We've deferred replacing our torn up wood floor in our home for close to two years! We've been saving in case I lost my job, so we could at least stay in our house 6 months before we would have to move out.

I changed jobs in May, trying to get out of a "bad" situation, and may have put myself into a "worse" one.

My wife and I managed to have a very rare lunch together today, and she was ready to make some purchases (Crepe Myrtles to replace our nearly dead juniper out front, bedding plants for fall). I went ahead with the bedding plants, but the Crepe Myrtle is on hold 'till the spring.

She went looking for a Sony Clie today, because a friend at work had one. They have lots of medical reference info on the Clie, so my wife now wants one. But, when we were looking at them, she realized what $400 for one of those might mean later.

A month's groceries.

Glen Austin