Category Archives: Just Stuff

AGH. Car Repairs That Weren’t Expected. You Know It.

Just Stuff
That's how it usually ends up, isn't it? Car repairs come when you simply aren't expecting them and they can wipe out a respectable emergency fund in no time flat. I mentioned last week that I had to get the air conditioning fixed on my vehicle and it was going to cost $250, then it turned out to be $800. Well, the good news is that the cost for repairing it did stay at $800. The bad news is, something… Read the rest
Authentic Handmade Navajo Indian Hummingbird Earrings

I Finally Found a Gift for My Boss that She Likes

Just Stuff, spending money
Every Christmas my boss buys me a gift, gives me a gift card and also gives me a gift and a gift card for my husband and my two sons, AJ and Big A.  Of course I feel obligated to reciprocate, but she's not very easy to buy gifts for. One year I gave her a bath tub pillow along with some homemade bath salts. While Len Penzo says you should never give bath salts as a gift, I say… Read the rest

Where In The World Have You Been?

Just Stuff
I saw this post first over at Funny About Money's, and then at Revanche's A Gai Shan Life and thought I'd share here. I have done hardly any traveling in my 47 years, and Virginia, Illinois and Colorado were states we happened to be in for our vacation to Washington, DC. The visit to Illinois was brief, three hours in the airport.  Colorado was even briefer, about half an hour. But hey, I can still say I've been there, right?… Read the rest

My Guest Post at The Digerati Life

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My guest post at The Digerati Life is up – Baking Cookies and Sharing Them in a Cookie Exchange! Thank you SVB for including my post today! I'm feeling better, but life has totally got into the way of blogging. First the head cold helped none with regards to actual coherent thinking, and then our audit was being conducted at my job this week and in addition to all my own work that has to be done, I also had… Read the rest