December 21, 2009
Posted by Lauren
…to be on the brink.
The brink of finding just the right gift. Of having just enough time. Of just getting it all done.
For me and Kirk, we’re on the brink of titanic change. In addition to the usual holiday madness, we’re shedding jobs and gaining boarding passes. Moving out of a two [...]
January 13, 2009
Posted by Lauren
This morning I woke up like any other morning: to the smashing tune of the dog upstairs banging his rawhide bone on the wood floors. Kirk turns over, sighs, and my blood starts to simmer. City condo living? Not always idyllic.
After a half hour, I’m out of bed, on the living room [...]
October 9, 2008
Posted by Lauren
So after much deliberation, Kirk and I decided against throwing caution to the wind — AKA $3,000 into a fixer-upper sailboat sitting on the shores of Indiana — and instead agreed to hang on to caution, that unexciting, yet sensible, and ultimately comforting ideal.
Like the proverbial cliff jump, after your foot leaves the edge, will [...]
September 30, 2008
Posted by Lauren
Future = Life(at present + 1)
Life(at present + 1) = Plan x Money(generally) x (at present)
Plan = finish condo rehab* + rent condo** + buy sailboat*** + go to Australia****
* by spring
** by May
*** during summer ‘09
**** next fall
Money(generally) = bane of existence
Money(at present) = ?
? = as good as a mathematical zero
So….
Future = [...]
