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Trust Is All We Have
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Snowball Method
Dropped $1500 to pay my credit card debt and I'm not yet done! And I still have to pay the second installment on my taxes before 15 July. And it's not like I'm economizing on cabfares or restaurants. Yesterday, I got a second manicure as a do-over to a bad manicure and I'm not sorry. Well, I was sorry for getting the bad manicure in the first place ( Read more... ) -
This Is the Winter of Our Discontent
So after years and years of slumming it, the brother has decided to back to school and get his college degree ( Read more... ) -
Crowded House: Don't Dream It's Over
So last Friday, the week when an entire project got cancelled and we lost 5 people to cost-cutting, my officemates and I went out to Dampa for a long overdue celebration because we got raises or promoted earlier this summer. Too soon! Too late! Too ironic ( Read more... ) -
Slash and Burn
So this week, while I was home nursing an upset stomach, the Loan Shark instituted a new round of job cuts under its current directive to slash the number of contracted positions by at least 50%. Our Unit had already cut its contractors and consultants down to 4, and we all thought we were safe, at least for next year, but I came back today to the ( Read more... ) -
Self-Image
Had our best looking fluffy dog shaved down for the summer, otherwise, he would have spent the next three months sleeping on the bathroom tiles like a floor rug. He went to the groomers looking like an expensive fluffy puppy and came back nekked and looking nothing like his shih tzu mother and everything like his mixed breed father and without any ( Read more... ) -
Liquidity Gap
My one thing this month is to get my taxes done. 15 April always sneaks up on me and I end up scrambling to make sure I'm liquid on that day, and liquidity has a cost! Last year, it cost me an entire day going from bank to bank because my tax money was my dollar savings and I had to first find a bank which had enough reserves (I was paying in the ( Read more... ) -
Late-Afternoon Reversals
A few years ago, my Rich Boyfriend came back from his appointment abroad to the head office, and was assigned to another department because his previous unit refused to take him back in. His posting was an accommodation to allow him to wait out the end of his term and receive his benefits and various, so that he could then fade away ( Read more... ) -
HK Party Planning Like a Native
I may have overestimated our ability to overindulge in movies for the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Plane tickets and hotel room were booked during the sale period nearly a month before the programme was available, and so we have to work with the films that will be shown during the days when we're there. We can prolly squeeze in a Macau ( Read more... )