February 2010
43 posts
January 2010
86 posts
28 january →
missing the point →
23 january →
22 january →
21 january →
mid afternoon snack
apple 115 calories…
2 handfuls of cashews 90 calories…
1/2 cup of goldfish 150 calories…
1/3 cup of craisins 131 calories.
Next time…
I’ll eat a bowl of cereal with skim milk for 200 calories.
20 january →
17 january →
1 tag
clearing the cruft
It feels very odd.
When I upload photos from my camera, I delete the bad ones. The ones so blurry I can’t stand to look at. Then I give the rest one star. I go back and look at them zoomed in and give them 2 stars if the are in focus. They get three stars if they are tack sharp.
I label those I want to edit and those I have edited and are good to use.
What I had never done is go back...
tazo full leaf teas, boo! →
total money makeover week two
I am starting to get a handle on things.
I stopped using credit a few months ago. Mostly because I didn’t have anymore. So when some income came in, I would spend it and then struglle the rest of the month. Me and the rest of America.
Part of me thought that setting up a budget meant I would have no money to spend. I do have some money to spend. Just not like I was doing in the past....
16 january →
fraud
I just spent an hour on the phone with Bank of America.
See, my previous post explains that I am trying to balance my finances. In doing so, I found some fraudulent charges. The amount was the same, $29.95, but the name kept changing. One month it was vv-payitexpress.com, another month it was ej-expresscollect.com. Google didn’t turn up much except that this was probably a fraudulent...
15 january →
the envelope system
OK. I get the idea of a budget. And cash, yep, it’s making me think twice about every expenditure.
But the virtual envelope system is driving me mad.
It probably would have helped if I had been keeping track of things and had paper bills so I could set it all on the table and get an idea of where I stand. Or more correctly, where I am sinking.
But I am the ostrich with her head in the...
