Hurray for three paycheck month!
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| Wed, 09-02-2009 - 7:49am |
Especially when it coincides with "you maxed out your CPP" month, lol.
I had an extra $200 AFTER paying off all my bills AND my spending money AND my debt commitments (the amount that I am forcing myself to pay each month above and beyond the minimum). So instead of only putting $75 on the Brick card ($2000 no interest for 8 months on part and 15 on the other) I put $200. I have to get $1000 paid off in 8 months so there is no interest but I am going to try to get it all paid off in that time! I also kept another $80 for my trip to see my mom for gas and such (always comes up).
As an aside, my girlfriend and her bf were over last night and he mentioned that he has a tile saw. He thinks we could easily retile the kitchen in a weekend (I have all the supplies . . . I was going to do it with a friend last year but he moved and I don't have the equipment to do it myself). With BF gone for two weeks, its the perfect opportunity to tear apart the kitchen and redo the floors . . . for about $100!! Can't complain there!!!




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Oh I forgot October is a 3 paycheck month for my BF. That will come in very handy for our semi annual part of the mortgage due in November. That is good news, and it is soon!
Glad to see you are upping your efund.
I noticed it was a five check month this morning. I'm celebrating with you!
BTW, DH and I put ceramic tile in my mom's kitchen and breakfast nook in less than a weekend. I believe it cost less than $50 and the job looked fabulous. We put them in a diamond pattern instead of squared off and it looked like a hotel lobby when we put the potted trees back, LOL. DH did the measuring and cutting and I positioned the tiles and did the grout. I'd never done anything like it before and it was still a total breeze. Still looks excellent today, a decade later. Good luck with the project - you'll do great!
Sarah
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Hey you have not been around lately and I was thinking about you.
You are too, too kind! Wow! I actually disappeared to finish the last couple of chapters of my novel (writing, not reading). Then I had a brief hurrah and got sick. For a week, maybe more. And right after the balloons popped from my novel-finishing-celebration, I realized I had 25 chapters to edit - not once, but twice. (I edit, send to crit partner, she shoots daggers at me, and I edit again). I'm only halfway through that and it's a huge priority for me right now. BUT on top of THAT I had a dream - two nights in a row - that gave me a fabulous plot for a suspense. I've wanted to write a suspense for months and never "thought of anything." Well, the whole dang book played for me like a movie over those two nights so I've had a total blast writing it. Precious little time to work on it, but plenty of notes so I won't forget a thing. DH surprised me with a laptop on the same darn day I finished the book even though he had no idea I was writing one - much less finished - so that was timing if I've ever heard it!
Gotta give the guy credit, though. He walked into an independently owned laptop store and within a few minutes he'd worked out a deal with the owner. He had me make a list of everything I wanted in a laptop (so I found out about this before he put it in my hands) and got it for free in exchange for a tune up on the guy's van. (The dealership told him it needed a $4500 engine).
Laptop guy was happy b/c he was only out whatever he put into the laptop, which wasn't $4500. DH and I are happy b/c we only had to pay about $100 in parts for the van and DH put in a couple of hours of labor. As if that wasn't totally cool, THREE of LT guy's friends called for repairs to their stuff, so now we're really coming out ahead.
How's that for an update? LOL. Cakes still coming out of my ears - just did a Redskins cake and a Taco cake this past weekend - and business is TOO good. Not enough time to do everything else, LOL! I'm going to need to scale back a little on my nonfiction writing when school starts for the kids (they're homeschooled) but Plan R is still lurking. That will change our lives. (Heck, if we took all of the equipment we've amassed and sold it, we'd probably be debt free, LOL!)
Thanks for not forgetting me! I'll be back on track soon. =c) (((hugs)))!
Sarah
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You continue to amaze and inspire me.
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