yay us

We’re no longer in default on any of our student loans. *does a little dance* The new payments on Ted’s loan are a little higher than I hoped (like, $5 more than I hoped), but, well, we can handle $5. :) Yay us. :)

a nice weekend

It was a nice weekend. It was absolutely *beautiful* today, and Ted and I drove out to near Girdwood and biked the 6 mile old road (now a bike path) from Bird Point down to Girdwood, and then back again. It was a very nice ride. And we went shopping and went out to dinner and took a nap; I don’t remember the last time we spent a whole actual *day* together. It was really really nice. I forgot to tell the story about the car that stalled the other…

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morning

The morning so far: Chanti made a horrible, horrible mess of the kitchen last night. I cleaned up a lot of it this morning and then Ted finished, and mopped. She’d been outside several times, but she didn’t seem to want to go to the bathroom. Ted came in with her and said, “If you pee in the kitchen now, I’m going to beat you within an inch of your life.” So she peed on the carpet in the corner of the living room. In about 90 minutes, I’m going…

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biking

I wonder if 3:30 is a nice time to bail from work early and go bike riding. I think it is. Later.

oh goody

Oh goody. A tax bill from the state of California. I suppose the good news is it’s a hundred dollars or so less than I thought it would be. The bad news is we don’t have all that and a bag of chips to send them, of course. I guess I’ll send them half. This should be better, from their point of view, than a kick in the teeth with a frozen mukluk. Of course, from my point of view it’s a lot *like* a kick in the teeth with…

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