It's been a while.
Did I save that money for the nook color? Nope...I knew I wouldn't!
I was supposed to move out of state, I never got that ball rolling : /
Lots of personnel changes going on at work. We are about to emerge from bankruptcy and the new owners are preparing to take over and we are preparing for their takeover.
2 great accountants left, accounting department is "FOCKED" Neither stayed their final 2 weeks because the Interm VP is, according to them "Lucifer". How do I fit into this? My ever persistent supervisor suggests I put in for the payroll accountant position. Not because I'm horrible in payroll, but because she is the type of person that wants to see you advance with in a company. So I take the bait, stupid me! Why stupid? Because as I said before, the payroll accountant wasn't there to train me, it's month end close and my brain hasn't done anything remotely close to accounting since I graduated college in 2007. And to make it even better, being the wonderful person that I am *rolls eyes* I'm helping in payroll until they find a replacement for me. SO as I'm typing this, I have blown the dust off my books from school trying to refresh my memory...it ain't working! My head hurts...relearning sucks.
I'll be in Florida in 12 days...yay for me. I'm really looking forward to leaving this cold weather behind for 5 days.
Well, I'm off to Walmart to buy a nook color, they are on sale today for $199, you can't beat that, its $50 in savings...B & N must be trying to keep up with Amazon's Fire...
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Operation Nook Color
My mom is such a killjoy.
Like a kid, I look forward to eating out once a week, it's something I like to do with the kids since we did it when their dad was alive. She's been getting at me for the longest to cut them out and I've kept saying no, this is what we do. Based on the restaurant, dinner for the 4 of us ranges from $25 to $40. Mom suggests cutting dining out to once a month and saving the other money. I had to remind her that eating out has been cut from 4 times a week to 4 a month since she has been here....guess that wasn't god enough.
So I thought about it. I need $350 for a nook color, protection plan, and cover. If we cut down eating out to once a week, that's $90 a month ( using a $30 average). In 3 months I'll be able to buy my nook color. This is by saving this money as well as cutting out buying breakfast and lunch during the week at work. (it was hard ass hell not buying lunch this past week)
Can I do it for 3 months? I dunno, but we are going militant with the savings jar....you can deposit, but you cannot withdraw. Super gluing the lid of a coffee container, and put the $30 in each Saturday. I think this method is extreme...I do not agree with it, but knowing me, I'll buy it before the 90 days because I do have the money, I just know what I can do with $350...like buy the kids school clothes and supplies (it starts in a month)
I like how I've just about talked myself out of the savings tactic. But I'll go a step further. I'll start saving this way and instead of stopping at 90 days, I will continue until the end of the year. Then on December 31, I will see how much has been saved. Theoretically it will be $600, that's $30 a week for 20 weeks. It may or may not happen. This is coming from the Person who was supposed to be putting away $4.00 a week when the kids started taking their lunches to school. Maybe I'll do that this school year.
Like a kid, I look forward to eating out once a week, it's something I like to do with the kids since we did it when their dad was alive. She's been getting at me for the longest to cut them out and I've kept saying no, this is what we do. Based on the restaurant, dinner for the 4 of us ranges from $25 to $40. Mom suggests cutting dining out to once a month and saving the other money. I had to remind her that eating out has been cut from 4 times a week to 4 a month since she has been here....guess that wasn't god enough.
So I thought about it. I need $350 for a nook color, protection plan, and cover. If we cut down eating out to once a week, that's $90 a month ( using a $30 average). In 3 months I'll be able to buy my nook color. This is by saving this money as well as cutting out buying breakfast and lunch during the week at work. (it was hard ass hell not buying lunch this past week)
Can I do it for 3 months? I dunno, but we are going militant with the savings jar....you can deposit, but you cannot withdraw. Super gluing the lid of a coffee container, and put the $30 in each Saturday. I think this method is extreme...I do not agree with it, but knowing me, I'll buy it before the 90 days because I do have the money, I just know what I can do with $350...like buy the kids school clothes and supplies (it starts in a month)
I like how I've just about talked myself out of the savings tactic. But I'll go a step further. I'll start saving this way and instead of stopping at 90 days, I will continue until the end of the year. Then on December 31, I will see how much has been saved. Theoretically it will be $600, that's $30 a week for 20 weeks. It may or may not happen. This is coming from the Person who was supposed to be putting away $4.00 a week when the kids started taking their lunches to school. Maybe I'll do that this school year.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
dream a little dream...
I've always been a dreamer. As a kid I would have weird dreams and then tell my great aunt's roommate about them and he would take the dream and play the numbers ( 4 men, 7 guns and a baby =471) and WIN...I swear I should have been getting kickbacks for that!
But anyhoo...a couple of weeks ago I had a dream: A co-worker tells a group of us she is expecting, we're excited for her, she's nervous because her daughter is already 10 but she is excited. I tell her the age difference was the same for Jalen and Jayson. Fast forward in dream to her ultrasound, she lets the group know she is having twins and her due date has been moved up by 4-6 weeks. So when she tells us this, I say "Oh, you must have gotten pregnant around the same time as me!" (Insert WTF face here)
A couple of days later, a co-worker has a dream about me. In her dream, we are at a grocery store shopping, then I go to the gate where the airplanes arrive (yeah you read right, terminal at the grocery store) and as I wait for my plane to land, we say our goodbyes....but the plane NEVER lands, it just circles around and around, but doesn't land!
A couple of days after this dream ANOTHER co-worker has a dream about me. In this dream I'm getting married (hahahahahah) but I ask her to help me pick my dress.I'm in my hotel room all made up, hair in an updo with a white flower and I'm in my robe. Both dresses are white, but one is a short cocktail dress and the other is a more traditional dress. I tell her I need her help because of the people who are attending the wedding....
With these dreams, everyone is like "yup, you gettin married and having another kid" WRONG AND....WRONG!!!!
But anyhoo...a couple of weeks ago I had a dream: A co-worker tells a group of us she is expecting, we're excited for her, she's nervous because her daughter is already 10 but she is excited. I tell her the age difference was the same for Jalen and Jayson. Fast forward in dream to her ultrasound, she lets the group know she is having twins and her due date has been moved up by 4-6 weeks. So when she tells us this, I say "Oh, you must have gotten pregnant around the same time as me!" (Insert WTF face here)
A couple of days later, a co-worker has a dream about me. In her dream, we are at a grocery store shopping, then I go to the gate where the airplanes arrive (yeah you read right, terminal at the grocery store) and as I wait for my plane to land, we say our goodbyes....but the plane NEVER lands, it just circles around and around, but doesn't land!
A couple of days after this dream ANOTHER co-worker has a dream about me. In this dream I'm getting married (hahahahahah) but I ask her to help me pick my dress.I'm in my hotel room all made up, hair in an updo with a white flower and I'm in my robe. Both dresses are white, but one is a short cocktail dress and the other is a more traditional dress. I tell her I need her help because of the people who are attending the wedding....
With these dreams, everyone is like "yup, you gettin married and having another kid" WRONG AND....WRONG!!!!
The first 2 dreams had me wondering, but the dress dream I knew meant I needed help making a big decision.
Co-worker #1 tells her mother in law about these dreams and first things she says is " Is this girl OK? why is she on yall's minds like this?" She goes on to tell her my dream means I will start a new relationship-that's what the baby's signify-BUT I will have 2 to choose from-the twins. The grocery-terminal dream meant I had to make sure everything was in order before I moved ...Now the dress dream---oooohhhh weeeee- MIL got HEATED!!! She said I better make sure my Ps & Qs were in order...
Needless to say all of this has me spooked. I was gung ho on moving to Charlotte this summer & my mom is excited and I have all but spoken my move into existence ...now I may put it off for 6 months to a year, hopefully no longer than that. I still want to move by September 1st if possible *sigh*
I guess this just gives me a few extra weeks to save, job & house hunt....wish me luck
Needless to say all of this has me spooked. I was gung ho on moving to Charlotte this summer & my mom is excited and I have all but spoken my move into existence ...now I may put it off for 6 months to a year, hopefully no longer than that. I still want to move by September 1st if possible *sigh*
I guess this just gives me a few extra weeks to save, job & house hunt....wish me luck
Saturday, April 30, 2011
April....
I'm still sucking at blogging.....
Jayson is still allergic to everything...he can now have soy, watermelon, & grapes...did a skin test for environmentals: he is allergic to cats
We are still moving to NC....due to some unforeseen personnel at work it may be pushed to August/September rather than June/July. Looking into renting for the 1st yr or so instead of buying, but my dad and sister are the King and Queen of "You Have to Own Property" so they aren't making this choice easy.....I say each give me 10k so I can make their dream come true.
I gave up beef for Lent. I'm not a devout anything by any means but it was a step to see if I could stop that completely, then I could give up my beloved bacon and occasional pork chop....BBQs won't be the same without rib tips :(
AAAANNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDD....
Jayson turned 1!!!!! APRIL FOOLS!!!!! He is sooooooo gonna get tired of that as he gets older
Jayson is still allergic to everything...he can now have soy, watermelon, & grapes...did a skin test for environmentals: he is allergic to cats
We are still moving to NC....due to some unforeseen personnel at work it may be pushed to August/September rather than June/July. Looking into renting for the 1st yr or so instead of buying, but my dad and sister are the King and Queen of "You Have to Own Property" so they aren't making this choice easy.....I say each give me 10k so I can make their dream come true.
I gave up beef for Lent. I'm not a devout anything by any means but it was a step to see if I could stop that completely, then I could give up my beloved bacon and occasional pork chop....BBQs won't be the same without rib tips :(
AAAANNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDD....
Jayson turned 1!!!!! APRIL FOOLS!!!!! He is sooooooo gonna get tired of that as he gets older
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| Getting in the way.... |
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| Getting ready to cut the cake |
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Hair
I have been loc'd for about 10 months now. I'm am at a love/hate phase of my journey-people love it, i hate it. Not HATE it, but they are being very unruly! There are days when I think my hair is amazing, then there are days where I have no idea what is going on up there. Since returning from Puerto Rico I have been wearing wide headbands *side eye to myself*, I think it is laziness on my part, but I really don't know what to do with it because it is at a wierd length. I've looked up styling videos but my non-hair-stylin' self can't seem to get my hair to remotely resemble their styles...I have rolled it on a few occasions, but the best it turned out was the first time...***sigh***
Here are a few recent pics of my hair :
This last pic looks a little "shaggy-doggish" to me, but it shows how much my hair has grown since the beginning:
Now my next step is color, I may wait a little bit longer, but I think I can bring in my 31st year snazzy...maybe blonde...maybe not....
Here are a few recent pics of my hair :
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| In San Juan |
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| Post-Ocean hair |
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| 3 weeks post PR no maint |
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| 9.5 month post wash |
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| The beginning May 15, 2010 |
return
Hey, how ya been, whatcha been up to?
I'm not good at this blogging thing, I'm a FB whore...yes I admit it.
What has happened in the past 3 months....hmmmm
New year, same Neev. Jalen is in the Art Club, Jada won 2nd place in the Science Fair for her class, and Jayson can have soy!!!!
I went to Puerto Rico for a couple of days in February and have been bitten by the tropical travel bug.
I've made up my mind to move to North Carolina, Charlotte to be exact.
This has been my random ramble, thanks for reading
I'm not good at this blogging thing, I'm a FB whore...yes I admit it.
What has happened in the past 3 months....hmmmm
New year, same Neev. Jalen is in the Art Club, Jada won 2nd place in the Science Fair for her class, and Jayson can have soy!!!!
I went to Puerto Rico for a couple of days in February and have been bitten by the tropical travel bug.
I've made up my mind to move to North Carolina, Charlotte to be exact.
This has been my random ramble, thanks for reading
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Slowly, but surely
My savings plan for 2011 has begun. Tuesday I got the email confirming what will be my weekly transfers into my designated savings account. I almost thought I did it wrong. WHY? I don't know, I've set up plenty of inter/intra bank ACH transfers in my day, but this one made me nervous. Now I can breathe easy, I guess 30 and a half (yes, I went there) isn't too late to get my monetary life right, should have done it at 27 when I got my new job. Oh well what wasn't done is done and I choose now to get on track.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
New year, same me
Another year, another dollar. That's what it's all about!
Might as well make this the year I stick to my resolution-Save money and repair my credit. Well, after my trip to Puerto Rico I will...
My whole super savings strategy started when I decided I was going to the St Lucia Jazz Fest back in October/November. I put in place a 3 month plan for January to March, it was lofty, but do-able. Since I knew I could pay for an international week of bliss in 3 months, I could stretch that over a year and go in 2012. (plus I won't need a passport to go to Puerto Rico, I can use that $160 towards my ticket)
I spent the majority of December creating and tweaking my budget and savings plan for the 1st six months of the year. I finally opened a Christmas Club account so from this year on Christmas shopping won't take place the 3 days before the big day! Luckily for me the majority of my savings will come from my tax return...I love EIC! As for that credit thing....little by little will get chopped away. I'm praying for the lottery so I can pay off creditors, Sallie Mae and move, but I will never be so lucky. This first month will be the hardest, but I know if I can survive January, February thru June will be a breeze.
I wanted to relocate, butI might put it off for a year, I need to gauge my current employers situation. I have even budgeted my relocation costs. Movers, credit check, security deposits-apartment & utilities, new furniture, cost of changing the plates/title on my car, just about everything...I put my little brain to work.Neev knows what she needs to move, give or take a thousand -LOL-
Now I'm off into savings oblivion so I can watch these zero balances grow to thousands....
Might as well make this the year I stick to my resolution-Save money and repair my credit. Well, after my trip to Puerto Rico I will...
My whole super savings strategy started when I decided I was going to the St Lucia Jazz Fest back in October/November. I put in place a 3 month plan for January to March, it was lofty, but do-able. Since I knew I could pay for an international week of bliss in 3 months, I could stretch that over a year and go in 2012. (plus I won't need a passport to go to Puerto Rico, I can use that $160 towards my ticket)
I spent the majority of December creating and tweaking my budget and savings plan for the 1st six months of the year. I finally opened a Christmas Club account so from this year on Christmas shopping won't take place the 3 days before the big day! Luckily for me the majority of my savings will come from my tax return...I love EIC! As for that credit thing....little by little will get chopped away. I'm praying for the lottery so I can pay off creditors, Sallie Mae and move, but I will never be so lucky. This first month will be the hardest, but I know if I can survive January, February thru June will be a breeze.
I wanted to relocate, but
Now I'm off into savings oblivion so I can watch these zero balances grow to thousands....
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