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Budgeting My Time

Usually, I’m pretty good at budgeting my time, but as of late, I’ve been feeling pretty overwhelmed.  Blog entries are getting written late and I still have to finish my Year in Review posts.  I can’t forget about the last half of 2009.  There were some pretty good days in there!

I know that I’m not [...]

Health Care Expenses

Yesterday, I sat down and tried to figure out how much money to put into my FSA for the year.  For those of you who are already confused, in brief, an FSA, or flexible spending account, is a way for employees to set aside a portion of their earnings pre-tax to be used for qualified [...]

Who knew toilet paper was such a big deal?

The other day, my roommate accused me of being cheap.  You see, we take turns buying certain things for the apartment – dish detergent, coffee, toilet paper.  The stuff we both use regularly.   There’s no set rule on brands or anything, though if I went and bought 18 rolls of toilet paper, she couldn’t go [...]

Worried about BPA?

Last summer, with all the news about BPA leeching into liquids stored in various plastic water bottles, many people ditched their Nalgene bottles for the new BPA free Nalgene bottles or for another type of bottle.  One popular alternative was the aluminum SIGG bottle.  I admit, I bought two – one for work and one for [...]

More about saying no

I had an interesting conversation in my training this week.  We were going around and sort of trying to help each other solve our work-related problems.  I couldn’t come up with anything good for an 8 minute discussion, but after listening to someone become a workaholic, an idea popped into my head.

I have a coworker [...]