My Almost Husband

When teaching piano, my means of time is looking at my cell. Every Tuesday, during my last lesson, I always manage to go over my 30 minute lesson so I've made it a point to check my cell more periodically. Anyway, while I was checking this one time, my student asks "is that your husband?". Response: "No, he's my almost husband." I bet that left her confused, but she didn't ask any more questions. How timing though, one quarter left...

How time flies

- I looked back to the beginning-beginning of my blog and it's my two year anniversary of blogging here. I kissed Xanga goodbye two years ago.

- When I first moved back home, I was a fresh faced 21 year old, called a "baby" by many "older" folks I first met. Fast forward to four years later, no longer referred to as "oh, you're just a baby!"... now it's "so, when are you guys planning on having babies?".

- I also started teaching when I was 21 with a group of first graders. This was before Jon + Kate started so I was freaked out that six year olds weren't potty trained. Luckily, I only had one "pooper" (and it wasn't even during my class when I was teaching). These first graders are now fifth graders. I wonder if they remember their first grade teacher... every so often, I wish I could see how they've grown.

- My second year I was with fourth graders, they're now in seventh grade. Somehow, most of the class (or maybe just the "cool" kids), managed to get on gchat and chat it up with me. Luckily they didn't know much about gchat when I was teaching since that was always on the entire teaching day. They've also managed to get on Facebook and track me down as well as some on Twitter. Dang those tweets, growing up so quickly. I haven't seen these kids for two years. This should be puberty stage for them, I wonder how they're doing and how they've grown now.

- I've just noticed recently that it gets dark at approximately a quarter to eight. Has another summer come and gone? For some reason, I always get a bit saddened during the transition from summer to autumn. And this time around, it will be my last summer to autumn transition as a single person too!

- A girl always dreams about her wedding, when he'll propose, how to plan for it all, etc. Now that it's right around the corner with roughly four months left, I'm thinking "crap! Where has all this time gone? Has five months really gone by?!"

My, how time flies...

Overly genius or overly cheap?

As many of you know, Discover is probably the most well-known credit cards with a great rewards system. For those who are totally left out in the dark, you get 3% back for certain purchases during certain times of the year. Those who use their Discover card as much as possible for their purchases usually know how to get "free money" from different places like Maggiano's or Bed Bath Beyond or something. It's a $20 -> $25, right? Anyway, since there's all these deals out coupons out lately, I've been getting ideas as of late as to how to "save up".

Example #1) Maggiano's currently offers a Today and Tomorrow deal where you order a dish from a set menu and when you're done, they will give you another to-go dish for the next day. This costs $12.95. If you eat with someone else, that bill will come out to roughly $25. Maggiano's is one of the restaurants under the Discover deal where you can get a $25 gift card after you have $20 of rewards saved up. If you use the card, you will be spending maybe $5 or so for a meal for 2 PLUS leftovers for the next day!

Example @2) Currently, the Dyson handheld is reduced to $99.99 at Bed Bath and Beyond (BBB). You can use the BBB coupon which is found in every wedding magazine for 20% off, which makes it $79.99. Now, if you have accumulated 3 gift cards from BBB through the Discover rewards program, that's $75 right now. So you pay like $10 for a Dyson handheld! Is that a deal or is that a deal?

Now, the probing question is... is all this considered overly genius or overly cheap?

Looking Forward to Married Life Because...

1. I will not have to drive home at night to shower and sleep and then wake up to wash up and get dressed and drive all the way back. Basically I commute 40 minutes round trip to just for washing and showering purposes.

2. After a long day out doing whatever or eating a bit too much, I can just go back, change into sweats and crash!

3. No more "two beds in a room" while vacationing.

4. The house will always be clean (to a certain extent), no more coming in and seeing a huge mess everywhere.

5. I won't have to make an extra trip anywhere to buy groceries and plan my day around making sure the groceries don't sit in my car for too long.

Oh! And of course, having a husband to spend time with and have no more (hopefully) lonely dinner nights.