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July 3rd, 2008 at 06:31 am
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June 25th, 2008 at 08:22 am
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$20 Challenge,
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June 24th, 2008 at 07:21 pm
Today was a low key kind of day. We stayed in all day, and had a No Spender. Yay! We had a HUGE thunder and lightening storm tonight. It was beautiful.
Paid some bills today (July rent, July health insurance, phone bill, cell phone bill...). Earned no money. (Spent none, either, so I guess it works out). 
Still waiting on word from the 2 jobs I interviewed for. I am going to call both places tomorrow, kind of like a follow-up to my follow-up. 
In the meantime, I re-registered one a freelance website that I have gotten work from in the past and bid on one job today. Hopefully that will come through. (If anyone is interested (they have all kinds of work all over the country), let me know and I can send you a referral link.) I also applied for an Assistant Editor job I found today. And I ordered new business cards for my tarot readings. May not be much, or work out to anything at all, but at least I am trying. 
And I got another short project this week from my old job. Will only be a few hours, but it is better than nothing.
(Can you tell I am trying this whole new positive attitude thing!?)
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No Spend Days,
Work
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June 20th, 2008 at 08:40 am
Today I sent off my invoice for the freelance work I did this week and last week. It was for $750, which will help lot with bills when the check arrives. Problem is, the check will take about 45 days to get here! Ack! Maybe by then I will have a full time job and I can throw that whole check on the CCs. That would be awesome!
Still waiting to hear back from the 2 jobs I interviewed for. Grrr...
Yesterday we went to check out this New Age store that was recommended to us. It was FAB! Huge and beautiful and so tempting to drop a couple hundred bucks! But we didn't. I did, however, ask if they were looking to bring in any new tarot card readers. They told me they would pass the message on to the owners.
This morning I got a call from them. They want me to come in next Friday morning for an interview and to give a reading. If I get hired, I'll be a back-up reader, meaning if all the other regular readers are busy at the time the client wants a reading, they will call me. Could lead to a couple extra buck a month. And if one of their regular readers leaves, I could get a regular gig there. Yay! 
Tomorrow is our yard sale. Hoping we have a big turn out. I have a ton of stuff, especially books. About 60 books. Wish me luck!
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Earnings,
Work
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June 19th, 2008 at 07:05 am
I've had 2 Kinda No Spenders this week. Monday and yesterday. I say kinda because while I did spent money, it was on necessary things. Monday was groceries and stamps, and Wednesday was my new contacts (instead of new glasses). I'm not going to count these as NSDs since I did spend, but the feeling of being more careful and not spending on wants is great. Now I just need to work on getting needs done all in one day so that I can have real NSDs. 
In other news, when I went grocery shopping, I saved over $11 with coupons. Plus I saved over $30 with store sals. I think I am getting the hang of this. 
I had a job interview on Tuesday. It went really well, I think. It lasted over 3 hours (!) and I met with 7 people (!!). It sounds like a great place and a good job. My only concern is the commute. It is about 40 miles each way, and with the rush-hour traffic, it will take over an hour (almost and hour and a half) each way. Ugh. I really liked the commute with public transportation, so I am not sure how I feel about the driving commute. Plus, with the price of gas...? They will have to offer me a decent salary to make up for it. I'm still waiting to hear from the place I interview with a couple of weeks ago.
I'm sure there is more I want to ramble about, but I've completely lost my train of thought. Maybe more later.
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Medical,
Work
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June 10th, 2008 at 08:08 am
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Work
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June 3rd, 2008 at 07:54 am
Well, I had my job interview today. I think it went pretty well. It's for a Production Editor at a publishing house here in Boston. Seems like there is a lot of work involved, but everyone was really nice, and I like being really bust. Makes the day go by so much quicker.
They told me they will get back to me in 2-3 weeks, and let me know if they want me to come in for a second interview or not. Let's hope they want to see me again!
Until then, back to the job hunt...
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May 31st, 2008 at 06:48 am
My phone interview yesterday went really well. I sounded impressive even to myself! And because I got to learn so many new things at that contract job I just finished up, I didn't even have to fusge my experience. LOL
The best part...they want me to come in for an in-person interview on Tuesday morning!! Ya-hoooooo!!!!!!!!
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Work
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May 30th, 2008 at 07:01 am
I am having my phone interview today in an hour...Wish me luck!!
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Work
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May 23rd, 2008 at 08:55 am
One of the places I sent my resume to emailed me this morning. They want to set up a phone interview. Yay!!
One of my best friends works at this company. She said they do a 3 interview hriing process. One phone and 2 in person. Let's hope the phone interview goes well! 
In other news, today we are going to the movies to see the new Indy movie. We have a gift card left over for Christmas for the theater, so even if it doesn't cover the whole cost of our tickets, it will cover a bit of it.
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Daily Spendings,
Work
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May 22nd, 2008 at 07:35 am
Well, yesterday was my last day at work. I will miss it there. I really liked the people, loved the work and they paychecks were great, too! Hopefully they will get more work soon an can bring me back. Until then, I'm on the hunt.
Of course, now that I am home I have a million things I want to get done here. No relaxing for me! Today I need to:
1. Register for unemployment
2. Deposit my last paycheck, which I got this morning
3. Refill some of my meds while I still have my health insurance
4. Call HR from my old job to see what they took a June health isurance payment out when my health insurance ends May 31st
5. Fill up the car with gas before prices get any higher
6. Budget out this last paycheck
7. Pay some bills
8. Call HR Block re: a possible refund check from taxes two years ago
And then there are just all the little things I want to get done over the next week or two, like take some clothes to the local consignment shop, clean out for a yard sale in a few weeks, finish unpacking from when we moved, etc. It'll be a busy couple of weeks!
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General,
Work
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May 14th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I am officially looking for a job again.
I finished updating my resume last night. It looks OK, but I may see if I can do some extra tweaking to it over the next few weeks. For now though, it works well.
I have to get started on the job hunt. Luckily I have some great references from this current job. Plus, living in Boston now makes it so much easier to find a job compared to when I was living an hour out of the city and I didn't want to do the hour commute. With any luck something will come along quickly.
I sent my resume to three places today. One job was an Editorial Assistant (which is about 2 positions lower than where I am now), one for a Production Assistant position (about the level I work at now), and one for an Associate Editor position (also about the level I am at now).
Hopefully I hear something positive soon!
On some happy news, my current job contract (that originally expired April 30th and got extended to May 16th) was just extended again to May 21st. Good deal! And my boss said after that they will talk with HR to see how many days of vacation time I have earned to help give me the full months worth of pay. (I think I have almost 5 days of vacation time earned!) Very good deal! 
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