Showing posts with label I Hate Money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I Hate Money. Show all posts

November 3, 2011

Make Your Neighbors Jealous!

October's Time Magazine had a few interesting articles about money. A spiff titled What To Stop Spending Your Money On listed these five expendatures:

Alternative flu remedies
Unlimited cell-phone minutes
Bottled water
Lottery tickets
Credit-card payment insurance

Articles expansion on lottery tickets:

LOTTERY TICKETS

The pitch: Win big! Never work again! Make your neighbors jealous!

The truth: According to Powerball, a player's odds of winning the big one are 1 in 195,249,054. The odds of dying from a meteorite striking the earth are 1 in 700,000.

The exception: If you're the MIT computer scientist who discovered a glitch in the Massachusetts state lottery.

Haa. Interesting.

November 9, 2010

Music Is Better For Me Anyway




Last Friday I decided I was going to limit my spending to $50/week.
[For everything, except gasoline.]


I've got $2 to last me until Monday.

Ahhhhh..


Why do I feel like buying CD's is more important that buying food?

November 6, 2010

Writing


I've got an 8-10 page paper due on Monday. And instead of using the last month and a half I've been given to do it, I've decided to wait until the weekend right before. Surprise.

Every time I think about writing my whole mind freaks out and shoots into a million different totally random and out of control sentences, thoughts, ideas, everything's that in no way relate to each other and cannot possibly be written down. It's so frustrating. Writing, or the idea of it, puts me into some sort of coma where all I can do is drink warm beverages and ..goof around on blogger. Bleh.

Does anyone else ever click 'Next Blog'? It's the best! I highly recommend it. I've become quite the creep lately, reading blog after blog. There are so many LDS blogs, it's shocking. Even more shocking though- there are tons and tons of blogs about different plant and animal species. Yeah.

On my quest to find life's itinerary, I've decided to leave the country. A few friends of mine are going on a volunteer venture and for a moment there I had decided to go with, I still might. But, it got me looking into study abroad programs. I'd be excited to participate in either opportunity, but deadlines for everything are coming up soon and I've no idea which to choose! Considering that I have no direction and I'm a third year in college, I should probably save my credits for completing a major, but at the same time- you can go on a study abroad for service learning experience or just to learn the countries language and culture. That sounds like the best. Doesn't that sound like the best?

After the purchase of my first ipod [a 4GB] ...and after the purchase of my second ipod [a 30GB], the phrase "go big or go home" really started to mean something to me. If I had just bought the 180GB in the first place, instead of being a wuss, I would have saved myself pain-in-the-neck itunes transfers, the inconvenience of not having enough space when I needed it, and most importantly--- money. I would have saved myself a lot of money.

I can relate this to most things in my life- whether it's really necessary or just provides justification, I'm not really sure sometimes. In this case, going to Central America would be the 4GB nano- it does not cut it, by so much does it not cut it. I do not need any 4GB's in my life. Going to South America would be the 30GB. Exceptionally better than the 4 GB, it would provide experience and would be cheaper than most places, as far as program and flight are concerned. It'd be cheaper, but not cheap. If I'm going to spend that much money to go there, why not 180GB it?

I've been dying to go to Africa for some time now and if a little extra will get me there, that might just be where I'll go.

We'll see.

PS. I think I've given up on wearing real clothes. Leggings+shirt is the most dressed I can get myself lately. Also, I've been eating healthier- no more boxes of zebra cakes or bags of Baby Ruths for me. [Ugh, saying that makes me really want some of either.] That picture up top is a meal I made myself- a real meal. One that wasn't nachos or taco soup. Oh.. and one last thing- I flooded my bathroom today. Yikes. I guess I should make sure the shower curtain runs off into the showering area.

August 16, 2010

- 2 Weeks -

I SO badly want to blog about the frustrations of my job. But as frustrating as it is, I'd like to keep it so.. that's why you haven't seen anything about it. Ha ha. I'll just say- I'm getting more hours now! Which is really great! And the more I shoot, the better I'm getting. I haven't sold less than $150 worth of product to anyone so far, which is good news! And I even sold our 2nd biggest package last time I worked! (: I'm proud of myself.

I can't wait for school to start. I've been working out finances, looking at my school schedule, setting up my work schedule, taking career quiz's to see what I should graduate in, and even starting to make grocery lists for when I get up there! I feel like summer just puts my life on hold and it needs to get going again!

My Fall work schedule is crazy. I'm going to be working from 5:30 [AM] - 10, then going to class, then probably [I haven't gotten my other schedule yet] working from 4:30 - 9:30 [PM]. Ah, I'm dreading it. 12 credit hours on top of that just might bring my mono back.. Ha. Yay.

Congratulations to:

Alonzo&Erin- Married!
Andee&Tyson- Getting married this week!
Lauren&Sean - Getting married this week!
Carly Hebertson- Engaged!
Kristin Gardner - Engaged!
Jarna Knickerbocker - Engaged!
Carly Hatch - Engaged!

[ WOW, that's a lot of people getting hooked up. ]


Life is good. Bye.