People are talking about YouTube “hauls” videos, and with good reason.
Here’s my recent Walgreens haul:
generic kleenex
hair dye
Fem HRT prescription (I will let you look that up).
Other than, say a 24-hour Web cam on you at all times, could there be anything more intimate than emptying the contents of your shopping bag for all of humanity [...]
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(Hear the echo, run your finger through the dust.) First things first: maintenance. Once I figure out how to upgrade to the latest Wordpress version (Wordpress updates are relentless) without destroying comments (like last time), I’ll blog again. Meantime, bed for me, as reville is at 5:30 AM.
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Don’t you hate when a straightforward ‘to-do’ becomes a quagmire of extra steps?
Example A: Do a quick blog post. But I see I need to upgrade my Wordpress version. Which means spending some time figuring out how to backup files. And then getting an error message for the upgrade, which is going to require time [...]
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Ok, most of my blog posts are pretty personal. But this one concerns the slowed pace of blogging for me lately. I have been battling fatigue for a few months; I thought it was depression. It probably was. Now I think it’s the med they gave me to combat it. Some days I have normal [...]
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The Southwest Journal and the Star Tribune report today that the school district’s plan to close and “demagnetize” some schools for fall 2010 is “dead on arrival,” and that they want more specifics on the redrawing of district boundaries — particularly for open areas — before they vote on May 26th.
From the Strib:
(Board Chair Tom) [...]
From the blog Free Money Finance, here’s the best article I’ve read yet on saving money at the grocery store, written by a grocery store staffer as a guest post.
Enjoy!
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Because I’m on many deadlines this week, but hate to leave the blog just hanging:
Verizon Math Fail
It’s a fast laugh, even if you’ve already heard this recording of a customer trying to teach customer service reps about decimal points.
Favorite line:
“.002 what?!”
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This book arrived in the mail over the weekend, along with “Baby Fix My Car,” two in a series of anti-board books by Lisa Brown.
I thank you, mystery gift giver. And my kids thank you. Because seriously, they will love these. I love these. They are personal finance as visual haiku.
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Working on a few little changes here that seem to have messed with the post content. We’ll get it resolved soon!
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Just three years ago was a pretty good boom time for us. We had just our son in day care three days a week, I was going gangbusters with work and my husband had a nice bonus, too. We took out a home equity loan to get the house painted and have some landscaping done, [...]
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