thanks for commenting on my blog.
Just wondering how are you finding being “car less”. Do you miss the convenience of being able to pop out anytime you feel like it?
For us so far, rather surprisingly, it’s working out OK. Or at least for me, the wife isn’t back till Sat from America (yeah only two [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Hey Frugal Trenches
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Car no Car?
Posted in Other on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I finally sat down tonight and calcuated how much we still owe on the car. 10 payments (yes) and one large ballon payment (ouch)
Bottom line we need 7500 to pay it off plus fees (about another 500)
To keep the payment the same we would need to do a 4 year loan, something I’m hesitant to [...]
When you don’t have a car….
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ll get back to the comments on Women as Elders in a bit, having the car impounded has distracted me a bit.
Three things I learned today when you don’t have a car.
1. You spend less money, alot less money
2. You get a ton of excercise!
3. Cars are very very convient
It’s a tough call, in [...]
Car got impounded last night
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
unfortunately my luck ran out last night and the police impounded the car. I’ve been driving for almost 2 years on German plates. It’s going to take about 3 months to get the plates moved over.
We can live without a car as Madrid has good transportation links but it’s a hassle and time consuming
more latter
Women as Elders
Posted in Other on May 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
this is way way way off the stuff I usually post but I found recently that a member of our chruch stopped attending after finding out a Women had been appointed to the Elder board.
A little background first. Ours church Mountain View Madrid is a small church plant and after five years of existence we [...]
NEWS FLASH!!
Posted in Other on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stop the presses
The Ledermans had the Wallaces, all 6 of them, over to visit! Can you believe us, we actually had people with kids over!
The really crazy part was we really enjoyed it!
And today we have Dave and Daphane over as well, but no kids.
I feel organized
Posted in Other on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the struggles when one has when one has ADD is the constant need to organize when one’s schedule changes. Picked up a bunch of subsitutes, moved a few classes around and by the end of the day I was feeling it. Took an hour tonight and put everything in order
Feel much better now.
on [...]
!@#$%^ Foreign Drivers
Posted in Other on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pardon my french but I’m sure that’s what the guy in the transit van was saying when I nearly side swiped him today on the way to work, can’t be sure because I only saw his arm moving and I don’t think he was say hello. As the to motorcycle, well I heard the horn [...]
The cook gets to enjoy a glass of wine
Posted in What's cooking on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the nice things about cooking at the Lederman household is the cook gets to enjoy a glass of wine. Of course I knew anything about wine I’d go off on a long tanget but since I don’t I won’t. Still I enjoyed that glass.
Going to Give my Brother Mark a run for the money tomorrow
Posted in Other on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Going to give Mark a good run for the money tomorrow. Cereal for breakfast Cucumber salad for lunch (thanks Omi for the recipe) still out of season watermelon for afternoon break , bunch of digestive cookies thrown in for good measure and very much in season strawberries.
Oh my you won’t want to be around me [...]
