It's gotten out of hand. See what I mean? A fellow nonprofit techie posted this on my FunWall tonight:
Ok, I actually got a kick out of it. Wonder what variations of this are going to come out of the NTEN and Women Who Tech conferences. Watch out now!
That's a nice little bit of humor to spice up the day. That plus the fake donation acknowledgment card I received in the mail this weekend. We've been having some problems with print quality and to make sure everything's peachy keen they've started sending me test cards every day for the next two weeks. But see, these development folks and I have geekbonded and so I got no ordinary card but instead one that looked like a perfectly elegant card -- with a quote from Overheard in New York on it! Aww yeah! I love me some development folks. They've got a sense of humor. After all the drama trying to get their printeration to work this is a nice cherry on top.
I'm coming off the high of an A+ weekend. Had a great night out Saturday with my friend Lisa in Forest Hills and Kew Gardens (QNS pride!). We got some yummy Polish vittles for dinner (ever heard of white borscht? It's good) and then went to see Juno, which was awesome. Five stars. Go see it now.
Also got plenty of "me" things done - dropped off tailoring, did all the laundry and grocery shopping, cleaned the apartment with my roommate, and -- most importantly -- found, after much futzing around, a great personal finance site that I can use to track where my money's going and how much of it I've got. It's called Geezeo and I am beginning to heart it very much. Aggregates all of your financial accounts (from checking to investment and savings and credit cards on up... pulled in every last one of mine), lets you tag your expenses to generate a chart on what your top 6 expenses are, and lets you also create goals with little progress bars so you can track your progress towards filling up that emergency fund or whatnot.
I'd tried Wesabe and Buxfer but unfortunately they didn't make the cut. Wesabe was hard to configure and Buxfer, while blessed with a clean interface, iPhone access and handy-dandy pie charts, would have required me to enable OFX access on my Chase Checking account -- and Chase wanted to charge me $9.95/month for that privilege. I don't think so. Geezeo brought in all the accounts, which impressed the heck out of me because I've got a lot of them and Wesabe and Buxfer couldn't even get my Chase Checking account going without a lot of cajoling. While playing around with the site I realized a few financial tweaks I could make right away that were so simple it was like a eureka moment. Now I'm on track with one of my key resolutions for 2008 so I'm in good shape and feeling pretty fabulous.
Heard from Mom today. Her hysterectomy has been scheduled for next Wednesday. I'd been waiting for that to get set up already but now that it has been I'm feeling a little sober and sad about it for some reason. It's real and it's happening and boy, it's a little bit scary. But we'll get through it. I'm planning on being there with her that day. Whatever she needs, I want to be there for her.
Getting all teary eyed thinking about it so I'm going to head back to all the fun stuff I was up to just now. More later, surely...
Thanks! Yup, the Money Confessions are actually how I found out about Geezeo in the first place... read about them in Lifehacker or some such place. I will of course dish on my financial bloopers as well. :)
Posted by: eladyland | January 08, 2008 at 08:04 PM
Hey! Great to hear you had such good experiences at Geezeo. Did you check out our new feature, Money Confessions (https://www.geezeo.com/confessions)? It allows you to take a peek into how others manage their money.
Best of luck for your financial goals in '08!!
Posted by: Katie | January 08, 2008 at 10:54 AM