Monthly Archives: June 2008

Day 291: Movies, Gifts, & Groceries

Well, I think I’ve finally recov­ered from the virus that so vio­lently attacked my body a few weeks ago.  But, Dear Read­ers, I feel so awful and my finances reflect that fact.  I’m not quite sure of the reason(s) behind my cur­rent state of ill-health but I sus­pect it has to do with the quadruple-whammy of [...]
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Day 290: Stock Market, Gas, Shampoo, & Late Night Wendy’s

Share­builder — $200.00 I bought another $196 worth or 6.7377 shares of GE stock through my Share­builder account (that’s my $200 less the $4.00 fee).Over the past 8 years I’ve made a num­ber of small ($100 — $200) pur­chases of GE stock and now have a grand total of 25.2054 shares.  Since GE is close to being [...]
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Day 289: Milk, Gas, & Chipotle

Vit­a­min Cot­tage — $20.86 gal­lon of Hori­zon 2% milk — $5.39 2 #s Hori­zon salted but­ter — $4.99/ea. 2 cans Crown Prince alba­core tuna — $2.49/ea. Safe­way — $40.46 I filled up the Impreza’s gas tank:  I pumped 10.378 gal­lons at $3.899/gal.  The odome­ter on this car reads 26,255. Chipo­tle — $4.41 A large que­sadilla with extra chicken for din­ner for The Daugh­ter tonight.
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Still Down and Out With The Flu

Five full days now and I’m still inca­pac­i­tated with some sort of flu bug.  The Son is in full-suffer mode along with me (he’s been sick for three days now) and today The Hus­band came home sick from work.  The Daugh­ter has decided she’s not going to catch it.  I say more power to her [...]
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Dear Readers — don’t give up on me just yet

Dear Read­ers, First, let me express how deeply touched I am by those of you who reached out to me via email to see if I was okay.  It did my heart good to know that there are peo­ple out there read­ing my blog and who care enough to check up on me. Sec­ond, let me put any [...]
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