As many people know, November is National Novel Writing month, a time when people often challenge themselves to write a whole novel in a month, or at least 50,000 words. (Trust me, that’s a lot.) This year, I had a few blogging friends who participated in NaNoWriMo, and they wrote posts about what they learned from it. While I don’t take the challenge, blogging for me is as much about the act of writing as itread more…
Have you ever been driving down the road and seen something marked “FREE”? In the previous places I lived, I don’t ever remember that happening, not even in the neighborhoods around my college campus. But in the Seattle area, it happens all the time (at least during the spring/summer months when it’s not pouring down rain). We had a “dog couch” in the garage at our first house that had come from the roadside. It wasread more…
It is the holiday season once again, and with the holiday season comes the holiday advertising. That means that it’s time for one other holiday tradition- my rant against holiday car commercials. Last year, I wrote that Cars are NOT Gifts, and it’s 27 comments make it my most popular post ever (thanks to The Consumerist for linking to it). This year, believe it or not, I have yet to see a commercial suggesting that someoneread more…
Day Amount Place Category Thursday $75.00 King Tut Allowance $35.00 Safeway Groceries Friday $6.00 Parking Car $30.00 Pub Eating Out Sunday $46.25 Gas Car Less than $200 spent this week. I won’t complain about that. Actually, that’s a lie, on Friday, I spent almost $150 on bagels and pastries for my boss’s and admin’s last day. But my boss insisted I expense it to the company and refused to leave until he’d approved my expense report.read more…
Quick and Dirty not because I didn’t read any blogs this week, and not because I don’t love writing round ups, but because I am not yet over this cough, and I’m about to kick the boys out of the house for a few hours, and I can’t wait to go curl up in bed with the puppies and watch bad TV. Luckily, doggies got a full hour at the dog park this morning, and areread more…
Do you use GroupOn or Living Social? I know a lot of people don’t like getting their inbox cluttered up by mostly junk mail, but I’ve found the two services to be very helpful for buying things I’d buy anyway, and saving money. For the most part, I auto delete most emails from either service that show up in my inbox, but sometimes, I don’t. For example, the Renaissance Faire we go to usually offers aread more…
Or Why I Won’t Ever Change Insurance Agents I know who my insurance company is, but if you were to ask me who my insurance is with, I wouldn’t tell you a company name, I’d tell you the name of my insurance agent. I don’t worry about the company. I don’t worry about claims being handled quickly or appropriately, because I know my agent is on top of it. All it takes is one phone callread more…
Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $80.75 CostCo Groceries $12.00 Safeway Groceries Wednesday $23.00 Safeway Groceries $15.75 Qdoba Eating Out Saturday $61.00 Gas Car It was a quiet week, mostly because I was sick and didn’t have the energy to do much this week. Thanksgiving at our house on Thursday went quite well, and Saturkeyday at my friend EB’s house was a lot of fun. C made a creole cornbread stuffing for that (because I volunteered usread more…
It’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I’m going to be spending a good portion of the day at a Saturkeyday celebration with friends. Not quite the “family” I spend the actual day with, but pretty close. I am blessed to be able to celebrate my thankfulness twice. As you all know, I am thankful for the people and pets in my life. And not just my pets. One of the highlights of tomorrow will be takingread more…
Remember that last year we bought the oil-less turkey fryer? We used it again for Thanksgiving this year. It really is wonderful- doesn’t take up the oven and makes the best baked turkey ever, with very little work. You can see pictures of last year’s turkey here, and pictures of this years turkey below. And that’s all you get. From the Dog Ate My Wallet family to yours: I hope you had a great Thanksgiving,read more…
