Okay, okay, I can tell you now!

[conuly]

JENN GOT A NEW JOB!

We aren't out of the hole yet, but with this new source of income we can start paying off all our old bills, including the mortgage. (And the gas, and the electric, and the phone and cable, and the godawful water bill, and the bay window roofs, and the main roof, and the plumbing....) I'm still going to be budgeting our menu pretty tightly (well, with a few exceptions for lamb tonight and pecan pie at some point in the future) and looking for my own paying work, but this helps. A LOT.

On that note, is it wrong of me, when in the grocery store, to consider getting jelly or pickles or spaghetti sauce based on the jars? I put everything in jars - beans, rice, oats, spices - and I can always use more of them, especially larger sizes, but I don't usually need to buy the things that come in jars, which is a problem. I oughta ask on freecycle.

Comments

[siderea]

Oh, phew!!!

Re jars: can't you just rummage the neighbors' recycling bins?

[conuly]

I feel skeevy enough poking through their cardboard to get the box tops. I guess I *could*, but if I were going to do that it'd be better to just ask them directly.

[siderea]

Oh, well. If you want to drain all the excitement out of it, sure.

[conuly]

I'd rather have them think I'm crazy than think I'm even crazier than they already think.

[conuly]

Also, sometimes I want pretty jars, and my neighbors, not shopping based on how the jars look, don't usually have those.

(Wanting pretty jars is totally reasonable. Isn't it?)

[siderea]

I have no idea. You're talking to the woman who wrote a fan note to Folgers for their new ergonomic plastic instant coffee canister. I am so not in a position to judge. Validate maybe, but not judge.

[conuly]

How are they going to know how awesome it is if you don't tell them it changed your life?