05.17.08

Mint!

Posted in Personal Finance at 9:52 pm by Andee

I recently signed up at Mint.com and I absolutely love it!  My cousin had told me about a few months ago when he first signed up and I checked it out back then but never signed up.  I was hesitant to have all of my information online but after researching the website and speaking with him some more, I decided to sign up too. 

 It took less than five minutes to register and see all of my “assets” displayed before me.  The website has a lot of cool features.  It’s able to pull information from your accounts and show where you spend all of your money, displayed as a pie chart.  My favorite feature is the mobile alerts where you can register your cell phone and have text messages sent you if your balance dips below a certain point.

I have to admit, I just signed up a few days ago and I’m addicted.  I log in everyday to monitor my transactions and see all my accounts.  It’s great to see that although I don’t have a ton of money, I’m definitely making progress.

05.08.08

Why Was He Going Through My Drawer??

Posted in Uncategorized at 1:08 am by Andee

Yesterday my boss’ boss was in town from Phoenix.  He visits every month or so to see how the department is doing.  My manager is never happy when he comes but I’m pretty indifferent since I don’t work closely with him. My manager, L came over to my desk in the afternoon to “vent” about him and casually mentioned that he had stopped by desk this morning (before I was there) looking for a stapler. He proceeded to go into my drawers, even though my stapler was right on top of my desk and told L that it was inappropriate for me to have credit cards in my desk.  First of all, they were Transit Cheks! Second of all, my transit cheks were at the bottom of my desk underneath a bunch of business cards, which means that in order for him to have seen them he had to be digging through my stuff.  And he actually wants me to believe that he was looking for a stapler?  I don’t have anything private in my desk and I certainly don’t have anything to hide but I absolutely hate when people go through my things, company owned or not.  If I needed to borrow something from a co-worker and they weren’t at their desk, I’d wait until they got back.  And I definitely wouldn’t go through their drawers…you never know.  Can you believe this guy?

05.01.08

My New Favorite Website

Posted in Uncategorized at 1:31 am by Andee

I was browsing the web today and came across this awesome website, Apartment Therapy.  I’m ashamed to say that I spent in insane amount of time on this site today when I should’ve been working (sorry, I simply could not resist!) 

My favorite feature is the house tours, where you can tour people’s home designs.  Most of the featured homes are very small, i.e 500 sq. feet!  They manage to do amazing and creative things with their small spaces.  Very inspiring!