No Spend February

I'm officially declaring February a no spend month for me. These past few days have been quite costly. Let's see, I purchased the complete series for HBO's The Wire, I paid for my spring semester course, and I signed up for AAA. I wont mention the household items I purchased as well. Yeah, I need at least a month of no spending. And now that I think about it, this month has been an expensive one with Hubby's birthday and all, even though it was planned for.

I've never been one to adhere to a strict budget; instead opting to be mindful of how much I spend and what I spent money on. Pacing my expenditures works best for me. But next month I'm gonna go cold turkey and limit my spending.

These are the items I vow to not purchase during the month of February:

clothes
shoes
accesories
dvd's
cd's
hair products
household - unless we are completely out

There are seven days left in the month, and I'll try to begin Monday. I don't expect to spend much the rest of this weekend, although I might go out tonight and I'm meeting a friend for lunch tomorrow.

Everyday I'll do a post and detail what if any monies were spent.

Wish my luck!

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Cute commercial

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I'm excited about my spring class

Here's the information posted so far for my srping class:

Class Announcements for Contemporary Issues in Accounting Practice

Welcome to ACCT 495 - Contemporary Issues in Accounting Practice - Spring 2009Congratulations for your educational achievements to date in accounting!

This is a culminating course that builds on concepts and practices learned from your previous accounting coursework. This course is a synthesis of various fields of accounting, e.g., Financial Accounting Managerial Accounting Auditing and Attestation Taxation Advisory ServicesStudents will apply this synthesized body of knowledge to a variety of business cases, emphasizing research, communication of financial information, critical thinking and risk management.

There are no tests or exams, per se, in this class. The evaluation for grading purposes will be based on Cases, Projects and Participation. Please see the Syllabus for more information.

Please introduce yourselves in the appropriate Conference area of this website.IMPORTANT NOTE: It is a very good idea for everyone to check this class website regularly...I will post information about the class and assignments. All postings will be dated so that you can catch-up on past announcements that you may have missed.

Again, Welcome to ACCT 495!MGP*****************************************************

1-19-09 - Please be sure to post an introduction in the Conference area and download/review the Syllabus. The first assignment (Case study) is due on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - for those of you who would like to get a "head start" on the case, it will be posted in the Conference area during the first week of class.

Please let me know if there are any problems obtaining textbooks or other class "start-up" issues.

Thanks and best wishes. MGP

Did you see the bolded red items?????? I can't wait for the semester to begin........


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2 buy or not 2 buy????

Amazon.com has the entire series of The Wire for 81.99 with free shipping.......what do I do?

I paid $22 for season 1 and last I checked season 5 alone was 54.99


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Inaugural Benediction

I've been hoping that the text of the inagurual benediction would be made public and availabel online somewhere and yahoo heard my plea. I enjoyed the ending of Rev Lowery's benediction where he stated:

"Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around ... when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen."

So I just had to post it.

Hope you have a GREAT DAY!


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Twitter what? Twitter who?

And I fell for it......yep you guessed it I'm on twitter now. I'm such a follower, but I was curious and you can't just peek in you have to join. So I signed up. Not sure what I'll do with this new form of communication.

I tried to upload a pic, but um all of my existing pics are too large.


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Payment due 1/22

I finally registered for my spring 09 semester class last week. I encountered a few problems the week before when I attempted to drop one class and add another class. Somehow the online system had my account as being on hold, but no one else saw the account in that status. I decided to give the system a few days to get some act right, which led to my registering last week. At any rate the payment is due tomorrow 1/22/09......guess when I'm gonna make the payment, yep you guess it tomorrow. I'll wait until minutes before I'm set to leave work and make that payment. Why do folk do that.........LOL

This is the class I'm registered for:

ACCT 495: Contemporary Issues in Accounting Practice (3) (Intended as a final, capstone course to be taken in a student's last 15 credits.) Prerequisites: ACCT 311, 321 and 422 and BMGT 364. A study of accounting that integrates knowledge gained through previous coursework and experience and builds on that conceptual foundation through integrative analysis, practical application and critical thinking. Emerging issues in accounting, business transactions, and financing are considered. Web accounting and business technology, accounting theory, and management techniques are used to research and analyze developing issues in the workplace. Topics include e-commerce, financial derivatives, balanced scorecards, and the changing nature of financial reporting and risk management.

This is also the class I read about on the accounting forum for my school that stated the professor doesn't give a final exam, but requires several papers throughout the semester. I'll take writing papers over an exam any day.......even though I don't like writing papers either, but it's the lesser of the evils.

Happy Hump day........


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WOW

Wow, is all I can say right about now. I'm still in a state of awe at today's historical event.

I've been in the house now for about 2 hours and I'm at a loss for words.

I did venture out today to watch the ceremony at Peachez Cafe & Lounge. And I have to admit I almost cried, there were several moments where tears spilled down my face. Other times I had to dab my eyes; it felt good seeing the official transition to a new executive.

And as I sit in the comfort of my home watching the parade, I'm still in awe at the crowds and how many people came out to be apart and witness this historical event.

I'm so grateful and thankful to be alive to experience this historical event.

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Inaugural Ceremony

Hubby plans to travel into DC to watch the ceremony. Me? well I have no plans on going anywhere near DC.......I've received a few e-mails from a few places (lounges) that plan to show the ceremony on TV's. So with that I'm left to debate where to go........I could try a new place:

Peachez Cafe & lounge

Half Note Lounge

Or I can go with a regular spot I frequent:

Red Sky

Where should I celebrate is the dilemma........

I guess I'll let you know in my post tomorrow.

I hope you plan to watch this historic event, have a blessed day!

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I'm so glad.....

that I had/have these two extra days off........I was hoping for some extra sleep today, but my niece came over last night and she didn't want to go to sleep! She actually fought sleep until 2 am. I had to turn the tv off and leave the room for her to go to sleep. And I'd been out of the room for 5 minutes and came back and she was knocked out. It was really funny.

At any rate, a recap of my weekend so far........a good part of Saturday was spent in the house washing and styling my hair. It took about an 1.5 hour to wash my hair. The conditioner made my hair feeling weighed down, so I had to re-wash and condition. And that created less time for me to do a roller set, which meant my only option was to blow dry........urgh! I don't like wearing my hair straight. But I forged on because I had plans........

The comedy show was due to start at 8, so I ran out the door about 7:45 and I arrived at 8:20pm.......the set up was decent, appetizers and some drinks were included in the $30 price. But all the food was gone by the time I got there. Oh well, I got one drink and it was time for the show. The first two comedians cool.....but the last three were really funny.

The night ended not so well.........I got a flat tire (the same tire that was plugged in Deep Creek Wednesday), there was trouble getting one of the lugs off subsequently problems getting the donut on. And then the donut was flat.......ARGH!

I finally made it home about made it home about 2:15 am, when the comedy show was over at 11 pm. So I was up early Sunday morning in an attempt to get the tire fixed, so I headed to Sears where I was told the tire stud was broken and they couldn't fix it until Monday when the brake guy comes in. I then went to NTW and they couldn't do anything because it was Sunday and their parts run was done for the day. They put the tire on, but an hour later something else went awfully wrong and the car had to be towed to NTW.

Today I picked my car up to the tune of $208, of course they found other stuff to charge me for. But I have my car back, so I'm mobile again............

And now I'm sitting debating where I'll watch the inaugural ceremony tomorrow.

Hope you had a great weekend, I have one more day!!!


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