There is no blog round-up today because I did not read any blogs this last week- none, not even my favorites. It was not a supremely busy week nor was it a rough week. In fact, I think it may have been one of the most even keel weeks I’ve had in a while. And I kind of took a mini-vacation, enjoying not having to do much, including read. It was a break I needed. Atread more…
I had a hard time deciding whether or not to write this, let alone whether or not to post it. This is a POLITICAL post, and so if that will bother you, please feel free to not read it. But I don’t think anyone can argue that politics are outside of the realm of the personal or the financial, so in that sense, this belongs here. What I say here shouldn’t come as a surprise toread more…
I had really hoped that we would be through the paperwork stage on the adoption by the end of this month. Considering we have not yet heard back from the State ofNVon J’s background check, though, that’s obviously not going to happen. At this point, we’ll be lucky to be through the paperwork and have our license by the new year, considering that the holidays always make things take longer. It’s really hard to be patientread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $24.00 movie allowance Tuesday $12.00 petsmart pets Friday $10.00 safeway groceries $46.00 gas car Saturday $33.50 trader joe’s groceries $16.50 WoW allowance Sunday $5.50 Left4Dead2 allowance So having a 4 day weekend meant that I forgot about this post last night, and then almost forgot about it tonight because today is Monday. As the week went, there was not a whole lot of spending, which is good. My weekend has beenread more…
Knowing that October was going to be a stress filled month at work, I made plans early on to make this weekend a 4 day weekend. So far, it’s been fabulous. I left the house briefly yesterday, but otherwise, have no plans to do so again until Tuesday when I go back to work- unless the skies clear up enough to make a dog park run look realistic. For now, though, puppies are curled up sleepingread more…
I have mentioned a few times that right now, I think there is a 50/50 chance my current position will still exist by end of first quarter 2013. I have also said I am not stressing about it. How is that? Psychology Well, first and foremost, I currently still have a job. I will not know anything more until January, which gives me plenty of time to get used to the idea that I may beread more…
Things are crazy here at work, in a reorganizational sense. Layoff notices went out last week, not to a lot of people, but enough, and across all levels of staff. (I laid off an admin. My executive director was also laid off.) While I’ve learned enough to know that I’ll still have a job come January, that’s only because the next round of layoffs won’t come until then. I’m still giving myself a 50/50 chance ofread more…
Day Amount Place Category Monday $43.00 safeway groceries Tuesday $38.00 dentist medical $18.00 costuming allowance $16.50 WoW allowance Wednesday $15.00 domain reg allowance $71.50 ART eating out Friday $7.50 taco bell eating out $94.00 CostCo groceries $12.50 BevMo groceries $22.00 safeway groceries $4.00 battery groceries $14.00 target allowance Saturday $985.00 sears/fridge house Sunday $52.00 gas car $71.50 Monsoon eating out This looks worse than it is. We bought a new refrigerator on Saturday. Money for thatread more…
Starting today, I’m trying something new with my round-ups. From now on, I am writing one round-up post a week and it will include both personal finance and pet blogs. I’m writing it once and posting it on both sites. My goal is for 10 links- 8 blogs I already know and love (4 from each category) and 1 new to me blog from each category, as well. I’m hoping this will end up saving meread more…
