March 2010

Money Happens: Planning ahead through 2011

March 31, 2010

Reviewing the first quarter of post-Canning Day finances, I’m amazed to discover that I’ve not been spending as much money as I budgeted, and not anything near the amount that’s been flowing into the checking account. In fact, on average I’ve spent about $1,100 a month less than income! The reason for this, of course, [...]

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The Three A.M. Waltz

March 31, 2010

God, how I hate waking up in the wee hours of the morning! Is anything, anything more annoying and frustrating? I’m so tired I’m almost sick, and I can. not. sleep. Part of it is worrying about losing a chunk of cash in the mail just when I have to get a new crown…that money [...]

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Vote now if you haven’t yet!

March 30, 2010

FMF reports that he will name a winner of the current round tomorrow, Wednesday. If Funny makes it through this one, then we’ll be at the final, championship round! So that would give us a nice chance at winning $500 and clinch a $300 donation for the All Saints Choir. If you haven’t voted in [...]

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General quotidian miseries

March 30, 2010

{grump!} It’s not like I didn’t have enough screwing around to have to do… Apparently the Post Office lost an envelope sent to the credit union containing three checks, one for my personal account and two for the Copyeditor’s Desk account. It was a printed envelope from the credit union, so the address was correct, [...]

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w00t! We’re at the FINAL FOUR round!

March 29, 2010

Wow! Thanks to the kindness of Funny’s readers, a great raft of choir members, and every friend new and old I can pester, we’ve reached the “Final Four” round of Free Money Finance’s March Madness contest! This means that Funny is getting very close to winning $300 or $500 for All Saints’ wonderful choir! I [...]

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Odorless, stingless sunscreen

March 28, 2010

Yesterday while I was rummaging through one of the drawers that needs to be cleaned out, I came across a small tube of sunscreen that I’d bought at the Mayo Clinic’s pharmacy several years ago. Shortly after I’d bought it, I’d “put it away” (read “tossed it in the drawer where it got lost”) and [...]

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