cindys on August 31st, 2009

Over the past month, I have heard horror stories about online colleges. One of them involves my daughter A and the other one involves a daughter of a friend, B. Both girls were enrolled in different online universities. Don’t get me wrong, I think being able to attend classes online is awesome! It provides an [...]

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cindys on August 28th, 2009

R is home and doing well with his new hip. We have been teasing him about being the bionic man. Seriously, he is doing very well considering and other than an intermittent fever, recovery has been smooth. I am very glad not to be running back and forth to the city which is an hour [...]

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cindys on August 25th, 2009

Just wanted too give everyone a quick update. R had surgery yesterday for his hip replacement. He came through with flying colors but then spiked a fever last night. I was at the hospital until early this morning. His fever is back down but he is on IV antibiotics right now. Hopefully when the antibiotics [...]

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cindys on August 13th, 2009

I read an Liz Pulliam’s article on Why Credit Counseling Often Fails this week.  It’s sad that so many people pay debt management companies to write their budget and reach a settlement with their debt collectors and then end up in default. One thing that struck me was that debt collectors are now starting to [...]

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cindys on August 4th, 2009

We started off the weekend on Friday with a buying trip to North Carolina.   We had caught the bills up and carefully budgeted the trip so that we could go and still have money to buy horses.  I had packed our lunch and dinner. I was up at 4 am and we hit the road [...]

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