Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
I love this time of year. The anticipation of the next few month’s financial boosts always gets me feeling good. Once we’ve gone through those, then summer is right around the corner. So, what am I talking about? In February we get our annual bonus at work. In March, it’s our annual raises, and at our house we usually get a tax return about that
I have spent the better part of the last year looking for a rental house to purchase. At one point I got really excited and put an offer in on a house a few blocks from me that the bank was dumping for 50% of it’s value because it was missing all the windows. I was really bummed when I got beat out. (There were
A little over a month ago my wife, daughter and I traveled over to our friends cabin in the mountains about 2.5 hours away. The cabin is a beautiful home situated on the banks of a river in a neighborhood of other cabins. Since it was late November, there was plenty of snow on the ground and we spent some time sledding down the long
I’ve been volunteering as the PTA Treasurer at my daughter’s school this year, which I’ve found to be both enjoyable and a bit of a pain. I like being involved and getting to know a lot of the parents at the school but I’ve also found it to be quite a bit of work, on top of all the other things I have going on
Well, now that it’s been a couple days, I’m happy to report that the Iphone has magically turned on!!! I’m still going to give it a couple more days to dry out but it seems to mostly work. (It seems to have a delay when placing calls). Just in case it doesn’t come back to life fully, I’ve wiped it clean so I can feel
Well, after a couple month hiatus, I’m dieting to shrink my waist line a bit. I’m not really subscribing to a strict diet but I have drastically reduced my food intake and am counting calories through the Weight Watcher’s method. To keep me honest I’m meeting my brother in law at his house to weigh in each Monday night. So far so good. If I
Wow. It’s amazing what a difference a week makes. It was only a little over a week ago that I was feeling bummed that rates had gone down since I locked in at 4.875% for a 30 year fixed. Fast forward to today and my credit union’s rate has increased to 5.45% for a 30 year fixed. That’s after being down to less than 4.5%
This post probably falls under the TMI category (Too Much Information) I’ll confess that Thanksgiving isn’t my favorite holiday. I love the idea of Thanksgiving and have many, many things to be thankful for each Thanksgiving so that part of the day is great. Where it all goes south for me is the food. Since I was a baby I’ve had severe allergies to many,
Last night I found myself wanting to test out some software. I’ve been playing around with various DJ software. Most of the versions that I’ve downloaded are demos and I really didn’t want to fill up my Vista machine with a bunch of junky software. The solution for this was to download Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. It WORKS GREAT! If you aren’t familiar with virtual
It’s week four of the weight loss contest. If you recall, I’m having somewhat of a contest with my brother in law where we set a target to lose 17 pounds each at the rate of a pound a week. If either of us weighs more than we did the previous week, we have to pay the other person $10. At the end of the
