Give Me Back My Five Bucks

A recent reader made this comment: ps said… If you have already closed your TD chequing account, then well, end of story. If you haven’t, then don’t, if you possibly can. The reason is that since you have had the TD account for so long, it is reflected in your credit score. If you close down your older financial association, you might hurt your credit score or so I’ve heard. You can find a lot more info on bankrate.com Is this true? I thought the only way a chequing account would impact my credit negatively is if I had a … Continue reading →

Well I’ve put the new header up. Yes, that’s my real wallet. Also, I had to borrow the money from the BF for the photo shoot, which is pretty funny. He actually kept saying “give me back my five bucks!” as I was taking the photos. It’s been really hard to keep this blog from him, since we live together, our computers are side-by-side, and I stole his $5 and started taking pictures of it for seemingly no good reason. Oh, and I’ve basically told him about the blog, but refused to give him the website address. But really, if … Continue reading →

Ugg, this is getting so frustrating. At home, the new layout looked great in Firefox, but now that I’m at work and viewing it through IE, it looks like crap on a stick. Most of the text looks smushed, and isn’t going the full width of the sidebar … but some things (like my progress bars) do utilize the full width. I’m not sure what’s wrong, and I don’t want to fiddle around with the layout because it looks perfect in Firefox. At least, from what I can remember, it looked perfect. And I haven’t even tested it in Safari … Continue reading →

While switching over to a new template, I forgot to save all my widgets, so I have to start my entire sidebar over again from scratch. I’m such an idiot. Also, my new template has some glitches to it. For example, if I make two posts in one day, only the last post will say the date it was published on. That really irritates me. Hopefully I can fiddle around with the CSS and fix it … or maybe someone who’s really into CSS can check out my code and help me out? The header graphic is hopefully only temporary … Continue reading →

I’m trying to switch to a new layout … something a little less generic. So please, excuse the mess if everything looks out of place and ugly.