A Greener Just Another Drill: Those Damn Ends

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Those Damn Ends

Are you having more trouble making them meet?? Boy, I sure am.

Everyone is struggling right now, the way everything has gotten more expensive. I spent several hours this morning with my budget. What can I cut out? What can I cut back on?

The cell phone for the brother-going, so are is the insurance and a few other options.
Home phone-switching to a bundle with the cable company...if I can ever get through to them.
Credit Card (that I'm working like the dickens to pay off!)-promotional period ended...don't ya love when that happens! Need to switch it, again.
Car Insurance-increased $180 a year! shopping around...

I'll continue to ride my bike to work, work to keep the utilities down, eat local and shop for sales and bargains, I was thinking about buying a kayak...nope.

Jeeze...I make pretty good money, don't have kids or a big fancy house. How do folks do it!

I did get some nice free entertainment this afternoon. I rode my bike out and around the lake, about 16 miles and the lake miles are hilly! It was free, good for me and good for the environment.

4 comments:

Kathy said...: What do we do to save money in the budget?

*Shopping at Aldi's now and then
*No home phone
*No cable tv or satellite
*Lawn chair entertainment
*Drove old cars for years
*Clearance sales

Sounds like you have some great ideas! Keep up the good work. :); 2:08 PM
Cindy said...: I hear ya, it's very tough these days. I can't believe how much my monthly gas bill is - was $411.57 in June, haven't totalled July yet. I get some of that reimbursed, but it's still a hit. I too, do without. I can't tell you how many times I walk around, say Target, pick things up, carry them around for a while, and then go put them back. It's the fun of shopping without the final expense (:; 4:15 PM
MUD said...: We all do what we do and make choices on what we spend. My entire adult life I spent in the Guard and missed one weekend (at least) a month and two weeks in the summer so I could buy and fix up a 57 Chevy and to support my other hobbies. Hope you get it all figured out soon. Remember the poster that Grandma had on the back of her bathroom door. Happiness is wanting what you have not getting what you want. Love ya, MUD; 9:30 AM
Anonymous said...: good thoughts... unfortuately, i have no answers. if only i knew the person that could skew the lottery in my favor!

you up for a sunday not-so-early-morning ride? gb; 1:19 PM

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101 Things (or 48 Things, whatever)

1. Have lunch with Andrew at school.
2. Write an actual letter to both of my Grandmothers.
3. Plant trees in my backyard.
4. Serve lunch at a shelter.
5. Do a flip turn in the pool.
6. Go to the zoo.
7. Pick a light out for the kitchen.
8. Build a compost container.
9. Make a rain barrel.
10. Learn how to use a chainsaw.
11. Ride a tandem bicycle.
12. Water ski.
13. Go to Splash Cove with Andrew.
14. Organize the pictures on my computer...and back them up.
15. Wax my car.
16. Go to a drive in movie.
17. Take a walk in the pouring rain.
18. Learn to play a song on the piano.
19. Do another triathlon.
20. Ride another century.
21. Ride the entire Katy Trail again.
22. Catch a big fish with my Dad.
23. See Van Morrison live.
24. Pay my last payment on my last credit card.
25. Take a photography class.
26. Go 48 hours without my cell phone. (not while on vacation)
27. Go 48 hours without my laptop. (same)
28. Go a week without the TV.
29. Race my single.
30. Run 3 miles without walking.
31. Take my dogs to the dog park.
32. Attend a holiday service at church.
33. Bake a decent loaf of bread....from scratch.
34. Sew something.
35. Finish another Holiday Challenge
36. Camp with Andrew.
37. Paint a picture.
38. Race a double with Ed. (And we won!!)
39. Fly a kite.
40. Take and post 1 picture a day for 1 month.
41. Stay at Cruses Cabooses.
42. Sell something on Ebay.
43. Empty one side of the attic.
42. Build a piece of Furniture.
43. Visit little Saoirse Rae Thompson.
44. Go to the dentist.
45. Ride in a hot air balloon.
46. Stay in my jammies all day and watch movies.
47.Go on a trail ride.
48. Attend a Prarie Burn.

Words To Live By

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?'
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
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Those Damn Ends

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