It’s my 100th Sunday Evening Post- which is cool, but I prefer to think of things in years, not round numbers. So there will be a Sunday Evening Post celebration coming up soon, for the 104th edition, which will mark 2 years of my weekly check in, but not tonight. It’s been a pretty good week. I received and accepted a job offer for a job I’m pretty excited about. I ordered my new Faire dressread more…
Would you believe it? I actually had time to read blogs this last week. And I even left a comment or two. Shocking, isn’t it? I don’t know if this will continue into next week, as we have a ton of stuff planned, and I have no idea what my schedule will be like starting July 1 with my new job. But this last week, at least, I read blogs. And here are some of myread more…
I know I said I would try and do a stock market post this week. It will not happen. Things are just a little too busy. However, I do have good news to share. On July 1, I will return to the land of the employed. I am very excited about my new job. It will be with the University, where the benefits are great. I will still be marginally in healthcare (School of Medicine), andread more…
There are lots of great things about taking in an older child. From the beginning, SP has slept through the night. I’ve never had to change her diaper, and she can feed herself. Plus, when something is wrong, she can tell me what it is. It’s great. At the same time, it also means we have to figure out some things about being a parent right now, in the first few months, instead of having yearsread more…
Today was C’s first Fathers’ Day. SP and I made Reeses’ Crumble muffins last night to have for breakfast this morning. We took the dogs on a walk and played some Uno. Then C went out for his scheduled D&D game. SP and I cleaned the kitchen and proceeded to make almost 8 dozen cookies (44 white chocolate chip, 44 butterscotch chip). Then we took the dogs to the dog park, came home and she gotread more…
Secondary coverage is also known as double coverage and results from being covered by two different insurance policies for the same thing. This pretty much only happens in health insurance as no one pays for two homeowner’s policies. The three most common circumstances that result in double coverage are: You purchase a supplemental plan – this is most common with Medicare, and you see AARP and others advertise their supplemental plans all the time. Supplemental plansread more…
This is a guest post from my friend Pamela at Hands On Home Buyer. She recently re-launched her site, and I am excited for the opportunity to help it grow. I bought my first home, a three story Philadelphia duplex for $70,000 in 1990. Ten years later I sold it for $74,000 after spending more than $30,000 in renovations and maintenance. By all accounts it was a horrible loss. But I was happy and stillread more…
Here’s where things stand in our life. On Saturday evening, we were rear-ended. No airbags deployed, both cars drove away. It was very much the other drivers fault. However, the damage to our car is NOT minor, as the truck that hit us had its bumpers replaced with ram plates (seriously) and it actually cut the metal of my car. We don’t think there’s frame damage, but we have to accept it as a possibility. Toread more…
I accept that I am current receiving money to look for work- not to actually work, just to look for work. And I accept that even though I have paid into unemployment my entire working life and this is the first time I’ve drawn on it, there are hoops to jump through. I get that, I really do. But when jumping through those hoops, I’d really like it if, when one person tells me to figureread more…
It is hard for me to even write the title of this post. Now should not be the time to spend money. I am not working, and while job hunting is going quite well, I don’t have an offer on the table, which means no guarantee of any new job, let alone a new job that pays more than the last one (which is the goal). And yet, now is very much the time to spendread more…
