We’re doing Saturday matinee in February—so I was hoping for 1130am. I can have it catered at the theatre but it was pricier than I expected. $1500 (could just pay the minimum at Juliet’s for that).
I'm looking for a private banquet room for 40 high schoolers close to Zach Theater for a fancy-ish protocol type dinner before a show. I was hoping for Juliet's. but we won't come close to their minimum spend to get the whole room. Any other ideas?
My mom and my husband share a birthday, both really love fishing, and have never done a chartered trip (due to general frugality). I'd love to surprise them with a double date trip, but I don't know if either would enjoy it knowing it cost thousands. Are the little bay trips worth doing for $600? We could go anywhere, Port A to SPI.
No I probably can’t fit 2 pillows in mine. (i have never tried though—i only use tempur pedic pillows that i dont wash anyway. They have nice waterproof full zip covers. I take my king duvet cover to the laundromat.) Mine is 12.5 years old. Bought it the day i came home from the hospital with our fifth baby in seven years.
No I think you’ll have to pick two of the features. I happily forego an extra cubic foot of volume in my speed queen in order to have zero digital components. Dirty to dry in an hour.
I’m a lazy idiot and didn’t pre-figure our taxes before 12/31. There’s no other non-IRA way to reduce tax liability after the year-end is there? We both are covered by retirement plan at work so we can’t do a previous year IRA contribution.
I paid $1250. My friends and I have all used him before and been happy with his work. I reached out to let them know I wasn’t happy with it and why. They apologized and said they would get back to me. Realistically what are my options? Should I just paint it? Or return it and risk burning a bridge? I’m disappointed with more than the species. It just doesn’t look very well done— super blotchy with visible planing marks. Drawer mechanism seems wonky too. I honestly don’t consider myself super picky, and I definitely bear some responsibility for not asking more questions and drawing up a contract. (In retrospect I think I was reluctant to do anything that would slow it down because i ordered it in October and it took several follow up texts to get any movement on it all.)
I took delivery on this custom vanity an hour ago, and I am realizing now that I am pretty disappointed in how it turned out with respect to the inspiration image I sent the carpenter.
The color of the stain doesn't necessarily bother me per se, but the prominent wood grain makes it look rather rustic, when this tiny powder room is probably the most formal room in my house. The cabinets have a noticeable gap as well.
Can someone take a guess at what type of wood this is? Is there anything that can be done to make it look a little less country? I guess I could paint it, but I'm annoyed as I paid extra for stain grade wood.
Another thing that has me scratching my head--
I went to a giant 6A school in Texas that had multiple DI athletes in a few sports and even multiple professional athletes. I knew literally zero kids on any varsity sports team as they were celebrities. Here in our smallish city all of my friends' (white, upper-middle class) kids play varsity sports at the 4A and 5A schools. I'm guessing there's a huge difference in the large metropolitan schools vs the schools in smaller cities, and less of a difference in the 1-3A schools.
She plays everything we offer. Volleyball, cross country, basketball, soccer, track, tennis, powerlifting. Her favorite is whatever season it is. She was state mvp for basketball but I don’t consider that her best sport.
I have no idea how she would stack up against high competition club sports athletes. I don’t even know if my smallish city has that. She is better than the other girls on her school teams that play club sports.
Small. 5'4" and probably mostly done growing.