It’s been a busy week…I didn’t do much posting this week, did I? The Thursday 13 took me forever, because I couldn’t find the time to scan pictures. And even then, I had some pictures for some of the places that I didn’t post, because I couldn’t be bothered. OK, I could be bothered, but not much. More interested in napping and cooking dinner in my free time. And I didn’t have a lot of free time this week…Monday is exercise day…long walk, then video work out, then yoga, and by the time I get home at noon, I’m ready for a nap, and then it’s time to pick up…

Casey from Live Your Art has a post of things that are making her happy right now.  They’re good things, simple and true.  I’m taking the idea and using it here, though I’m too lazy to take pictures.  Sorry. 1. My book, which I’ve been sort of ignoring for a  few weeks now, though I have had this niggling feeling that I would really get into it once I started…well, I’m finally starting, and yes, I’m finally getting into it.  Yay! 2. Spring is in full bloom, though the worst of the allergies have passed for now.  So it’s about baby ducks in our swimming pool (sorry, they never seem…

Thanks everyone, for your wishes and crossed fingers.  Didn’t get the job. Sigh.

The interview went…so-so. I did my best, I tried my best to convey my passion for this job, for the idea of it all. I think they heard me. But in the end it’s a sales job, and I don’t know sales. I have zero experience in it. But I think I could do it, and do it well, if I believe in the product, which in this case I very much do. We’ll see if they value enthusiasm over experience, or not. Word comes early next week. Sigh. (I used to read Cary Tennis’ column, Since You Asked, in Salon.  Loved it.  I think I should get back to…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syqOKjQiOsU[/youtube] Who likes to rock the party?  I like to rock the party! OK, I’m a bit giddy right now because I just had a rockin’ good interview for a job that I REALLY want.  At one point, I told the recruiter that she was making me drool, that’s how much I like the idea of this job.  And you know what?  It’s nothing I would have ever seen myself doing before, nothing I had ever thought about, and I have no real-life experience in it.  So what?  I’m totally qualified for the job, and I would go out and make it my OWN.  I’m excited by the idea of…

(picture found here) I heard an interesting podcast the other day on Planet Money, where a school teacher gave the broadcasters an idea on how to get your head around huge numbers.  Really huge numbers, like billions and trillions.  It’s true, it’s sometimes difficult to get our heads around how big really big numbers are.  So I started thinking about when money starts getting confusing for me, ignoring the tens and hundreds and going straight for the thousands.  For example, if I have $1, that’s easy to get my head around.  I would have no problem spending $1.  That’s not even enough to pay for a diet coke at 7-11.…

Hard to believe it’s Friday already.  This week sure sped by, didn’t it?   So. Grandma’s feeling a bit better, though not at all happy about going into assisted living, no matter how temporarily.  The silver lining to this whole thing is that she realizes that this might involve some money on her part, and so is cutting off my blood-sucking vampire of a cousin, who has been milking her and my Great Aunt dry for years.  Lining your pockets at the expense of old women on a severely limited income is tantamount to elder abuse in some circles, so this cutting off is very much welcomed by our entire family. …

Sorry for the little hiatus there.  My Grandma fell on Monday and broke her leg.  Doesn’t sound like a big deal, and it probably wouldn’t be in someone young.  But she’s 86, and her bones are so brittle, the doctor described them as eggshells.  He also described some of the risks of surgery on someone of her age, which scared us all a bit, and had my grandma making lists of what piece of jewelry she wants to go to go to which granddaughter, if she should die. Tuesday, she had surgery.  They put in a titanium plate, so she’s got titanium from hip to knee.  The surgeon said it…

(money photo found at Gourmet Gal) The first few weeks that I was out of work, I didn’t really change my spending habits much.  I had my final paycheck, complete with over 100 hours of PTO.  I had my severance, puny though it was.  I won’t say I was in total denial, but I was in partial denial.  I bought some clothes, thinking that I will need them when I start working.  Having worked from home for several years has put me in a bad situation in that department.  I stopped at the grocery store whenever we needed anything, and as often as not, I ended up leaving with a…

I keep hearing about people who are underwater on their loans, and who might walk away from their homes in order to save money.   I just read this on Yahoo, where four people who are underwater discussed their decisions to stay or not stay in their homes.  It seems a bit disingenuous to me, becuase of the four people they interviewed, they found two who would not walk away from their homes, and two who are considering it, but they didn’t interview anyone who is definitely planning it.  There must be some folks out there who are walking away from their mortgages, so why didn’t they get some of them?…

(front row: Liz, Tracy, and Cherry; back row, me and Dorothy) One upside of blogging is the wonderful people that you meet, and how they can go from being just comments on your blog to being people that you genuinely care about, and sometimes, people that you get to meet in person.  Cherry, Liz, Dot, and I were friends before we started blogging.  We used to work together in a previous life, and happily, we’ve stayed friends all these years later. We’ve made friends with Tracy and Gina through blogging, and we’ve been fortunate enough to meet them in person.  Cherry and I went to Tracy’s wedding shower, and Cherry…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glNjsOHiBYs[/youtube] Happy Birthday to a wonderful Sister-In-Law, La Luna!  I hope all your birthday wishes come true. (The recording is from when the Beatles were on a BBC show called “Saturday Club”, which is who they’re singing Happy Birthday to.  In case you’re trying to figure that one out.)