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A Believe It Or Not Party
Thanks to everyone who showed up for the party. The dancing was memorable, as always. It was “A Believe It Or Not Party”, held because waiting for a big reason to celebrate was taking too long. Life shouldn’t be held … Continue reading
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Tagged dancing, employment, frugal, frugality, housing, investing, Kirkintilloch, Microvision, mortgage, MVIS, party, scotch, Scotland, Simple Living, stocks
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Poverty Recovery Retirement
Celebrate! This is worth much more than a cupcake. Today I wrote myself a check. The check was the largest I’ve ever written from my business to me. Maybe, maybe, I can convince the mortgage company to renegotiate my mortgage … Continue reading
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Tagged census, consulting, Dream. Invest. Live., entrepreneur, foreclosure, frugal, frugality, HCLE, housing, investing, mortgage, MVIS, New Road Map, personal finance, poverty, recovery, Retirement, Simple Living, stocks, wealth, Whidbey
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Dramastic
Isn’t the English language marvelous? It’s been said that it never turned away a word, so it arguably has the largest vocabulary of any common language. Besides, if Stephen Colbert can make up words, so can I. I made up … Continue reading
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Tagged bonds, commodities, consulting, dancing, dramastic, foreclosure, frugal, frugality, housing, investing, mortgage, MVIS, New Road Map, personal finance, Simple Living, stocks, wealth, Whidbey
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Money And Life And Priorities
Posting past 9pm seems to be my new norm for this blog. Tonight’s schedule is set by something completely different, yet familiar. A dear friend had an accident and broke a wrist and an arm, and I have the honor … Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, health, health care, housing, mortgage, ObamaCare, sustainable, walk away, wealth
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Looking Better
How easy is it to hide stress? Not as easy as I thought. Evidently, I’ve been hiding it from myself; and evidently, I’m getting much better. Thank you to my neighbor for being so observant. That’s one of the powers … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Charity, consulting, entrepreneur, housing, philanthropy, photos, politics, unemployment, wealth
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Cupcake Celebration
I bought a cupcake. It’s been months or years since I’ve had a cupcake. Finally, a gluten-free one from the coffeeshop/bookstore across the street. It was time for a celebration. Anytime is a time for celebration, but it is easy … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, debt ceiling, foreclosure, GERN, Geron, housing, investing, mortgage, personal finance, shutdown, stocks, walk away, wealth
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Ideally Compromised Optimums
Think you can have it all? We know that isn’t possible. Even Bill Gates plus Warren Buffett can’t buy the world. Think you can do it all? That would be ideal. Imagine an empty to-do list, or a house that … Continue reading
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Tagged aerodynamics, Airplane design, Compromise, debt ceiling, Dream. Invest. Live., foreclosure, frugal, frugality, HCLE, housing, Idealism, Langley, mortgage, New Road Map, occupy, optimize, personal finance, Realism, rocket science, satellites, short sale, shutdown, wealth, Whidbey, writing
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Mortgage Mediation Weirdness
Just a quick post to keep folks up to date with the oddities that are the episodes of trying to remove the threat of foreclosure. (See Timing Good News Maybe for the prequel to this episode.) Well, that was certainly … Continue reading
Less Mailbox Wincing
I barely winced. Earlier this week I got out the checkbook, rummaged around for the bills, and paid them without wincing. Until recently, anxiety attacks lived on the periphery of visiting the mailbox, opening the letters, and checking my bank … Continue reading
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Tagged bills, Congress, foreclosure, housing, mortgage, personal finance, recovery, shutdown, wealth
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Ceiling Shutdown
I can envision, “Shut down the dance floor. This party’s over.” “Shut down the trading floor. The trading day is done.”. The only metaphor that comes to mind for shutting down a ceiling are the climatic scenes where the heroes … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, debt ceiling, housing, inequity, interest rates, investing, jobs, mortgage, personal finance, shutdown, Simple Living, wealth
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