so that anyone could comment. After what can only be described as an obscene amount of spam, I’ve changed it back. The logging in seems [...]
Public vs private school
You know, I’m not exactly sure what’s better. All I know is that we are currently struggling to pay our bills so I don’t see any way that we can continue to have Noah in private school when he gets to kindergarten age next year – unless I go back to working full-time that is. [...]
OurFirstMarriage #20: Jobs
We discuss our job situation and some of the decisions we’ve made in order to spend more time with our children. Tom shares some of the satanic bosses he’s worked for and some of the techniques he’s used to manage them. We discuss tattoos, how persistence will get you the job eventually, how big gestures [...]
Using our frequent flier miles
Tom and I have been saving frequent flier miles since we got married. I also had saved some up before we got married. So that’s about 8 years of miles. We charge everything, and by that I mean EVERYTHING, on the American Express and pay it off every month. We’ve had enough miles to go [...]
