I went out to lunch with the guys at work today, so I decided not to go to a show or bowling or anything tonight (it’s all a tradeoff. I really needed to get out of the office, and I like hanging out with the guys, but I spent about $5 more than I wanted […]
I will owe less than $10,000 on my Credit Card (back down to four figures, baby!) I haven’t seen four figures since before I got sick. Mmmm health care and job layoffs, oh my. But I’m actually doing this thing, yo.
To get a decent night’s sleep. And sneak out of the office at 4:30 tomorrow. Then plan my writing schedule for 2008/2009. Again.
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Work weeks when I have big projects due tend to be kind of crappy weeks, yo. I missed both of my workday workouts because of work meetings and was hopped up on too much diet Coke, which meant I was far more jumpy and anxious than usual. Which means I’m not sleeping well. And I’ve
My water and trash bill is $18 less than I budgeted for! I can go bowling next weekend! Being a grownup: not doing what you want to do when you want to do it, but when it makes financial sense to do it.
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I think this is the first month since I started my new budget in January that I actually 1) didn’t come in over budget 2) didn’t put anything on my credit card 3) didn’t go to Chipotle at least once a week (I only had two Chipotle receipts!) Groceries Budget: $350Actual: $347.20Creative accounting: I had
Went over to Steph and the Old Man’s today to help them put together the last of their shelves down in the basement. Learned how to properly use a power drill. They’ve been remodeling their bathroom all week, and using my shower while theirs is out of commission. Their bathroom looks like a real Oakwood
The grass is brown, and the season puts me in the mood to look up, and up, always, for the first dead leaves of the season. Even though it’s just August, it’s the beginning of the end. Maybe I’m just reminded of Alaska, when the leaves were falling in mid-August, when the storms were coming
Went out and watched The Dark Knight again with a couple guys from work, and paid more attention to the gender dynamics that folks were mentioning. And yeah, it’s true. It’s so classicaly comic-bookey in the good way (good vs. evil, chaos vs. order, epic villian vs. epic hero, etc), and in the bad way.
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