I'm so grateful to be home this Saturday, and have a week before I have my final planned business trip this quarter. I'm going to Lo...

I've been traveling again for work, but a few frugal things that happened before I left, mostly focused on our ill fated ski trip last w...

While we didn't get to ski yesterday, we were out of the house most of Saturday & Sunday, so I need to get a bunch of stuff done tod...

I flew in Friday afternoon from Tokyo, and was pretty jet lagged, as you'd expect. After sleeping for 13 hours (!), on Friday night, I w...

I was traveling Sunday-Friday, so spent zero out of pocket. M did take the kids to dinner (we had a gift card), but accidentally grabbed one...

I usually totally veg out on a long work flight. I find it hard to focus. I also tend to go wildly off track on my eating & fitness on w...

I head to Tokyo tomorrow, am home Friday afternoon (jet lagged, for sure) & then leave for LA on Tuesday. I never plan back to back work...

This week's theme feels like it's "eating all of the leftovers". SO many leftovers! Here are a few frugal things we did ...

I'm so excited! I spoke to my manager yesterday, and she agreed to my dates. I'm planning on taking from ~May 15th to just after Lab...

I'm a little late with my menu plan for the week, but better late than never. M brought home an unexpected salmon on Thursday, so the me...

This was a very unusual spending week for us. We had a holiday (New Year's Eve), a travel day (New Year's Day), a two day ski trip ...

Alternative title - the time we got stuck in a huge snowstorm & they closed the freeway. . . We had a fabulous time skiing on Friday (...

It was in no way a frugal week, with a travel day, a holiday & prepping for a two day ski trip. But, we managed a few wins! Food vou...