My wife really enjoys the above the road feeling of an SUV, however, our mileage, is poor, compared to alternatives - about 19.x miles per gallon for substantial highway driving.
It seems that what she should have is a smaller commuter car that's safe, drives well and obtains better gas mileage, however, I wonder if any of those fit the raised view of the road.
Maybe a raised view will become less important as many light weight trucks and SUVs sit idle due to high gasoline prices? I don't see any alternatives. I wonder if this interest is behind seeing so many suburban house wives driving physically large (manly looking)SUVs?
We're looking at the honda civic hybrid, but the performance of other hybrids has been quite poor - so we're skeptical that this one will work out. We should know next week.
Regards,
makingourway
Showing posts with label spouses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spouses. Show all posts
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Over $5000 in expensive furniture
We've been in the new house for a few months, finally having finished unpacking, organizing, re-organizing and unexpectedly repairing things. We're more or less settled.
However, we really don't have the house properly furnished.
Shortly after moving in we splurged and spent $2000 on family room furniture. It works quite nicely.
The dining room is already furnished and our living room, which we don't really use, is awkwardly furnished (old couch).
Here's what we have left to do:
Two of the bedrooms: our son's and the master bedroom need to be refurnished.
Finished basement
Living Room
Office (ordered today)
Today, we just placed an order to furnish my office.
It's been a massive pet peeve for my wife. My office has far too many gadgets and things scattered without a proper home. Also, it looks very basic, graduate school-like. Certainly not in a good fit for the expensie new home.
Since we etertain alot and few of my wife's associates understand what I do for a living, haveing an impressive office seems to be the lasting impression they absorb. Consequently she wants it to look nice. It's amazing how critical a detailed oriented woman can be.
I secretly have always wanted nice office furniture, but constitutionally could not stomache the expense. After much disappointing research - pressboard products from office warehouse stores, Costco unable to meet our interests, my wife finally found home library furniture on-line.
The default configuration didn't work for us - there went the $2,500 promotion. After figuring out what would (including measuring and charting it out), I determined the ideal configuration - that's when $5,000 happened. I felt sick thinking about it.
But as I thought of the alternatives - crap furniture form an Office Max or Office Depot or nice furniture with insufficient breadth of options from Costco I decided to compare the compromise prise of $2500 with the ideal price of $5000. Is it worth spending $2500 now to spend twice as much two years later? I decided to go for the ideal.
I'd like to avoid dipping into my cash reserves or non-retirement investments to pay for it, however, I'm not sure which funds I'll use just yet.
We'll have to wait and see. It's a bit stressful, but my wife will be pretty happy.
After placing the order, the next question she asked me was whether they had bedroom furniture. I asked her if she would mind waiting to see what service and actual furniture quality are like before ordering more. I think she agreed.
Well, I might have dug myself deeper into the hole, but at least I'll by working in a nicer environment (I spend 30 - 60 hours a week in my office).
Regards, makingourway
However, we really don't have the house properly furnished.
Shortly after moving in we splurged and spent $2000 on family room furniture. It works quite nicely.
The dining room is already furnished and our living room, which we don't really use, is awkwardly furnished (old couch).
Here's what we have left to do:
Two of the bedrooms: our son's and the master bedroom need to be refurnished.
Finished basement
Living Room
Office (ordered today)
Today, we just placed an order to furnish my office.
It's been a massive pet peeve for my wife. My office has far too many gadgets and things scattered without a proper home. Also, it looks very basic, graduate school-like. Certainly not in a good fit for the expensie new home.
Since we etertain alot and few of my wife's associates understand what I do for a living, haveing an impressive office seems to be the lasting impression they absorb. Consequently she wants it to look nice. It's amazing how critical a detailed oriented woman can be.
I secretly have always wanted nice office furniture, but constitutionally could not stomache the expense. After much disappointing research - pressboard products from office warehouse stores, Costco unable to meet our interests, my wife finally found home library furniture on-line.
The default configuration didn't work for us - there went the $2,500 promotion. After figuring out what would (including measuring and charting it out), I determined the ideal configuration - that's when $5,000 happened. I felt sick thinking about it.
But as I thought of the alternatives - crap furniture form an Office Max or Office Depot or nice furniture with insufficient breadth of options from Costco I decided to compare the compromise prise of $2500 with the ideal price of $5000. Is it worth spending $2500 now to spend twice as much two years later? I decided to go for the ideal.
I'd like to avoid dipping into my cash reserves or non-retirement investments to pay for it, however, I'm not sure which funds I'll use just yet.
We'll have to wait and see. It's a bit stressful, but my wife will be pretty happy.
After placing the order, the next question she asked me was whether they had bedroom furniture. I asked her if she would mind waiting to see what service and actual furniture quality are like before ordering more. I think she agreed.
Well, I might have dug myself deeper into the hole, but at least I'll by working in a nicer environment (I spend 30 - 60 hours a week in my office).
Regards, makingourway
Monday, February 12, 2007
Dating apart - long distance relationships
My friend the doctor called asking me to help him brainstorm methods to keep momentum in his evolving (at this moment purely on-line) relationship moving forward.
He met his sweetheart on jdate and can't wait to see her two months from now.
He finds her wonderful, attractive and excellent company - I'm very excited for him!
However, she's very far away. They can't pursue the everyday intreractions that most would be able to pursue if they were physically together. His challenge: how to keep interest growing to help bring about their eventual in person meeting.
After a bit of thinking we created the following virtual dating list. Oddly, after we created the list I had an epiphany, but I'll get to that after the list:
He met his sweetheart on jdate and can't wait to see her two months from now.
He finds her wonderful, attractive and excellent company - I'm very excited for him!
However, she's very far away. They can't pursue the everyday intreractions that most would be able to pursue if they were physically together. His challenge: how to keep interest growing to help bring about their eventual in person meeting.
After a bit of thinking we created the following virtual dating list. Oddly, after we created the list I had an epiphany, but I'll get to that after the list:
- see a movie and discuss it over the phone
- backgammon and other on-line casual games at yahoo or msn
- read a book and discuss a different chapter every day
- second life
- everquest ii or world of warcraft etc… don’t push this one too hard – may backfire and she'll think you're a geek
- get a web cam to see each other when you talk online via skype
- play 21 questions
- 5 things no one knows about me
- do some surveys together
- do the personality profile survey together to learn psychological compatibilities (ala please understand)
- you can plan FL vacation together (keep doing it if already started)
- cyber sex - concern that it would grow old before the real sex happened
So there's our list. What would you add to it? I know that some of my readers have had long distance relationships ($2M for one - being a travelling man at times). What can you recommend to keep the excitement in a long distance relationship? I am curious and my friend would be very grateful for your advice and recommendations.
Now here's the epiphany. Mr. makingourway is spending 3-5 days a week on the road. He sees his wife on weekends and some times during the week. Is his marriage turning into a long distance relationship? Should the makingourway's be trying the items on the list? That was my epiphany.
Regards, makingourway
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
How would you explain this to your spouse...
While on an out of town trip with a collague, she accidentally dented her new SUV. More specifically, she was not looking and dented the door and quarter panel against a concrete wall.
The vehicle is drivable, but the damage is clearly visible and not very attractive. Part of the stripping has been knocked off and the dent is noticable.
She's concerned that her spouse will consider her careless if she tells him she did it because she didn't see the concrete wall - which is what happened.
Should she tell the truth or embellish the story? It was snowing and icey out.
What would you do?
Regards,
makingourway
The vehicle is drivable, but the damage is clearly visible and not very attractive. Part of the stripping has been knocked off and the dent is noticable.
She's concerned that her spouse will consider her careless if she tells him she did it because she didn't see the concrete wall - which is what happened.
Should she tell the truth or embellish the story? It was snowing and icey out.
What would you do?
Regards,
makingourway
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