LOL, Dee, isn't is strangely satisfying to see that the nasty girls from school, who were so smug in their coolness, just can't seem to move on from those times? I had that two years ago with my reunion. One of them was glaring at me all night and eyeing off DP, as if to say "what are YOU doing with that hunk?", so I just smugly ignored her all night, hee hee! Honestly, if you get to 30 and you consider that the best years of your life were in high school...well, it's sad that it never got better than that. You sound like you're travelling better, too, BTW
DP and I definitely live simple - small TV that never gets watched anyway (therefore, you can assume we have no interest in pay TV), small house with huge backyard (Oscar's already got a taste for it, so summer, here we come!), two small old cars (one's an '88 model, the other is from the 60's and it's a VW), no dishwasher, no dryer - the gadgets we have are useful and they'd be our computers, coffee machine and sandwich press! I'm simplifying a simple life, but we're really quite happy with out simple life and have no wish to complicate it with big ticket items. DP wants to get rid of the TV, but I like to watch DVD's on it and do my yoga DVD's, even though my laptop plays them, too (but it's a 12 inch screen!).
Bananas - DP thinks I've gone mad - I bought a bunch of 5 from Aldi cos they are the cheapest around here at $7-8 kg. But instead of buying chips as snacks, I bought nanas and celery - I'm being good...she says as she dips another cream cookie into her coffee...and had pancakes (the Irish way, with lemon and sugar) for lunch...
Just comfort sucked Oscar to sleep, so I wonder how long I have!
Gotta go make salad and other bits to go with the steak we're having for dinner, yum!