Life and Income Updates… 12/26/2011

I’m off today! So nice. I hope everyone had a great weekend! Sorry for the lack of interesting posts last week. I was just feeling so sick (as you all know).  I never ended up going to the doctor but I still have a sore throat and can’t really talk still, but I feel fine….

Michelle Schroeder-Gardner

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I’m off today! So nice. I hope everyone had a great weekend! Sorry for the lack of interesting posts last week. I was just feeling so sick (as you all know).  I never ended up going to the doctor but I still have a sore throat and can’t really talk still, but I feel fine. But now it’s time to start thinking of NYE! I’m so excited.

We didn’t end up having a Christmas dinner for friends at our house on Friday, everyone had different plans and I didn’t even realize that everyone wanted it to be on Friday until a couple of days before hand. And I was too sick to do anything so I told them I couldn’t.

Family: My mom never said Merry Christmas to me, even though I tried calling her. She was out of town (don’t even want to talk about that right now), so me and the BF went over to my mom’s and kept my sister company since she was pretty upset.

The BF’s grandma is doing much better by the way. Thanks everyone for your kind and caring thoughts last week. She still isn’t doing the greatest, but she has definitely pulled through.

Extra Monthly Income/GC update: My Swagbucks have been slow still, but oh well.  Sold another text book too, this one wasn’t at a profit thought. I bought it for $128 at the beginning of the semester and sold it at $100. Still pretty good in my book though.

The BF missed a couple of days last week because of his grandma, but of course there’s nothing wrong that. His work actually gave him trouble for missing though and one of his supervisors said “I thought when you sign up for extra hours, that you would actually work them.” And he said this in general to everyone, but definitely directed it at the BF.

He’s still making a couple hundred extra dollars a week and we’re still on track for our couple extra thousand this month. And on to the next thing:

Christmas bonus: This was pretty exciting this year. I got a $100 spa certificate, and around $100 in other gift cards, lotions, VS lip glosses, and a…

$6,100 bonus!

I’m so excited about this! I still haven’t decided exactly what I plan on doing with this.

Volunteer work: My volunteering starts soon! I’m excited. Not exactly sure what kind of clothes I need, so I need to look into that.

How’s everything going for you?


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  1. I love the pictures! And congrats on all your holiday gifts and that awesome bonus! I'm glad you have been well!

  2. Free!~

    Congrats on the HUGE bonus! I hope you get better before NYE 🙂

  3. That's amazing! Hope you feel better before 2012 starts! Way to go, all of your hard work certainly paid off! Maybe some could be used for the dream closet? 🙂

  4. I NEED to sell all my old textbooks asap! And woohoo! That is an amazing bonus! Baile yhttp://lostandfound-bailee.blogspot.com/

  5. Glad you're starting to feel better! 🙂 That's an awesome bonus!! Wow!

  6. WOW, congrats on the bonus!! That is always nice to receive!!!Merry (belated) Christmas!!!Veronica

  7. omg nice bonus! btw, i was browsing around your blog and noticed you watch sons of anarchy? my uncle is in that! so crazy! do you still watch it?

  8. Lisa

    Congratulations on the super duper Bonus!! I hope you are feeling better soon, it dies suck to be sick during the holidays. :(My swagbucks have been slow too. But I still keep trying to earn more. Feel better!!

  9. {{Michelle}}I'm so sorry about your Mom. I'm sure that is very hurtful. I'm glad you were there for your sister.I'm glad you are on the mends too. Being sick at Christmas time is hard…so much is going on…CONGRATS ON YOUR BONUS!!! How awesome is that? Of course the spa gift certificate isn't too shabby either!

  10. Thanks everyone.And thank you Sharon. She seems to have fallen off the face of Earth, still hasn't said Merry Christmas to me.

  11. Congrats on the Christmas bonus! That's pretty sweet 🙂 Good luck figuring out what to do with it!