So it's that time of year again. Time to do the taxes. Which means I have to actually find all of my tax stuff. Every year I say I'm going to file my tax stuff in one folder. I even have a red folder labeled "Current Year Taxes" in my filing cabinet. The documents in the folder are 3 years old. Whoops. So now I have to find my 2007 tax stuff. I have a vague idea of where everything is, but it will take a bit of hunting.
I checked my savings account yesterday and my rate has gone down almost an entire point! What the hey! Did ING e-mail me about that? Of course not. They are happy to e-mail me when my rate goes up, but not when it goes down. I'm on www.bankrate.com trying to find a better rate. 3.65 APY is just not cutting it, ING! Looks like OneUnited Bank is offering an account with a 5.30 APY. Much better, and Bankrate.com gives OneUnited the same number of stars as they give ING!
How does Ben Bernanke cutting the federal interest rate benefit me in any way? The stock market is tanking and my 401K and Roth IRA are bleeding money. Now my savings account rate drops to 3.65. I'm finally at a point in my life where I've been able to save money, and now we're going into a recession, and for the first time in my life, I actually care!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
I keep thinking it's Scrabulicious
I have been playing Scrabulous on Facebook lately, and I'm currently losing a game 61 to 14. Only three words have been played so far - joy, jailer, and Zaire. Jailer was mine - worth a measly 14 points! I want to challenge Zaire as it is a proper noun and therefore illegal according to Scrabble rules. Scrabulous is just like Scrabble only you play it online. It's kind of like people who play long distance chess (people do that, right? Or did I just see it in a movie once? Searching for Bobby Fischer? Ben Kingsley is really bad ass in Sexy Beast....anyway...). Except in Scrabulous you play over the computer, and you can chat with your opponent if you both happen to be online.
Anyway, I'm currently losing one game and pretty much tied in a second game. I'm very competitive when it comes to board games. Nate and I can't play trivial pursuit together anymore, because he always wins and I always get mad. Ah well. Maybe if there were a Star Trek trivial pursuit I could beat him.
Anyway, I'm currently losing one game and pretty much tied in a second game. I'm very competitive when it comes to board games. Nate and I can't play trivial pursuit together anymore, because he always wins and I always get mad. Ah well. Maybe if there were a Star Trek trivial pursuit I could beat him.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Domo Arigato
According to this personality test, I am a
You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human. For instance, you are very humble and don't bother thinking of your own interests, you are very gentle and lack emotion, and you are also very introverted and introspective. You may have noticed that these traits are just as applicable to your laptop as they are to a human being. You are not like the robots they show in the movies. Movie robots are make-believe, because they always get all personable and likeable after being struck by lightning, or they are cold, cruel killing machines. In all reality, though, you are much more boring than all that. Real robots just sit there, doing their stupid jobs, and doing little else. If you get struck by lightning, you won't develop a winning personality and heart of gold. (Robots don't have hearts, silly, and if they did, they would probably be made of steel, not gold.) You also won't be likely to terrorize humanity by becoming an ultra-violent killing machine sent into the past to kill the mother of a child who will lead a rebellion against machines, because that movie was dumb as hell, and because real robots don't kill--they horribly maim at best, and they don't even do that on purpose. Real robots are boringly kind and all too rarely try to kill people. In all my years, my laptop has only attacked me once, and that was only because my brother threw it at me. In short, your personality defect is that you don't really HAVE a personality. You are one of those annoying, super-logical people that never gets upset or flustered. Unless, of course, you short circuit. Or if someone throws a pie at you. Pies sure are delicious.
To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.
3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.
4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.
Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Class Clown.
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Emo Kid, and the Haughty Intellectual.
This is highly amusing because my best friend often tells me that I am cold and heartless. For example (spoiler alert), at the end of the first Spiderman, I was really glad Peter Parker walked away from Mary Jane. My friend's husband took the test, too, and he is also a robot. Nate, however, is a Televangelist. Apparently Televangelists and Robots get along well. Who knew?
Robot
You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human. For instance, you are very humble and don't bother thinking of your own interests, you are very gentle and lack emotion, and you are also very introverted and introspective. You may have noticed that these traits are just as applicable to your laptop as they are to a human being. You are not like the robots they show in the movies. Movie robots are make-believe, because they always get all personable and likeable after being struck by lightning, or they are cold, cruel killing machines. In all reality, though, you are much more boring than all that. Real robots just sit there, doing their stupid jobs, and doing little else. If you get struck by lightning, you won't develop a winning personality and heart of gold. (Robots don't have hearts, silly, and if they did, they would probably be made of steel, not gold.) You also won't be likely to terrorize humanity by becoming an ultra-violent killing machine sent into the past to kill the mother of a child who will lead a rebellion against machines, because that movie was dumb as hell, and because real robots don't kill--they horribly maim at best, and they don't even do that on purpose. Real robots are boringly kind and all too rarely try to kill people. In all my years, my laptop has only attacked me once, and that was only because my brother threw it at me. In short, your personality defect is that you don't really HAVE a personality. You are one of those annoying, super-logical people that never gets upset or flustered. Unless, of course, you short circuit. Or if someone throws a pie at you. Pies sure are delicious.
To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.
3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.
4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.
Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Class Clown.
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Emo Kid, and the Haughty Intellectual.
This is highly amusing because my best friend often tells me that I am cold and heartless. For example (spoiler alert), at the end of the first Spiderman, I was really glad Peter Parker walked away from Mary Jane. My friend's husband took the test, too, and he is also a robot. Nate, however, is a Televangelist. Apparently Televangelists and Robots get along well. Who knew?
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Parenthetical Thoughts
I really want to buy a slow cooker. Does that mean I'm officially a grown up?
People who talk loudly on the bus annoy me. Especially when it's the morning bus. And especially when they are talking to me.
Facebook is sort of fun, but I don't entirely understand it. I just recently started to understand how myspace works, but Facebook is harder. Does this make me old? It's kind of scary that there are thirteen year olds who know more about computers than I do.
I was thinking about making some New Year's resolutions. Did I put the apostrophe in the right place on "Year's"? Today I was at the supermarket and one of the aisles was labeled "Sock's". That is not right. The aisle does not belong to Sock.
Anyway, I was thinking about making some resolutions, but I heard on the news that most people don't follow through on their resolutions past February. So I thought maybe I should make some resolutions that are easy to keep. Sure, I want to lose 15 pounds, eat better, go to the gym more often. And as easy as it really is to stop stuffing my face all the time and commit 30 minutes a day to aerobic exercise, I have little faith that I can actually follow through on that.
So what resolutions are feasible? Not crossing the street against the light? I crossed against the light 4 times today. Curbing my road rage? That would be difficult. Driving is the only time I ever swear. I need that outlet.
I think I've decided on the old standard of "Try Something New". I'm thinking tennis. The only time I ever played tennis was in high school gym. It could be fun.
I hate running into people I know at the gym. Many people I work with go to my gym, so I tend to see people I know almost every time I work out (which honestly is not that often). I hate talking to people when I'm all sweaty and gross and wearing workout clothes. I also don't enjoy seeing other people when they are sweaty and gross and wearing workout clothes.
Okay, that's all the randomness I have in me tonight. I just don't have the energy to edit or devote time to any one of those thoughts. And I really suck at endings. I always want to figure out some cute, pithy way to end a post and it NEVER HAPPENS. Bleh.
People who talk loudly on the bus annoy me. Especially when it's the morning bus. And especially when they are talking to me.
Facebook is sort of fun, but I don't entirely understand it. I just recently started to understand how myspace works, but Facebook is harder. Does this make me old? It's kind of scary that there are thirteen year olds who know more about computers than I do.
I was thinking about making some New Year's resolutions. Did I put the apostrophe in the right place on "Year's"? Today I was at the supermarket and one of the aisles was labeled "Sock's". That is not right. The aisle does not belong to Sock.
Anyway, I was thinking about making some resolutions, but I heard on the news that most people don't follow through on their resolutions past February. So I thought maybe I should make some resolutions that are easy to keep. Sure, I want to lose 15 pounds, eat better, go to the gym more often. And as easy as it really is to stop stuffing my face all the time and commit 30 minutes a day to aerobic exercise, I have little faith that I can actually follow through on that.
So what resolutions are feasible? Not crossing the street against the light? I crossed against the light 4 times today. Curbing my road rage? That would be difficult. Driving is the only time I ever swear. I need that outlet.
I think I've decided on the old standard of "Try Something New". I'm thinking tennis. The only time I ever played tennis was in high school gym. It could be fun.
I hate running into people I know at the gym. Many people I work with go to my gym, so I tend to see people I know almost every time I work out (which honestly is not that often). I hate talking to people when I'm all sweaty and gross and wearing workout clothes. I also don't enjoy seeing other people when they are sweaty and gross and wearing workout clothes.
Okay, that's all the randomness I have in me tonight. I just don't have the energy to edit or devote time to any one of those thoughts. And I really suck at endings. I always want to figure out some cute, pithy way to end a post and it NEVER HAPPENS. Bleh.
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