Monday, January 21, 2008

Moving day set & school starting

Booo! I can't believe break's already over! :( It officially ends on Wed (the first day of instruction), but since I had to go to campus for an orientation of the culminating experience class (equates to the master's thesis I need to graduate; see the handbook - which I've gotta read soon - for more info on what this is and here's a basic example of what I'll have to do, I'll probably post my progress periodically), I count it as over. No longer can I ignore the impending assignments for school stuff. *sigh*

I'm moving in on Feb. 3! I'm getting soooo excited!!! I dropped by the new place to check out my room again and figure out where I'd wanna place things. I'm totally cleaning this week and then I've gotta pack next week. I'll post pics of my new place & room once I'm settled. Oh!! And if anyone has an extra hairdryer, scale, plunger, toilet bowl brush, dirt devil-type thing, full-length mirror, etc. they wanna get rid of, please let me know! I guess I'm gonna have to do some household-y type shopping.

I'm still working on getting the financial aid too. I finally got a hold of a counselor who will answer my questions, but since today's a holiday, I'll call her tomorrow. I hope the info needed is not as detailed as it sounds cuz that'll be such a pain!

I'm gonna start budgeting this year as well. I started in Nov actually and made an excel spreadsheet for the purpose, but silly me, deleted the whole thing (which took hours of pouring over old credit card statements, receipts, check book, etc. for 2007) in order to make the template for 2008. Cuz I forgot to save it under a different name first. *sigh* All that time & energy down the drain. I'd backed up an older version of it, but I probably won't go back to fill on 2007 again unless the financial aid app really needs that detailed an account of my expenses!! I think I should get one of those budgeting softwares because that'll make things so much easier.

Ok. That's my update. Hopefully, I'll really keep this better up-to-date this year.

2 comments:

estah said...

I've been using Quicken for years to keep track of my expenses. It's pretty easy to use.

Anonymous said...

i've also heard Quicken is really good..i should track my expenses too. ugh.