‘member that time?

‘member that time my grandma tried to get my grandpa to stop smoking (after he had been for 50 years)? ‘member how she thought the best way to do that was to put handwritten notes underneath his clear ashtray so that he’d be immediately convicted to stop right then and there?

my favorite thing she wrote on one of them was a bible verse about the second coming or something and her words below it:

“think about that!”

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

oh harry

‘member that time?

‘member that time when me and my bff got to go on vacation together? ‘member how we kept ourselves busy by arguing about who’s hair was fine or coarse and counting all the “cow’s toilet paper?” what? you don’t know what cow’s toilet paper is?

it’s that giant “roll” of hay/grass. duh. we counted over 200 easily.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

question

which ron swanson face is your favorite?

‘member that time? sports edition

much like my funnygirl idol, i’m running low on ‘member that times. i think i’m going to call it quits on the weekly posts after july. but don’t worry, the hilarity will continue with the long-awaited (by me mostly) “you know you live in a trailer park when…” series!

‘member that time i played softball? and enrolled in jazz and ballet classes? and took a golf lesson? and gymnastics? and volleyball?

really?! you remember that? because i’ve blocked those out completely.

maybe because i always wanted to quit halfway through the season, three of those sports made me cry, and i peed my pants (or leotard, if you will) in at least one.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

question

would you believe that almost everything i write has exclamation points after at least half of the sentences? and that i go through and change many of the points to periods, just for my more mellow readers?

would you?!?!?!!?!!!!!!!

‘member that time?

‘member that time when i was a kid and i hated lima beans but my mom made me eat them anyway? so, ‘member how that one time, i got really smart and just threw my lima beans on the floor under the table when my mom wasn’t looking? just like the kids did on tv?

too bad we didn’t have a dog.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

question

which is more odd:
that i’m really good at unclogging toilets?
or that i learned my toilet un-clogging skills from the red-green show?

i could not for the life of me find the clip i remember watching from the red-green show, but here’s a pretty funny one about toilets.

the engaged budget

when we got engaged, i knew we had to start actually planning out how we spent our money. we both made enough as single people to not really think about it that much. neither one of us were crazy spenders, so we just lived paycheck to paycheck and that worked fine for us.

but we were engaged. we were supposed to be grown-ups. sure i was only 19, but i was going to act like an adult and no one could stop me.

the first major financial decision we made as a couple? buying a car from bryan’s parents without any money to do so. [did i mention i was 19 and bryan was 20?] bryan’s parents have the gift of generosity and they were happy to give us the car with the agreement that we would pay them back as we could.

the first 8 months or so we started to communicate about finances. we talked about goals, did some tentative budgeting and began to check with each other before spending our money. i specifically remember that we both spoiled each other with tons of nice and expensive christmas gifts because we knew that it was the last year we’d be able to do so without thinking the better of it.

at the beginning of 2009, we had close to $13,000 in debt. most of it was for my car loan which we were paying interest on and the rest was what we owed to bryan’s parents.

having many good ideas about money management, and being self-controlled and decently wise with our money, we also enrolled in financial peace university which is a dave ramsey program.

i’ll be writing more about what we learned from f.p.u. next week, but until then, i’ll leave with this hilarious comparison showing how similar my father-in-law and dave ramsey look.