Aaremin’s Table

That infamous summer desert heat – yeah I’ll blame it on that.  Cause it certainly hasn’t been cause I’ve been playing Star Wars Galaxies, Everquest 2, watching Voyager and various little things.  Horrible and no excuse, I need to post more!

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Frugal/budget wise, doing ok I think.  Still getting into the swing of Not buying every time we go somewhere.  Our first full month electric bill was waaay higher than we anticipated – that’s when I learned that off peak doesn’t mean free – I need to turn things off at night! (after he’d go to work, every light in the apartment would stay on, two computers in the hub room and one laptop in the living room etc etc).    After making a concerted effort, our bill went down for the next month, even though our temperatures soared and the ac ran almost all the time.  So that’s good   Also the upside to the maintenance guy being my darling’s dad – every time another apartment gets some form of upgrade/fix, so do we.  And that goes the other way around.  We’re looking into gettting a programmable thermostat to better see the temp (that silly red bar I can’t tell to read the top, middle or bottom) so that just might help our savings as well – and the apartment complex will pay for it (and if it works out, probably have them installed in all the units).

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Food – doing good with that too.  Trying to cook more, but as anyone who’s lived in the desert can tell ya, the desire to turn on the oven when its hot goes waaaay down.  But stove top, toaster oven and microwave still get used (I actually made cookies in my toaster oven hehe).  We’ve even hosted a bbq here with darling’s parents (I’ve never cleaned so much before that heh).  Our little space has become quite the home.

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well I think that’s all for now, I know I’m forgetting something heh..