Leah’s Cafe

Today is our third anniversary for our civil marriage registration. We have been married for three years!!

It has been a rough three years. It’s enough trouble that the person you are married to is still taking his own sweet time to grow up, what more with all this long separation. Suffice to say that we have been separated longer than we were together in the last three years!

What to do with a marriage that doesn’t exist? We are still married mainly because we believe marriage is for life, but I have a feeling that I am just wasting my life with a procrastinator in every sense.

Consider how long the migration process is going to take, and how long it takes for him to put his acts together, it will probably be better to postpone the move to IL. Since the business is fold up completely and the sale has finalized, I would have all the time to do what I want in this coming two months!

As he rather spend the money allocated for the air tickets on buying toys, I won’t feel guilty spending my money on Cheap flight to Orlando. I am sure visiting Disneyland and have a good time with Mickey and Minnie without him is more fun that waiting for him to do what he is supposed to do. It’s too stressful to deal with a procrastinator, should just go somewhere for a vacation and forget about the stress. Must do it after recovering from the surgery!!

Was taking a shower when the phone rang on Saturday morning. My feet were probably wet and soapy when I ran down the stairs. And the results of my carelessness: a swelling hand with torn ligament!

It will take about a week to heal! A bit inconvenient to have only one hand to move and pack stuffs. Yesterday was the last day I have to clear out the center. I got the Indian guys next door to move some of the boxes into the car. The boxes are going to stay inside the car till my hand heals. Driving with one hand and have the right hand crossed over to shift the gear was challenging.

We used to live in a small town in Connecticut, which is about 45 minutes away from the Big Apple. We would take a train downtown on Saturday morning and spent the weekend there browsing through the museums, galleries and sometime did some window shopping. We would bring sandwiches in the brown bags or buy the hotdogs from the street vendors for lunch.

The trains did not run on Sundays, so we usually got home on Saturday evening or Monday morning. We were cheapskate budget travelers, we never stay at any of the New York Hotels. :-)We either had a day trip without staying overnight or we put up at friends who live in the city.

Most people see their big day as once a lifetime event that worthy of careful planning and splurging their savings on. Do you realize that businesses that provide wedding related services continue to prosper despite of fierce competitions?

Many of the photo studios also team up with makeup artists, wedding planners and event organizers. Do you realize that many weddings this days are very professionally organized? The bride and groom are getting creative in coming out with unique wedding favor ideas with the help of this professionals, Of course, to stay ahead of their competitors, many places that provide wedding services have their selling points and killer strategic that get people come in their doors through word of mouth.

We expected that it will take a month or two for me to recuperate after the surgery. And I properly can’t carry anything heavy for a while.  Look like the move to IL has to be postponed another month or two.

Though we have sold some furniture few months ago, but we still have some electronics items and furniture to get rid of before the move. May have to put up an ad and do a yard sale after the surgery.

Our car insurance is due this month. Though we have decided to sell the car before the move to IL, we still have to renew the car insurance, don’t think we can drive around without an insurance! :-)

We would be happy to to able to sell the old junk for 2-3k! Looking at the second hand car market, we doubt we can get that! Consider we paid 11k for this old junk three years ago, the price has dropped like a bag of rocks, hasn’t it?

We want to sell the junk car before the move to IL. We have passed on the news to the people at the workshop and promised to give them a little commission if anyone they introduced end up buying the junk from us.

We still haven’t gotten any buyer because we are upfront with them, we told them that they need to spend some money fixing up the car, it needs an overhaul! The bearing of the engine needs some work. We have replaced a few things recently. Though it’s easy to get a used Nissan radiator and it doesn’t cost as much as a new Taurus Radiator, it still cost us a few hundred getting the radiator and water pump fixed.