August 1st, 2014 at 12:04 am
Sunset view from the side of the house (DS's bedroom window).
My phone does a good job with pictures, but this doesn't quite convey all the shades of color there was in the sky. Hope you all enjoy anyway.
In other news, the bonus points have posted for my Wells Fargo Propel card. Yay!
Unfortunately, their system is down, so I can't redeem right now. *Shucks!*
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Income - Yay!
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July 30th, 2014 at 04:03 pm
Monday I received the usual $15 check for the monthly inventory tracking.
$991 Starting Balance
-$15 Snowflake
$976 New Balance
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Credit Cards
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July 26th, 2014 at 08:46 pm
DD turned 13 this past week.
She is waiting until school starts to have a party with friends. It will be a BBQ at one of the nearby parks.
DH, DS and I took her to fondue dinner on her "real birthday" and spent $120. We also gave her a birthday card with a $15 gc enclosed for music downloads. DS made her a bead necklace at preschool that he gave her - it was so sweet.
I can't believe our girl is a teenager now.
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July 25th, 2014 at 12:16 am
This past weekend I did a trial run sitting a client's dog. They dropped her off at my house on Saturday and I brought her home to them Monday morning before work.
Everything went very well. My family loved their little dog. The dog parents were thrilled that everything went well. They are planning a big vacation in a few months and were anxious about where their dog would be staying. Now they are so happy knowing she will be at my house.
I collected a check Monday morning when I dropped her off. $70.
Then during lunch I visited my usual cat client and collected $80.
$150 *extra* for the week!
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Income - Yay!
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July 21st, 2014 at 06:39 am
I saw this today.
While having breakfast at our favorite hole-in-the-wall cafe this morning two black Ferraris cruised by. The tops were down - one was being driven by a man and the other by a woman.
When they reached the end of the block they flipped around to park. The drivers got out and headed to the restaurant we were eating at. We were sitting outside among several other tables. Everyone was commenting on the cars. When the man and woman walked up everyone was totally silent.
While the Ferrari drivers waited for a table my DH walked over and asked if that was a His & Hers situation. The woman laughed (in a friendly way) and said, "Yes it is!"
The question I really wanted to ask was what they did for a living to have money like that.
(Even if I had piles of money I wouldn't want two Ferraris. Let alone to drive them both around at the same time.. it was a strange, ostentatious thing to see.)
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July 19th, 2014 at 05:31 am
I was flipping through the mail when I got home from work and I had a new credit card.
Problem was it wasn't a card I applied for..
So I called (Barclays) and long story short someone opened this line of credit at an Apple store in a nearby city and bought themselves almost $2k worth of stuff (new laptop?) using my identity.
I was advised by the Barclay's CSR to place a fraud alert with the credit bureaus - I think I should take the further step and do a freeze. I am thinking we should do it for DH also.
What do you think?
I'm off to check our CreditKarma accounts to see if anything is popping up.
UGH!
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July 9th, 2014 at 10:28 pm
Pushed it just a little here and used all my cat care money for the week to drop this balance under $1k.
I say "pushed it" because DH still was short a few hours on Friday's paycheck. We ended the week with about $60 less than what I budget for. I think so far there has only been one week where we weren't short. It is slowing goals down for sure!
AND we'll be short again this Friday as DH doesn't get holiday pay for the Fourth of July. Phooey..
The $80/week cat care cash is REALLY helping to buffer the low paychecks, but I'd rather be using the cash for other than covering regular bills.
Okay, here it is.....
$1071 Previous Balance
- $80 C.C. Cash
$991 Current Balance
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Debt
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July 9th, 2014 at 12:55 am
This was fun to have at the party and pretty frugal as far as "cocktails" go.
- 6 oz box Lime Jello
- 1 cup tequila (I used a "silver" - clear type)
- 3 oz Triple Sec
- Juice of 1 lime
- Pinch or so salt (approx 1/4 teaspoon)
- 1/2+ cup cold water
Heat the water to just a boil (same amount as directed on package). Remove from heat.
Stir in mix until dissolved.
Add alcohol, lime juice, salt and cold water.
Stir well.
Pour equal amounts into 25 2oz disposable shot cups. Top off with a little cold water as needed.
Refrigerate several hours or overnight until set.
(OR use a glass baking dish and cut into squares once set.)
Enjoy!
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July 2nd, 2014 at 12:37 am
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This and That
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July 2nd, 2014 at 12:22 am
So despite DH's weekly paychecks still coming up short, I did manage a few small flakes toward this one particular cc.
$1121 Starting Balance
- $15 S. Flake
- $25 Regular payment
- $10 S. Flake
$1071 Current Balance
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Debt
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