So far today, I’ve committed to paying over $2k for the 80k mile service on our car. This includes oil change, timing belt change, transmission service, and $50 to get some windshield chips repaired. This, by the way, was supposed to be our first “no plans, nothing we have to get done” weekend of the summer. And, I still need to get some mowing done. And probably a trip to the dog park. But tomorrow itread more…
Completely off topic note: For those who are interested in an update on our little Junebug, you can head on over to today’s post at Life by Pets. While we should have spent over $650 so far, the vet office keeps waving fees and we’ve paid less than $200. This is, with a few edits, a post I put up over on a financial message board I’m part of earlier this week. One of theread more…
Earlier this summer, I wrote about the job I had for the shortest period of time. Today, let me tell you about my very first job. I did not get a job until my senior year of high school. I did not drive, so didn’t need money for insurance and gas (family rule), and I was on course for a full ride for college, so didn’t need to earn money to pay for that. My momread more…
Day Amount Place Category Tuesday $10.00 PetsMart Dogs Friday $15.00 Copay Medical $820.00 Car Service Car $97.00 Gas Car $46.50 Mojitos Eating Out Saturday $15.00 Target Allowance $50.00 CostCo Allowance Sunday $60.00 Faire Allowance $20.00 Fred Meyer Groceries The home inspection went well. We are now in phase 1 of “sit and wait”- which is the finishing up paperwork phase. It feels good. We still do need to get our birth parent booklet printed up, thoughread more…
Quick and dirty because I have to get to the dog park, do some shopping, and then drive to a baby shower an hour away. So here are posts I loved this week Crystal at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff has an update on how their new house is coming along. It makes me want to buy new construction again. Frugal Portland does some introspection to figure out What’s the Point to all thisread more…
I work in healthcare. When I went to new employee orientation for my current company, we watched a training video about a guy and his dog, who both got injured while on their morning jog. The video paralleled his trip through the medical system to get X-Rays and labs, etc, with his wife’s experience taking the dog to the vet for the same type of check up. The point was to point out that most humanread more…
Today was the home inspection for our foster license/home study. For those who are wondering, yes, we passed. We are essentially done with everything we can do on our own at this point. We have to wait for J’s background check to come back (they messed it up and had to redo it). Then, our social worker completes her report. She calls us in to review it. She submits it to her boss and then submitsread more…
Day Amount Place Category Thursday $10.00 Farmers Market Groceries Friday $8.00 car wash car $85.00 CostCo Groceries $15.00 Safeway Groceries Saturday $5.00 Target House $45.00 Office Depot House $5.00 Safeway Groceries $25.00 text books School Sunday $15.00 Home Depot House $32.00 Old Spaghetti Factory Eating Out Tuesday is the home inspection for the foster license/to complete the home study process for adoption. This weekend has been pretty much fully taken up with getting the house ready.read more…
Today’s blogs are all posts that made me smile in some fashion or another. And since I like smiling, and like sharing smiles (hence why I’m also sharing a picture of the “Professional Show-Off” from Ren Faire last weekend), I thought I would share these posts with you. We know I’m a geek. This is not news, so the fact that Narrow Bridge Finance wrote a blog about personal finance in case of the Zombie Apocalypseread more…
I decided quite some time ago that weddings are all about the dress, and honestly, for various reasons, I wasn’t quite happy with my wedding dress. So I planned an excuse for a new dress. I see no need for C and I to renew our vows, but I thought it would be nice if, for our tenth wedding anniversary, we took a set of anniversary photos. (Our tenth anniversary is over a year away, soread more…
