So we budgeted for making some investments this year. We had a portion that we planned to put toward retirement and a portion that we would put in more liquid investments. I am finally putting my finance major to work... I love etrade. I have been researching and researching to find the things that we will invest in! I love that etrade lets you filter through the many with options like projected risk, projected return, and socially responsible companies! I am letting it filter for me and then doing my own research on the results from my searches! I feel like a stockbroker... maybe right now is not the best time to feel like a stockbroker but luckily, we haven't invested much yet and I think the market is pretty low, in general, at this point! What an exciting time to buy.
I think we are just about ready for baby. (I know I keep on saying that but then we do more to get ready!) Yesterday we packed our hospital bags and today I got the car seat installed. Elizabeth got diapers washed and rewashed and then washed again . I think they are ready to go. I don't know if I mentioned that our glider came. If I wasn't here at Caribou, I would surely be sitting in the nursery!
I found a new radio station on our tv... Sirius Holiday Pops... Love it. It is wonderful Christmas music that focuses not on the gifts and the jolly fat man, but rather on the holy newborn. It features choirs and classical instruments... just lovely. I love leaving it on and sitting by the tree.
P.S. I got a kick out of Timothy Dolan's ad on one of the MKE radio stations when he referred to the station as Milwaukee's Advent radio station. So true... they play Christmas music all through Advent and then it is gone on the 26th!
hang on... need a warmer upper!
What else... We went to a fancy schmancy restaurant and you know I like to do my restaurant critiques! Coast is the name of the place and we only went because we had a pretty sizable gift card. Coast is, as the name suggests, a seafood joint. Swanky decor with views of signature pieces of the Milwaukee skyline set the stage for a meal to remember. I had the Strip Steak Au Poivre. It was very good. Elizabeth had the Gorgonzola Tenderloin Filet: also very good. I must be spoiled though, or not sophisticated enough to appreciate the two meals for the price they were. I have been to restaurants that are pricey and thought to myself, "man, if I was going to splurge on a meal and spend more than anyone should spend on one meal, I would totally do that here." I guess that was not the feeling I had after Coast. It was good, but not THAT good. If the price
was paying for the window seat looking out at the Calatrava, the US Bank Building, the Art Museum, and the rest of the Milwaukee skyline, the marvelous atmosphere and the popovers that were served as an appetizer, then it went to the best parts of the meal. My entre was, as I said, very good, but the popover was the highlight--with it's choice of pesto, strawberry or cream butter. Well, I won't recommend the place as being worth the price but I guess you wouldn't go there anyway... they are closing right around the beginning of the year.Well, I suppose I should get on with things. I have some Christmas shopping to do. Elizabeth and I agreed to do Christmas stockings this year. Anything we are going to get for each other has to fit into the stocking that we get for each other. I think I am going to get her an enormous stocking that she could fit her whole body in! A Body Stocking! A Body Sock! This should be fun. Now that is
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