Frames are Not Cheap

As I am writing this I am munching on the guacamole that we made for dinner. I'm amazed at how easy it is to make-- mash some avocados with a little oil and lime, add whatever else you like, and presto! delicious dip. I suggest everyone try and make it. It helps that avocados are grown in mass here-- and happen to be delicious.

On Saturday we had a staff meeting at the bank. It was pretty much a 2 hour reminder that we should be selling more credit cards (probably because that's how we make lots of money) and then we read nine million papers that rated our performance. I'm doing OK so far.

This past week was Fiesta, which my coworkers had made out to sound like a big drinking fest. I had to work all week, so I missed all the festivities. We did go downtown on Sunday-- the last day of the fest-- but all that was going on was the closing ceremony which was a tickets required black tie event. In all we missed it. Next year I'll be sure to take time off for it.

I desperately want a new phone and cell service for my birthday, so Charles took me to the verizon store today since it's my day off. Before we got there he got a call from his dad, Don't tell Beth, but were planning on getting her a cell phone for her birthday. Well since we were already on the way to get one, there was no real surprise. He's planning on transferring me one of the existing phones from his business then he has an extra one. But first he need to switch it to a California area code, and only then can we get a phone for me and some how have it set up on his account. In all-- we couldn't do it today. Hopefully I'll get a phone by my birthday.

Our next stop was an art store that does custom framing. We had Charles 2 diplomas and my one, and wanted to get all three of them framed. We picked out some blue and gold matting and a classic wood frame and the nice glare free glass that lets maximum light through. All in all and awesome package. So how much will that cost us? $450. For one of them.

Ouch

I wasn't planing on dropping 14 hundred on frames. We tooled with a few of the options-- double matting instead of triple, simple glass instead of 'museum' quality, an inexpensive frame. No matter how many changes we made, it didn't go much less then $400 apiece, so we left saying we'd think about it. Honestly, I was thinking that is wouldn't look so bad if we just stapled them on the wall. They are nice paper-- they wouldn't look so bad on there own.

So we went to Michael's in hopes of getting a better deal there. After doing some more option manipulations, we were able to settle on the triple matting we wanted and a classic dark wood frame with non-glare glass for a much more reasonable price-- and 50% discount, I think the sales associate sympathized with the whole poor college student situation we're in. So in 2 weeks we'll have gorgeously framed proof that we did indeed graduate college. Times 3.