I've found a group of people that I want to live with. I know them all from work, but if we were to get the house we're looking at, I'd be closer to work, closer to downtown, and closer to Lewis and Clark.
"Lewis and Clark? The university? Why does that matter, Dave?"
Great question. As it turns out, Celestino, the associate dean at Redlands who went off to become VP/Dean of Students at Carroll College is moving to Portland to be the Dean of Students at Lewis and Clark. Hopefully there will be a chance that I can have somewhat of a mentor in the Portland area again. Very exciting.
So about this house. It's great. A pool and spa that are both out of use, but I'm sure we could save the pool. It's got a daylight basement, TWO decks off the back side, and well, that's about it. But John, Leah, Tony, and I took a trip to go see it last night and creep around the backyard. Oh what fun it would be to live there with people and no longer by myself.
I spent about 3 hours this morning cooking food. I want to buy a new camera. That new camera costs bling. The sinkhole of my budget right now has been eating out. Bah. So I've started spending one night or morning a week cooking my food for the rest of the week. Simple enough - rosemary chicken and rice pilaf, cheese tortellini, more miso soup, and black rice pudding. In total, with about 25 bucks of groceries I'm fed for a week instead of the $132,000 it costs to eat out.
Next to trim down on....Alcohol.
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Right now, our entertainment budget is $50/month. This means, that unless I have a coupon for buy 1 entree, get 1 free, we get to eat out once a week. Eating in saves money. So does not having kids, but I don't recommend that one.
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