So by now, if you’re in the U.S., you should have either finished your taxes or requested an extension. If you haven’t, stop reading this post and go get an extension! Okay. So, those of you left, how were your taxes this year? Did you owe a lot of money? Did you get a lot …
So I have a mortgage. It’s shiny and it’s all mine. When I got the mortgage, I made sure there were no pre-payment penalties. In fact, my mortgage company seems to encourage extra payments. They even make it easy to specify where the extra money goes (you always want it to be applied to the …
So as you have probably heard, Congress finally got their act together and the government remains open for business. Nothing like last minute. I was actually going to have to come to work today anyway, so nothing really changes for me personally except that I will get my paycheck on time. As I mentioned though, …
As I have discussed here before, I’m a Federal Employee. And I’m not sure how much press this is getting outside of the DC Metro area (the DMV as it is often called, though I believe that acronym is taken by a much more painful entity), but we’re looking at a government shutdown. Why? Because …
For me, the most stressful part of my move was how I was going to move the two cats. While I knew that the boxes would all make it to the house, and I trusted the movers to take care of the furniture, but the cats were a different story. Some cats do fine going …