Dropped $1500 to pay my credit card debt and I'm not yet done! And I still have to pay the second installment on my taxes before 15 July. And it's not like I'm economizing on cabfares or restaurants. Yesterday, I got a second manicure as a do-over to a bad manicure and I'm not sorry. Well, I was sorry for getting the bad manicure in the first place ( Read more... )

So this week, while I was home nursing an upset stomach, the Loan Shark instituted a new round of job cuts under its current directive to slash the number of contracted positions by at least 50%. Our Unit had already cut its contractors and consultants down to 4, and we all thought we were safe, at least for next year, but I came back today to the ( Read more... )

Had our best looking fluffy dog shaved down for the summer, otherwise, he would have spent the next three months sleeping on the bathroom tiles like a floor rug. He went to the groomers looking like an expensive fluffy puppy and came back nekked and looking nothing like his shih tzu mother and everything like his mixed breed father and without any ( Read more... )

My one thing this month is to get my taxes done. 15 April always sneaks up on me and I end up scrambling to make sure I'm liquid on that day, and liquidity has a cost! Last year, it cost me an entire day going from bank to bank because my tax money was my dollar savings and I had to first find a bank which had enough reserves (I was paying in the ( Read more... )

While I wait for my Rich Boyfriend to pony up for my services and while the Loan Shark bullies me into staying for another year:

1. Macbook Air - Legitimate. Patrick is 3 years old at this point and too slow for comfort.
2. 1T External HD - Less legitimate, because I've signed up for Dropbox Pro, but maybe Legitimate because some files on Dropbox are ( Read more... )

Each month, when we do the groceries, we usually buy her essentials as well - condiments, sugar, coffee, bath soap, shampoo, and canned goods. Since I've decided to eat more healthy and stopped buying so much corned beef and Spam, and since after Yolanda where everyone just said Bleeeach to sardines, I decided that's time for a moratorium on Ligo. ( Read more... )

Question Hour!

Poll Allowances

"We are working on your payment. Nothing needs to be done on your side." is possibly the loveliest email I received this week, but not if it's the Friday before Christmas and banks will be closed for the weekend. I need to make a balloon payment on the stupid lot my mother made me buy, pay people I outsourced jobs to, and renew health insurance for ( Read more... )

I would like to write for The Billfold. I have so many thoughts! And also, still a fail despite all these thoughts! Like for this week, I was supposed to bill for services rendered last month but we've switched over to a computerized system and somehow it logged that my previous claim covered the period October to November. Which meant that when I ( Read more... )

My classmate has been found: six days after Yolanda, she was able to hunger games her way to a rescue plane and flew in to Manila with her baby daughter, but her husband and brother stayed behind to look after things. We don't have a lot of info yet, because whenever she sits down to email us about it, she ends up crying, and we're not calling her ( Read more... )