Do you treat yourself?

I thought that the timing of this post was quite relevant, as I sit here at my kitchen table, typing away and eating Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream    I can feel the beginnings of a chest cough creeping up on me, so in addition to cough medicine, I thought that [...]

Remember budget decorating???

OK, breathe…breathe… Do you all remember the post from a couple of days ago when I said it was just a great idea to accept used items from friends and family if you are decorating on a budget? Here is a picture of the rather nice couch my parents generously donated to my cause (sorry [...]

Drugs…they’re not all bad, but they sure cost an arm and a leg…

This is a pretty good representation of how I was feeling when my family doctor recommended that I start taking Effexor for my newly diagnosed depression. I’m one of those people who delighted in NEVER being sick; I’d buy a bottle of cough medicine or a pack of throat lozenges, and they’d frequently expire before [...]

Decorating on a budget!

I recently joined the ranks of the working world, after spending *cough* years in university; yay, me! I als0 decided to get myself into the quintessential 20-something single woman housing situation; a 1-bedroom apartment, sans roommate. I’ve lived in apartments before, but have always had a roommate, and have never been a money-earning, non-student with [...]