Back in January I had a few money problems and had to scramble to pay rent, then try to live extra-frugally for a couple of weeks. At some point during this time I downloaded a song from Amazon. 1 song only, I figured I'd be just fine. I normally don't have a lot of money free on my credit card but I make payments every pay period so it's rarely ( Read more... )

I'm placing this story link here so that I can remember to show it to Tom later. But feel free to look. ^_^

After making chili last Sunday and eating it all week, I did a green salad with chicken on Friday. The chili turned out good but I was tired of it after 4 days in a row. But it kept me from spending money at lunch, so it was a success. I wanted to do something similar this week -- maybe stew -- but something besides basic beef stew. So I ( Read more... )

When I paid my rent this month they told me that the new treadmill would arrive next Wednesday ( Read more... )

So I made Chili Sunday. I didn't really follow any recipe, but it turned out good ( Read more... )

So after the snowstorm I paid $233.00 to fix a sensor in my power steering so that my car would pass an emission test, so that I could pay about $90.00 for new tabs... and I spent money on other things and wasn't very careful, and this is on my rent check, so I wound up short for rent and had to scramble to come up with more cash to put in my bank ( Read more... )

My power just came back on, yay! First thing I did was pull half the stuff out of my fridge and freezer to throw away. Power's been out for 3 1/2 days ( Read more... )

Well, I don't have power at home but I made it into work today, not an easy feat when you live on a hill and the weather's bad ( Read more... )

So a few months ago I had Mike look at my computer after the video card began to act weird. But after blowing out the dust and taking up for Mike to look at, there weren't any problems, other than a little noise from the fan. Mike said it might be starting to fail anyway, and gave me a spare in case it did suddenly die... but everything's been ( Read more... )

My ex-roommate Tom got me into this series back in Oct-Nov by lending me the first two seasons. I was surprised that none of my friends actually watch it, though most had heard of it (I realized after watching it that I'd seen clips from it on Youtube and the like before too ( Read more... )