Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the category archives:
Back in the day when I lived in San Francisco, there was a curious chocolate shop that had amazing sculptures in the window. A Transamerica building in white chocolate, A Golden Gate Bridge. Wildly colored tulips made of red, green, and pink colored chocolate. Specialty holiday windows like tons of Easter bunnies!
I read the story [...]
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My cousin has in-laws in the DC area. She sent me a text message out of the blue on Monday asking if I was free this week for dinner. Turns out I was! I left work pretty late, but picked her and her husband up and went for a quick bite/drink in Old Town Alexandria, [...]
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Digging one out of the draft archives for your entertainment. I am busy busy so I have nothing new for you guys. So enjoy. The Moby DJ set was late last September. (OMG I was out of my head with the old songs too. Really some DJ’s can make you cry with their awesomeness.)
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Now, I [...]
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Go read this article by Anya Kamenetz to understand the source of my ire.
I already know not to cash out my 401k. I but I had to do it anyway because of the stupid way the plan was set up not to transfer shares from one institution to another (which I would have done with [...]
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Ah… Internships. All of DC runs on the nefarious slave-practice of the unpaid internship. It sucks. Personally, I’ve never done it. I’ve always taken paid work, but being a grad from a local school, I have plenty of pie-eyed friends whose idealism for public policy, civics and government work ended up in DC working for [...]
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EDIT: Contest update. I forgot a deadline. As I am super busy, you have until Saturday, 1/12/2008, 6pm EST to enter by leaving a comment.
Today, January 7, 2008, Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge turns 2 years old.
What a long strange trip it’s been. Some of it good. Some of it bad. But always interesting.
What’s happened?
- I went [...]
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YUM!
Frugal Upstate, a blog I don’t read enough, has a post with suggestions on what to do with extra zucchini. Check it out. I added a comment with a zucchini soup a friend made for me. Very simple very easy stuff. Great if you have a garden full of them!
I love vegetables from the garden. [...]
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Ms. MiniDucky called me out in her post about loaning her parents some money for a new business venture. This took some time and soul searching for me. I don’t usually respond to direct solicitations for advice. I’m not an expert on financial matters. I’m not professionally trained, but I think she’s asking me because [...]
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In a small way, this article on co-housing makes sense, but it also seems silly to give a new name to an old idea.
For a while, when it looked like most of my generation was living in NorCal, our parents talked of getting a compound and living all together they way they used to in [...]
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Nina has a thought-provoking post at Queercents about the Big Money Fight.
Many years ago when I was in college, I was dating my cousin’s best friend. He was Korean-American too and the second son of his family. He was double majoring in Finance and Electrical Engineering. ‘Round about graduation time, we had the talk about [...]
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