Category Archives: plan of action

How’s Your Energy Level? Adrenal Fatigue Explored

plan of action, Tech Stuff, True Confessions
This post is about my experience with adrenal fatigue and some thoughts on how to combat the tiredness. My energy level is terribly low. My entire life I've never been very energetic and in the past year to my dismay I've been slowing down even more. I had to see my primary care physician last Friday and she agreed to do a full panel thyroid test (the typical test comes back normal more often than not but the full panel… Read the rest
Lemon Chicken with Squash

It’s Time for Dinner

plan of action, saving money
We really don't like eating fast food, and we try to make our own meals. Usually our 18 year son cooks for us. But it really becomes a burden when one person always has the responsibility for cooking. It is also commonly a problem deciding on what meal to make and what we need to buy from the store. We stock up a lot, so for the most part we can make just about anything you'd want to have since… Read the rest

The Weekly Finance Checkup – My Procedure

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Every weekend I spend several hours working with our finances. When I do it every single weekend, it's a lot easier. When I miss a weekend, there's twice as much data entry. Although it's difficult to make myself sit down every single weekend, it definitely is less time consuming to do it every weekend. Here's how a typical session goes: Open Quicken. Open my Excel billing spreadsheet. Log on to all accounts and print out the transactions that have occurred… Read the rest

Getting Your Credit Report, The Old-Fashioned Way

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I'm sure everyone knows by now that we are entitled to our free credit reports (not the score) through AnnualCreditReport.com. But what if you don't have a computer and can't go online? My mom doesn't have a computer and asked if I could check her report today. We went through the steps, but come to find out they don't have her on record. I looked through the site for the information she needs to call or apply by USPS mail.… Read the rest