I've always been proud of the fact that I'm pretty good at doing our taxes. This skill really started out of necessity. Years ago money was super tight and I wasn't about to hand over half my refund to H&R block when I was smart enough to read the books and forms and figure it out in an afternoon ( Read more... )

On Sunday we went over to Sutton to continue helping cleaning out the house. This time the house had several industrial fans that the clean up crew left on in hopes of drying out the house. I believe the upstairs is now completely cleaned out and there is a large pile of stuff for an antique dealer to look at ( Read more... )

Just took my third practice test for the literacy test on Saturday and I bombed it. I even did worse than the pretest this time. However Will kept distracting me and I was feeling short on time even though I wasn't. The reading part I did fine on, it was the writing that tripped me up. But I still have to download a writing test and maybe the ( Read more... )

I hate health insurance! For my insurance I'm paying $155/month. Then I went to see a doctor to write me a birth control prescription and the office visit copay was $50. The prescription copay was $20. And now I just got a letter saying I still owe the insurance company another $69! And I didn't even get an exam, just a prescription ( Read more... )

Today at work the kids were off the wall crazy and even my boss couldn't control them and she's good with kids. Good news was after work I was allowed to withdraw my entire paycheck from the company issued debit card and then went to another meet up of the Worcester social group. There were more people this time and the food spread was more ( Read more... )

Today was busy. I voted then went to my boss's house for training, basically I was taught how to write activity plans. We only get paid an extra hour for activity planning, but to do one right takes a bit longer to research and prepare. The key to preparing is to try to do it while on the clock and work fast. Then we drove to work and I worked ( Read more... )

So the RPCV gathering was ok. There was one really nice woman named Kendra we spent a lot of time talking to. Didn't really hit it off with the others. And once the party started to get rowdy it was too hard just to sit and talk anyway ( Read more... )

Today I sent in a resume to a tutoring company and within five minutes of e-mailing it I got a call and an appointment for Monday morning. Unfortunately they want tutors most often during the hours I'm at work. But weekend mornings could work. They pay $24/hour so all I'd need would be 5-6 hours/week to be more comfortable. I also have to take ( Read more... )

Today was an ok day. I had the house to my self this morning. Things were a lot quieter than normal. Didn't do anything out of the ordinary, just housework and surfed the web a bit. It's frustrating, I regularly see job ads in the Boston area for ESL teachers but for my current situation moving closer to Boston wouldn't get me much of a pay ( Read more... )

Spent all weekend raking leaves. A house that sits on an acre of land with a lot of trees sounds pretty until all those leaves fall down. Took me all weekend just to do the left and right sides of the house. The backyard only has a few leaves which can be sucked up into a lawn mower ( Read more... )