Yes Ma’am I would like another $600 check

Saturday we attended a cookout for all the Appalachian Village families (the village is the name for the married housing units here at ABC). Yes, that’s right, we attended a cookout for the village people. We’re not too good at the YMCA but we do throw a pretty mean cookout. We roasted hotdogs for dinner and marshmallows for s’mores afterward. Several of the families were flabbergasted that someone had brought pink marshmallows. They appeared to be strawberry flavored but 9/10 taste buds beg to differ. The flavor might have resembled a marshmallow truck full of pine tree air fresheners crashing with a train of strawberry milkshake whoppers on a hot day. One person from the cookout is quoted as saying “this just tastes wrong.” Now I don’t want to discourage any of our readers from doing their own taste-test of these peculiar deserts because life is just too short not to try the pink marshmallows. Maybe pink marshmallows are up there with caviar. It’s worth one try but don’t let people fool you into thinking it’s is delicious--it’s not. Saying it tastes good is just everyone’s way to not feel like an idiot for spending a lot of money on salty fish eggs.

You might say that I’ve become a little paranoid since our accident several days ago, so today when some lady in a silver eclipse decided to draft me all the way to Wal Mart I was significantly nervous. Some might say I’m crazy for worrying about it. Others, like Katie, would take a slightly more optimistic view saying “just let her hit us we could use another $600 check.” But me, I stick to my paranoia. She did not hit us after all, just left a dent in my otherwise sane mind.

Since we don’t expect any more mystery checks we have been watching our spending very carefully. As soon as the book list came out we snagged a copy and started buying my books at half.com instead of the school bookstore. On the four books we have purchased so far we spent $48; if we had bought them at the bookstore we would have spent $150. How’s that for thrifty? Makes me wonder what else we could buy used online for cheaper….I’ve always thought underwear was very overpriced.

To bring in some money while we wait for jobs we have started listing things on eBay. This week we have only put two things up just to see how it works out. It’s something we would like to continue doing to help offset the cost of tuition and school books, so we are praying it turns out well. Ladies, we have listed a quilt table topper that Katie spent about 5 hours making this week. If anybody wants to support us this is a convenient way to do so. You can go directly to the page on eBay by clicking the picture below.



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