I forgot to post this a few days ago but:

Takayla got a new job today! Well, she got it last week, but she doesn't start until today. To keep you up to date, up until June of last year, she was working for a shipping and travel company in Baltimore. She worked from home three days a week, and traveled to Baltimore twice a week. The company was really ( Read more... )

So, I did bills last night. Things are not good. Two part time jobs I have had (babysitting and dog sitting) have all but dried up. This means that we're single income with takayla's unemployment trickling in up until December. She has only had one interview all summer, despite her applying to a lot of places (2-3 places a week ( Read more... )

I saw Michael Moore's "Sicko," last night. I got paged at 1am, and I had to spend a while trying to free up space on a server that was running so low on hard drive space, it was about to crash, and that would have been bad. I had it on in the background, and while I was waiting for files to copy, I got sucked in ( Read more... )

So get this, I get a notice from American Express they have halted my card because of excessive spending. The total that I reached was not very high, and I paid it off every month anyway ('tis the rules with American Express), and I wasn't late (payment due next week). This was part of a plan to shift spending around so I could pay off other cards ( Read more... )

I have Verizon woes, and now I have AT&T woes ( Read more... )

So I opened my wallet to pay for breakfast, and I noticed there was confetti in it. This puzzled me at first, and I wondered where I had been that I would have small shiny plastic bits of confetti mixed with my loose change ( Read more... )

I hate it when a vendor won't tell me a price on a web page, and says, "Call for a price quote." To me, that means, "We are ashamed how much we charge and know how expensive we are, so we hope to convince you otherwise with a lot of pushy salespeople." Can you at least give me a ballpark figure? No? You lose ( Read more... )

Two hours of fitful sleep started off my day. I got most of the bills done by 4am, and I have a few more to go. Then I have to balance the checkbook. Oy ( Read more... )

So, you recall my entry about returning that wallet, right? That's not the only time I have run into this in the last week.

While walking around Lake Forest Mall with tth, I went to get some money from the ATM. The screen said, "If you'd like to cancel your withdraw, please press cancel." A few seconds later, a Visa card popped out. We returned ( Read more... )

I was up until 3am doing bills. I hate bills. Luckily, American Express may be able to help me out with a consolidation at 5.99% fixed while the high credit card is 18.9%. I am going to have to ditch that card; 7 years ago it was only 11.9 ( Read more... )