December 2010

School’s out! (…almost…)

December 10, 2010

w00t! Yesterday was the last day of class! Would that I could raise a toast to it! Two rafts of papers to read, two courses to post on Blackboard, and then with any luck at all an entire month’s break. I got a head start on the magazine writing students’ papers yesterday. Today I’ll read [...]

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Save the Last Dance for Me…

December 9, 2010

The Workman Waltz begins again! Darn. I thought my dance card had been used up and tossed away. But nooo… Now we start another round, first with an air-conditioning contractor, then with a roofer, then with…??? Actually after the new air conditioner has been installed and the five-year-old roof has been stripped off and rebuilt, [...]

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Hurrah!

December 8, 2010

Evan, our favorite conservative and proprietor of My Journey to Millions, is a father! The Wife brought a baby boy into the world, and Evan lived to tell the story. Congratulations, Evan. If you’d like to celebrate the arrival, consider subscribing to LoveDrop, a micro-giving group that engineers monthly gifts to needy individuals and families. [...]

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Moments of Fame

December 8, 2010

Prairie EcoThrifter hosts this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance with a very creative and entertaining theme featuring a series of great vintage film clips. Miss T also kindly features Funny’s squib on estate planning. As usual, many great posts surface here. I especially enjoyed these: Aloysa’s Kitchen, Five Reasons to Stop Being Frugal and Get [...]

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w00t! First Payment from Amazon!

December 6, 2010

Well! The first payment ever from Amazon Affiliates just surfaced! It ain’t much, I’ll tellya…but it’s sure better than a hit on the head. For a week, I thought it hadn’t landed in the S-corp’s checking account. The darn thing didn’t appear in the credit union’s online page! Today, though, I got around to reconciling [...]

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O Tannenbaum, O Fakenbaum: Real Christmas tree or fake?

December 4, 2010

What’s your preference? A real tree or a fake one to stick in your living room and adorn with Christmas lights and gewgaws? Over at Bargain Babe, the conversation is under way: she lists the pro’s and cons of each (fake ones are cheaper over the long run but shed pollutants—maybe even lead—and are expensive [...]

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