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Note to self: I’m a disgusting pig March 28, 2008

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I just inhaled a month’s worth of chocolate in about 14.6 seconds.


February-March Lunch Challenge: Week 6 March 28, 2008

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I’m posting this a day early – I’d better not get any replies to this until the 31st!!! :) I’m not sure when I’ll be back on Monday, and I doubt I’ll be able to secretly post to my blog while I’m in Calgary this weekend … so here it is.

Can you believe we made it through 6 weeks of this challenge!? WE’RE DONE!!!

For me personally, this challenge got easier and easier as each day passed. It became habit to pack my lunch the night before, and now that I’ve done it for 6 whole weeks, I’m going to keep doing it into the future. Sometimes it’s tempting when my co-workers come around and ask if I want anything from whatever restaurant they’re picking up food from … but it’s in the best interest of my wallet and my waistline if I bring my own food. Plus, most of the food they go to get is fast food … and some of them buy their lunches every day! How do they afford that!?

Anyway, please leave a comment and tell me how you did this week, and also maybe your thoughts of the whole challenge in general – did you find it easy or hard? Did you save a lot of money? Are you going to try to bring your lunch more in the future? I would love to hear your feedback!

And congrats to everyone who participated – I’m impressed and so proud of you all! :) Also, you still have until the end of Monday to sign up for the April Budget Challenge. So far, we have 42 participants.


Job perk: free event tickets March 28, 2008

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One of the perks of this job is that we’re very involved with media, entertainment & sports, since we are quite a reputable organization. Anyway, my boss gave me 2 free tickets for BF and I to go to a show out on Granville Island. I’ve never heard of this show before, but he swears that it’s hilarious as anything … so hopefully BF will want to go with me, as I don’t exactly know anyone else in the city and it would be a shame to waste comp tickets. Even if it does turn out to be a stupid show. I looked into it, and the only dates we can attend would be April 2nd or 3rd, because the show stops running on April 8th.

I know full well that I’m getting cast-off tickets that the senior managers don’t want, or can’t use … and I don’t mind. Free tickets to a few events are better than no tickets at all!


How do Alexa Rankings even work? March 28, 2008

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I don’t really get Alexa traffic rankings. I keep getting more and more visitors to my blog … yet my Alexa ranking keeps plummeting. It’s been nose diving for the past few months now. Not that I’m stat-obsessed with this blog (I totally am) … I just like understanding how and why things are happening. For example, my Google PR went up to a 4, and back down to a zero. I understand why that happened. But I don’t understand this.

And yeah, I’ve gone and read how Alexa rankings are calculated … but it still doesn’t make any sense. Given the steady increase in readership, my Alexa ranking should be getting better. At least, logically speaking it should. What gives?

Also something that bothers me about Alexa, why does my blog information say that this website is based in India? Is it where Google is registered? Since this Blogger and Gmail (the e-mail address that is attached to this website) is owned by Google? I’ve tried to edit the information, but apparently I can’t. I don’t even know how that info got there in the first place.


It should not be snowing this late into the year. Period. March 28, 2008

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It’s snowing right now. Not just a few flakes here or there, but big fat stupid flakes of snow. What the hell?! It’s APRIL! Well … it’s practically April. It’s more April than March, really.

This is so wrong.


March Goals: My Review March 28, 2008

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Well, it’s the end of the month, so here is my review of my monthly goals. I did surprisingly well … and it was mostly due to being able to make almost $300 in extra income.

Also, I watched the movie Juno for the first time the other night. I love love loved it!!

March Goals (end of month review):


April Monthly Goals March 27, 2008

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I have been so busy today at work. Literally, non-stop. It’s out of control, and I can’t wait until J and I leave tomorrow afternoon for Calgary. :)

Anyway, I decided to post my April Goals right now, since I probably won’t get a chance to update my blog on the weekend.

April 2008 Monthly Goals:

Tomorrow I get paid, so I’ll recap my March Monthly Goals and update my Networth IQ then.


Travel, travel, travel: the summer months March 26, 2008

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I talked to my boss, and he said that I’ll be able to go on vacation!!! :) So tentatively, I’ll be gone August 29 (evening) – September 10. It’s not the full 2 weeks I originally wanted to take, but I forgot I’ll need to use a vacation day this coming Monday 31st, as well as June 30th.

So here’s what I know so far about upcoming trips:

That is a lot of travel. The good thing is I’ve budgeted all my trips to the island into my regular monthly expenses, and work will pay for one of them … so that leaves Calgary, Seattle, Edmonton and my North Carolina vacation that are unaccounted for. Ugg.

I think I’ll have to choose between Seattle and Edmonton, because I don’t think I’ll have enough $$$ to do both. Although … it’s doable. Seattle will be relatively cheap b/c I’ll be staying at a hostel (I think), and I don’t have to go for that long either. Plus, ball games are super cheap. And Edmonton will be fairly inexpensive if we’re splitting the cost of renting a car & gas. We would probably only be able to stay 1 night there anyway.

***EDIT***
I decided to scrap the trip to Seattle, and just go down for a day trip … that leaves me an extra vacation day … meaning I need 1 more day in order to make it a full 2 weeks of travel. And I know I’ll have at least 2 days of banked hours earned during the summer … so I’ve decided to extend my vacation from September 10th to the 14th. Now, I will (almost) officially be gone from August 29-September 14th. I just need to get the days officially approved by Mr. Boss.

AND, as a bonus, BF said he might fly out with me at the beginning of my trip to spend the Labour Day long weekend with me in Florida … since round trip tickets right now are $384 CDN Seattle-Miami, all taxes and fees included. :)