Give Me Back My Five Bucks

The up side to this recent flurry of action on my blog is that my site stats have more than doubled my previous day’s totals. So, woo hoo! :)

A lot of people have been leaving comments about how my blog has shifted focus, how I’m spending too much, how I’m boring now, how I have a shopping problem (?), how I’m just “a regular 9-to-5 drone,” and how I’m not doing the things I was doing two years ago, or even last year. Situations change, people change, and I have to adapt. So when I started this blog, I was in debt. Then I got out of it. Then I lost my job. Then found a new job and moved to Vancouver. Then I got a better job. … Continue reading →

Ever since I moved in with BF, I’ve used my cell phone less. I just analyzed my last 4 months of usage, and I’m averaging less than 150 minutes per month – TOTAL. I use my office line to make calls during the day or e-mail friends … and during the weekends/evenings I’m usually with BF. I currently pay $18/month for my cell phone (200 anytime minutes + unlimited weekends starting at 6pm), plus $5 for unlimited evenings (starting at 6pm) and $6 for 125 sent text messages. After all fees and crap, my bill comes to around $42. Well, … Continue reading →

So, last night I bought a new car – a 2010 Suzuki SX4 AWD. I pulled the Car Cost Canada report on the car (which cost me about $40), but in the end because of that report, I got over $1,000 off the price of the vehicle – and there was only a $1,500 difference between the wholesale price and the MSRP. Whether that wholesale price is entirely true or not, I don’t know – but that was what was in the report, and I’m happy with the negotiating I did. The price of the car came to around $25k, … Continue reading →

So I’m into Week #3 of bringing my lunch to work, and it’s going well. I sometimes have the urge to just go out and grab Subway or a burger or something, but it passes. And it gets easier. Still, it’s sometimes hard when most people in the office go out to buy their lunch every day. Right now, I’m eating a piece of fruit in the morning (around 11am), lunch around 1:30pm, and another piece of fruit and a granola bar around 3:30pm. Then I get hungry again around 5:30-6pm, but that’s about when we have dinner anyway. I … Continue reading →