My boyfriend is on the board of the National Border Patrol Museum and we are in El Paso for a couple of days while he attends a board meeting. I'm enjoying the luxury of two days with no claims on my time. I normally hate to be in the stores this time of year but, with my Christmas shopping done and my time my own, I haven't minded it.
Yesterday I took my car to have the windshield replaced and received excellent customer service. Not only did Alamo Auto Glass do the job for less than half the price of the other estimate I received, they were happy to give me a ride to a nearby shopping complex and then retrieve me when the work was done. They were cheerful, helpful and friendly and, as far as I can tell, did an excellent job. After two years of driving around with a badly cracked windshield, it's nice to see clearly again!
I have a few more errands to run today. It's nice not to have to be anywhere or do anything except what I feel like doing! We're heading home tomorrow. I'll have him with me for a couple of weeks before he heads back to the frozen north.
Carnivals and other good reading this week -
Finding Friends appears in the Carnival of Positive Thinking at Widow’s Quest. The Change Blog has another good article, this one on “Why Self-Awareness is Fundamental to Personal Growth (and how to cultivate it)”. Also, check out “Overwhelming Workload – Yes You Can Do It!” at Empowering Mom, a good blog that I’d not stumbled across before. In this article she writes about the difficulties of balancing work and home life when you work from home.
Some Myths About Couples and Money appeared as a top ten pick in the 42nd Money Hacks Carnival at Financial Wellness Project. This is a big carnival. Tough Money Love wrote an article warning of the dangers of the cash-out re-fi in “Beware the Cash-Out Re-Finance”. Also check out The Personal Financier’s article on,”The Wine Industry: a lesson in marketing”. I detect a bit of reverse snobbery there but it is a good article.
Other good reading around the Web –
There’s a neat little video at Recycle Now that shows “Christmas Wrapping the Eco Way”, Furoshiki gift wrapping. You’ve heard tips about using fabric to wrap your gifts? This video shows you some techniques. I have a good deal of fabric leftover from my active seamstress days and am going to fabric wrap all my gifts this year. Here's my first go -
Living Almost Large wrote an excellent guest post at Sound Money Matters, which asks, “Is Money a Relationship Deal Breaker for You?”
Finding Friends appears in the Carnival of Positive Thinking at Widow’s Quest. The Change Blog has another good article, this one on “Why Self-Awareness is Fundamental to Personal Growth (and how to cultivate it)”. Also, check out “Overwhelming Workload – Yes You Can Do It!” at Empowering Mom, a good blog that I’d not stumbled across before. In this article she writes about the difficulties of balancing work and home life when you work from home.
Some Myths About Couples and Money appeared as a top ten pick in the 42nd Money Hacks Carnival at Financial Wellness Project. This is a big carnival. Tough Money Love wrote an article warning of the dangers of the cash-out re-fi in “Beware the Cash-Out Re-Finance”. Also check out The Personal Financier’s article on,”The Wine Industry: a lesson in marketing”. I detect a bit of reverse snobbery there but it is a good article.
Other good reading around the Web –
There’s a neat little video at Recycle Now that shows “Christmas Wrapping the Eco Way”, Furoshiki gift wrapping. You’ve heard tips about using fabric to wrap your gifts? This video shows you some techniques. I have a good deal of fabric leftover from my active seamstress days and am going to fabric wrap all my gifts this year. Here's my first go -
Living Almost Large wrote an excellent guest post at Sound Money Matters, which asks, “Is Money a Relationship Deal Breaker for You?”
It's 10:00am in El Paso. I guess I'd better get out of bed, get dressed and head out! This has been a lazy two days!
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment