{"id":3931,"date":"2009-02-11T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2009-02-13T07:24:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T14:24:15","slug":"making-lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/making-lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"

We knew it would come.\u00c2\u00a0 We just figured we had until the contract ended in a month.\u00c2\u00a0 Turns out, things went a bit faster than planned.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank goodness Paul obsesses over Quicken<\/span> we’re thrifty.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So we’re on Day Two of no billable hours for Paul, and predicting this will reach into a third day… or more.<\/p>\n

No demonstrable household income* = Lemons<\/p>\n

Having some time to work on the house = Lemonade!<\/p>\n

Like getting back to the front yard, which we hadn’t seen in a long while.\u00c2\u00a0 Weeding, top soil, mulch… and it’s a different place all together.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember us bricking in the plant beds?<\/a> Time to finally get those last bags of concrete and mortar off the porch!\u00c2\u00a0 A few more days and the middle bed will be done.<\/p>\n

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We used our child labor to help on weed control.<\/p>\n

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We haven’t forgotten about that 4+ year and going renovation in the back!\u00c2\u00a0 More on that soon.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just too overwhelming to get into tonight.<\/p>\n

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*No demonstrable income, meaning, nothing that we really can speak for or give strong evidence towards… as opposed to the little spurts of cash I bring in.\u00c2\u00a0 Some good news, though: I was recently offered a summer adjunct position to teach in the School of Social Work.\u00c2\u00a0 And a grant project I was written into as a consultant was funded.\u00c2\u00a0 So it’s not like I’m a total loss?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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