From 444express
August 28, 2010 at 1:15 pm
As you know, I have recently written about the concept of making efforts to fit in or at least make a particular favorable impression. I discovered that tweaking the dress in ... (
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From 444express
August 21, 2010 at 10:46 am
After all, I did recently yell inside to the kids as we were leaving the house, "Look for my keys. They're either on my desk or on the dining room table.""oops...they're right ... (
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From 444express
August 20, 2010 at 4:31 pm
I'm not going to point fingers because EACH of us have done this at one time or another (I'd say 3 or 4 times a year maximum, but I've done it, too - hint hint as to who did it ... (
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From 444express
August 20, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Dog Ate My Finances explored this question on her blog. Instead of cluttering up her comments box, I thought I'd respond here since I had a lot to say. First of all, I am in ... (
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From 444express
August 19, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Little and big things coming in:(I'll try to start small)Watered the neighbor's plants and although the orchid blooms fell off (they do fall off after a while, right?) all other ... (
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From 444express
August 16, 2010 at 1:12 pm
What a tired old admonition that is... but so true.We used to love to visit a famous ice cream place and get their decadent sundaes. Till I started noticing: The bill is not ... (
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From 444express
August 15, 2010 at 11:10 pm
(gulp) are you sure you're ready to read this?Laptop: $951.87 (includes bag, and when you're going into the sciences you cannot get away with the WalMart "starting at $300, in ... (
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From 444express
August 8, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Back-to-school shopping, that is. Don't want to pay $50-$75 for those spiffy name-brand shirts or even $8 for their nice-enough-looking store-brand counterparts?How do you like ... (
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August 5, 2010 at 1:51 pm
In addition to the flaring of ill tempers I see on various message boards and blogs lately, this has been a strange week or so around here. Things seem to be resolved and then ... (
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From 444express
August 2, 2010 at 10:36 am
Well, some days, anyway. The words that come out of that man's mouth influence the state of my brokerage accounts and sometimes even my checking account from one day to another. ... (
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From 444express
July 30, 2010 at 9:51 am
What a "duh" question, huh? This is a follow-up to a removed post (the one with the two very different sets of photos of the same person, for those who were following.) Occasionally ... (
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July 27, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but I practically see red and my BP goes through the roof when I think someone is, through laziness or lack of conscience, trying ... (
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From 444express
July 24, 2010 at 8:30 pm
In honor of our stock portfolio which was good to us last week, take a look at some bee-yu-tiful coal, photo of which we captured just for you readers.See how hot it was today? ... (
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From 444express
July 22, 2010 at 12:10 pm
See the NWIQ (reconstruction zone) for the new information in bold. That relates to the asset line called "other."The bottom line should go up even more later today if stocks ... (
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From 444express
July 19, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Oops - Mint says I need $79,000, right now. And of course I should have been salting money away for years. And that's just for ONE kid. I'm not even going to calculate including ... (
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From 444express
July 19, 2010 at 12:58 pm
I am going to be out and busy for a while, and I'm not in a talkative mood at this moment, but I wanted to bring up the subject of appearance, grooming, and accoutrements and how ... (
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July 16, 2010 at 4:16 pm
From chatting on instant messenger just now:"(4:15:00 PM): It just struck me that our bills are so complicated that paying and tracking them is like running a small business. ... (
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From 444express
July 16, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Someone hit the calculator button too hard and entered $50M as $500M.Duh!Thanks, J.P. Morgan boneheads analysts. ... (
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From 444express
July 13, 2010 at 1:59 pm
The going is slow and unrewarding, (and both our assets and our liabilities have been unstable lately) but at least we are better off than a year ago. Our debts are a serious ... (
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From 444express
July 12, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Piney woods in the wiregrass region, pictured aboveMy financial future hinges, to one degree or another, on the sale of what you see in the blog header photo. It makes me a little ... (
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From 444express
July 9, 2010 at 1:26 pm
While some of us deliberate over features on our glasses, and have access to the best surgery in the world to correct what would have resulted in impaired vision or possibly blindness ... (
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From 444express
July 5, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Do you see the little rhinestones? I can't believe they came to $300 (the main expense being trivex Transitions lenses - the kind that darken as needed in the sun, doubling as ... (
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From 444express
June 29, 2010 at 3:06 pm
This is a soapbox issue for me because I have a daughter with a disability; it's a mild one, though - yet you should see the way children, in particular, stare, and adults sometimes ... (
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From 444express
June 28, 2010 at 9:39 am
Oh boy, now we'll have to see what happens. It's my best friend who doesn't always act like a friend. Obviously history would take too long to relate (when you've been best friends ... (
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