Weekly recap

This week was pretty busy for us and I haven't posted anything. Isn't it ironic how when you have things to write about you don't have the time to do it. Sigh.

Here's a smidgen of when we did last week.

• Wednesday we went to Michel's place to see Grandma Gaile who was in town visiting from Florida. Luckily for us she made lots of food because she wasn't expecting us until we phoned her on our way up.
  
• Thursday I taught a class on native plants to a Catholic women's group. I'm trying to get active with my Master Gardener group again.
  
• Friday we went to Connie's book group. We discussed "Golden and Grey" by Louise Arnold. I finished reading it to Miles and Ian in the nick of time.
  
• Saturday Miles and Ian went with me to get a load of compost from the dump. It was my Christmas / birthday present from Arden and Lorriane. I'm so excited that they now have a truck I can borrow!
  

• Sunday (today) we had dinner at Grandma and Grandpas. Melinda worked on making plans for our Passover dinner next Saturday.

Hopefully we can get more sleep this week. I am excited about putting the compost in the garden and to start planting. I guess I better get the wheelbarrow fixed tomorrow.

I also found a new financial plan that looks really helpful. It's pretty revolutionary, so it's pretty hard to understand at first. I think I need to re-read chapter 3 to figure out where this "saved" money comes from. I can't wait until my subscription to "Stop Buying Stuff" comes!

The quick and the dead

Melinda has officially given up her Quicken duties. When we were first married I took care of the finances since I had used Quicken previously on my old Mac Classic. However, she took over the money matters fairly soon, within a year or less. I did the taxes until about 3 years ago, but she has assumed that responsibility as well. (Personally, I think she didn't trust me or something.)

I must say, it has been a pretty nice arrangement. Melinda takes care of the finances and all of the health insurance stuff. She's been great about staying on top of things, which means I have less to worry about. However, recently our company switched health insurance providers again, and she got overwhelmed with the new system. Not to mention that homeschooling the kids takes a lot of time, and it's all to easy to get behind. Melinda had been feeling kind of tired of it all. Then the final straw was when I wiped out all of our data off the hard drive. We were without our PC for several days, and then I installed the latest version of Quicken (which looks quite different).

So looks like I've got Quicken duties again. But now I've got our bank and credit card accounts to download into the program automatically. Now there is less data input (hooray!) and lots of cool graphs and reports I can make. I think the new technology will keep me interested.

However, Melinda should probably be worried. It has a "cash flow" center that shows your balances. I think I may turn into a super tight-fisted miserly scrooge until I get the balance where I want it. Woo hoo ha ha ha ha!!! [evil laugh] She also now knows that I know how much she really spends for homeschool materials. THAT is truly scary.