Entries this day: Danielle budget

Danielle

10:42pm CDT Tuesday 16 April 2002

Hung out at work a while, working on my Plano Rally journal entries. Chose not to put images on tonight. Left work. While walking from work toward the post office, crossing Shepherd, a jeep-car thing honked and changed lanes in a weird way. I thought, "weirdo," and then the jeep-car thing pulled up in front of me.

It was Danielle!!

Holy fuckin' shit jumped into the car and gave her a hug and wow!

She drove me to the post office and then to the bank and then to my apartment parking lot (grand total of 5 blocks) where we sat and talked for over an hour. She's divorced and remarried, seems to be quite happy in life. So wonderful!

We determined it's been almost 7 years since we've seen one another.

She knows a guy who has taught English in China. I've been shying away from China, but it keeps coming up... so maybe...

Wow. Lovely timing.

budget

10:48pm CDT Tuesday 16 April 2002

Today I started working out my budget. Just like in my post college pay off student loan days (but not as much debt this time), I'm going to knock out my debt and start saving some frogskins(*) for my adventures.

I called my credit card company to make sure I knew of all the pending transactions and found that the last three had been around $3 or $4 each. I hardly remembered having done them. Little charges like that aren't helping, so I cut up my card.

So now I'm at work to use the internet and compare my budget to my bank account online.

(*) Not that I ever actually use this term, nor that anyone ever uses it, but I saw it in a BMX magazine a *long* time ago, something like, "this bike will set you back 300 frogskins." I thought it was hilarious. Still do.