Weekend skimthrough

Had a great Labor Day weekend ^_^ Spent most of it in Woodbridge, either celebrating birthdays or with my new housemates (and a little of both ;) ( Saturday was the birthday party. )

( Sunday did some packing and actually got load number one of stuff down to Woodbridge. )

margoeve and elkor and I then headed back to their place, where I crashed for the evening after a shower and R&R. ( Monday we ran some errands and did some shopping )

Then it was sadly time for me to head back home to get ready for the week. Looks like it is going to be another busy one ;)

Thoughts About [Money]

Money is something that I have almost always had a hard time talking about. I think my parents were probably more open with me about sex than they were about money management. For example, my dad tried to teach me how to use Quicken and balance my checkbook and create a budget, but I don't remember us ever sitting down and having "The Talk" about finances (whereas I can remember that we did have "The Talk" about sex). So I had some of the technical knowledge of how to balance a checkbook and keep track of money, and I understood that I wanted to keep it out of the red, but beyond that I didn't have much. And I didn't really have any classes on the subject, either, that I can remember. We might have touched on it a little bit back in Family and Consumer Sciences (about 10 or 11 years ago), and I had one Econ class in college that was just painful for me, and that's about it. To me, investing and things like that were something that I would learn about doing "once I grew up."

It's slowly dawning on me that ( it is time for me to grow up about money )

To that end, I'd like to invite you to comment (anonymous is fine if you're more comfortable with that) on this and subsequent [Money] posts.

My Quote Of The Day

Taken from the manual for the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), referring to different ways to try opening graphics files with the program, "If you aren't sure whether you can do this, just try it. The worst thing that can happen is that your computer could explode."

I love manuals that don't take themselves too seriously, because they can address the serious stuff so much better ^_^