I walked into the conference room two weeks ago for a regular staff meeting. Someone pulled up the agenda, and pit formed in my stomach as I read “active shooter training.” I avoid active shooter training whenever possible, and I prepared myself for what I would do. The CSPD officer who works as our campus…
Lisa
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Car packing list
When we moved out to Colorado, I traveled here a few weeks before Mac came home to buy our house. I also shipped our household goods and my car to arrive while I was out here (we drove Mac’s car out here). Our car carrier allowed me to have stuff in the car, so I…
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My Sam’s Club strategy
Most people I know have a warehouse club membership. My family have always been Sam’s Club members because of where we’ve lived. Mac and I got a membership way back in 2010 when we moved in together. These days, we shop there about once a month and spend about $200, so I’m sharing how we…
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My commissary strategy
A perk of military life is access to the military commissaries. As a lifelong military dependent, I’ve spent my whole life shopping in the commissary. I have fond memories of the old commissary at Peterson AFB when I would get a donut and a Frutopia (who remembers that flashback?) as a treat while out with…
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Why I have so many bank accounts
One area that I’ve tried to work on throughout my five-plus years of married life is our finances. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the best when it comes to saving and that I have some less-than-ideal shopping habits (hello, Amazon Prime). As time goes on, I’ve realized that I am terrible…
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30 by 30: the year before 30
My birthday fell the weekend before sorority recruitment at work, so I was not doing any sort of blogging. My usual birthday 30 by 30 update did not happen, so here it is a [few] months late on my half-birthday. I managed to cross a few more things off in 2016 (#19, 22, and 26)….