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Italy Photos!

Here’s Italy…

Posted by Beks on November 5, 2010 at 12:00 PM in Spending Money | 4 Comments »
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Ireland Photos!

Before I lay the blow about our financial status… let me soften it with photos from our trip.

Today:

Ireland

Posted by Beks on November 4, 2010 at 7:50 PM in Spending Money | 7 Comments »
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The water heater died… and took my emergency fund with it.

Despite heroic efforts, my husband was unable to save our water heater. While re-routing the pipes, he found a crack in the tank caused by improper initial installation – or something like that. There were a lot of other words mixed in about ‘crappy two-bit plumbers’ so I gleaned what I could. He was surprised it lasted as long as it did with the extent of the damage.

I had long since gone to bed – he stopped appreciating my ‘help’ on plumbing projects years ago – when he crawled in sometime after 1am. He rubbed my arm, told me the water heater wasn’t fixable, and fell asleep.

Telling me I have to dive into my already nearly depleted emergency fund (more on that later) at bedtime is the equivalent to telling a 7 year old there are monsters under the bed – but worse.

I didn’t sleep a wink.

This week should be interesting… Will this be the first time we have more month than money?

Posted by Beks on November 2, 2010 at 8:11 PM in Home Ownership, Spending Money | 16 Comments »
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Dear Murphy – Please Move Out…

Murphy’s Law has moved in to our house.

First we had the damage done by our house sitter (update on that later), now we have a fickle water heater.

Our water heater has started leaking an excessive amount of water. If I lived in Kansas, perhaps leaking water wouldn’t be a problem – but I live in California. Forget oil, water is our liquid gold.

My plumber husband has been out in the garage for the last hour and a half trying to save our 5 year old water heater. All I keep hearing is, ‘I’ll get six more years out of you if it kills me!!’

I stay quiet and make a waterless dinner while he slams tools and torches the pipes. Halfway through cooking, he opened the garage door into the kitchen and shouted, ‘It’s a lot more fun to do this while you are getting PAID for it!’ then disappeared again.

We are $75 in the hole so far but I all I can think is…

Thank God I married a plumber – albeit a temporarily grouchy plumber.

Posted by Beks on November 1, 2010 at 9:04 PM in Home Ownership, Spending Money | 12 Comments »
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