Resurgence of the board game

We hung out with our friends Chris&Christina last night down the street. We played Scategories and drank heavily, discussed the shit economy, pondered the documentary Cocaine Cowboys, and planned for a spring cycling trip to Madison. It was more fun than most nights out.  At the apartment, Mark and I have Trivia Pursuit and Monopoly, [...]

Which is worse

I hopped in the shower last night to find it sprinkled with a light dusting of pubic hair courteousy of my husband, who had, you know, done some trimming down there.I told him to  clean it. He refused, stating he would be starting a pube bathtub for us to swim in. To his credit, he [...]

How ghetto am I, on a scale of 1 to 10?

My husband Mark found a bottle of wine on the street. Yellow Tail. Shiraz. It had fallen out of someone’s car, apparently, and was nestled in the snow. It is now Friday night and I am drinking it. How ghetto am I, on a scale of 1 to 10?

Sex addicts in the neighborhood

To entertain ourselves the other day, Mark and I did a search for sex criminals in our neighborhood. Well there are plenty of those. And they all look absolutely creepy. Just looking at each picture I thought, “Well, you would be a sex criminal, wouldn’t you?”
I’m sure you stumbled upon this post because the word [...]

Smile-off ends in job

I had an interview for an office job through a temp agency the other day. I spoke with an administrator, who’d be my boss, and after that, a spunky  gal who works as a surgeon’s secretary. I’d be doing her job when she took a day off or a vacation. She works for the chief of the [...]

Taking advantage of being a broke ass. Or, things to do when you’re down and out

There are actually perks to being down and out. Here are a few:
1. Reduced rates- We applied for a scholarship at our neighborhood YMCA. Because we look down and out at present, we will likely get a greatly reduced or free 6 month membership.
2. Free food. When we meet tomorrow with the Department of Human [...]

Throw a Link Card into my budget. I’m not Recession Proof

I took a look at our finances today. Yes, it’s quite dire. My newlywed boo Mark and I should be able to squeeze by for the rest of this month…barely. We have only $450 in our shared banking account. When I add in the checks that I’ll receive from my freelance copy writing gig, my [...]

Four-ingredient budget recipe: Salsa Mac. Do. It. Now.

This recipe is delicious for a winter day. Very few ingredients make a TON of food. Healthy? Not terribly. Serve with a side veggie to ease your conscience. Oh is this good. Really really good. This is also from Mark’s ma’s cookbook. She gave me a bunch of recipes all organized in a binder for [...]

Nude job search and…btw, we have gone completely soft.

I’m considering taking my clothes off for cash at this point. At an art class. I called an art center in my neighborhood to see if they needed models. What inspired this was a colleague of mine at the grocery store, who was a nude model careerist before taking up the grocery biz. She made [...]

5-ingredient budget recipe!

My jobless hubs Mark and my freelance budget self are trying to stick to a cash-only, recession food budget. I want to share a budget recipe his mom passed along.  I say it’s budget because it has only 5 (!) ingredients!
I gave the dish a new name, below. Our economy might be going to hell, [...]