The feast begins

Most people reading this know that Dad and I are grad students, which means we are not rich. Now, this is not to say that we are totally flat broke, as we are able to support our moderate Starbucks habit and our rock-and-roll lifestyle here in Seattle, which has to be one of the priciest cities in the country. But unfortunately this does mean we live paycheck-to-paycheck. We get two paychecks per month from the University, one of the "10th" and the other on the "25th" of the month. We lovingly refer to these paychecks as our Feast and Famine paychecks, respectively. This is because our two most outrageous expenses, rent and childcare (which, by the way, add up to more than $1800) are both due on the 1st of the month. Because we are budgeting-handicapped, this of course means that we have no spending money whatsoever from our Famine paycheck, and an enormous plentiful cashwad with the Feast paycheck. This last month, we were particularly good and actually managed to budget a bit, but I was getting very tired of eating TV dinners and chips and salsa, lemme tell you. We went to Sam's Club today and spent some of our gorgeous loads of money restocking the fridge. I am so excited about our new eats that I have to share:

There is just something so uplifting, thinking that I get to eat fresh, delicious sandwiches and yummy nutritious apples now, instead of microwaving those awful Chunky Soups. There's only so much of those one can eat without envisioning such soup as repackaged Alpo. Anyway, sorry for the off-topic post -- I just had to share the joy that is 20+ cups of Yoplait in my fridge.