We bought our house in February 2005. The basement has flooded at least once every winter, and sometimes more often. The first couple of floods weren’t going to be helped. We have a heat pump, which serves as a dehumidifier and pulls water out of the air. The first time our basement flooded it was because the pump hooked up to the heat pump failed, so instead of pumping water out of the house, it justread more…
Working on the final exam for my Coursera course. Will try to get a meaningful post up tomorrow.
Day Amount Place Category Wednesday $43.00 nails allowance Friday $10.50 grapes allowance Sunday $33.00 trader joe’s groceries $620.00 opera allowance We actually spent more than this this week, except that we got our annual cash back check from CostCo and that more than covered our CostCo run on Thursday, and we paid cash for our outing on Friday, which means it had already been counted in the budget. You may notice that despite Thursday’s post, weread more…
Do you ever hate your budget? Most of the time, I don’t mind being on a budget. We can afford everything we need and a lot of what we want, but not everything we want. It was brought home this week when the Seattle Opera announced the dates for the 2013 Ring Cycle performances (the cycle is performed over 4 nights). The Ring Cycle is only performed once every 4 years here in Seattle, and Cread more…
The point of this post is not to argue either for or against healthcare and/or immigration reform. It’s simply a story to remind us of how things interact, and how sometimes things interact in ways we never quite expected. This is the story of an immigrant fromMexicoto theUnited States. He originally came to the country in a not quite legal fashion. (I know absolutely none of the details.) He was not trying to freeload offread more…
Day Amount Place Category Thursday $28.00 CostCo groceries Friday $100.00 Clothes allowance $46.00 shoes allowance $5.50 safeway groceries Saturday $96.00 safeway groceries $21.00 supercuts allowance Over half of what we spent this week, I spent on a new blazer, earrings, and boots. Then I got my hair cut (happens about once every 6 months). And would you believe, I’ll spend more on this coming Thursday for a manicure. Yes, it’s a lot of money for “oneread more…
Next Friday, my company is putting on a Women in Leadership Symposium. I am part of the planning committee for this event (growing my professional network and all) and am very excited. I very much want to put my best foot forward, and that means looking professional as part of it. On Friday, I bought a new blazer- it’s a lovely red that will go with all of my work pants, and a couple sizes smallerread more…
Do you use LinkedIn? Do you use it as an extension of your private life, or is it a professional network? I joined LinkedIn while I was in my MBA program. There was an informal competition to see who could get the most connections, after we had a guest speaker come in and talk about the power of social and professional networks. While I did not have the most connections, I was declared a “winner” byread more…
Today is Election Day in the United States, where I, and most of my readers, live. Because this will post around the time that most East Coast polls are closing, I have to imagine that if you are actually reading this today, you are looking for a break from election coverage, and that if you are reading this on Wednesday, you are happy to be done with election coverage. With that in mind, I thought itread more…
Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $31.50 OSF eating out Wednesday $10.00 Safeway groceries Friday $43.50 Trader Joe’s groceries $102.00 CostCo groceries $10.25 Tukwila Trading Post groceries Saturday $89.50 Vet pets $6.50 ear plugs misc Sunday $38.75 gas car $80.00 Living Social deal eating out $32.75 Office Depot allowance It was a pretty good week- mostly quiet at work. I did dress up for Halloween- wore a Ren Faire dress my step-mother made me 8 years agoread more…
