The Writer Bee

This’ll be short, but I just wanted to jot a short post and throw out a big “howdy-do” from New England!
I have this week off from work which is just as fabulous as it sounds.  Most of the week I’m actually spending up here in Beverly, Mass. - a small town on the North Shore [...]

…hopefully comes back down.
I know I’ve been remiss in writing lately.  My bad.  Really.  I’ve been crazy busy doing stuff and work and then my WW has not gone terribly well the last couple of weeks.  2 weeks ago I had only lost .2 pounds.  Still a loss, I know, so I celebrated it just [...]

So it’s been just about a year since I wrote my last entry concerning my ex who keeps turning up like a bad penny - incidentally, does anyone know where that saying came from?  What exactly makes a penny “bad”?  I’ve always wondered that…  Isn’t a penny saved also a penny earned, and isn’t that a good [...]

Naturally I’m talking about gas prices which, it has recently been reported, are expected to soar up to levels as high as $4+ per gallon. Last time I filled-up in NJ I think I paid $2.92 but it’s gone up since then.
Some of my coworkers and I were discussing yesterday that, for some of us, [...]

Well, it’s been my first full month of listening to Dave Ramsey and of plan/budget implementation. So far everything’s been going really REALLY well…
My official plasectomy* took place on February 15, but I had stopped using them on January 27. My full-out budget started around the same time I made confetti out of [...]