The Roundup - Busy Weekend Edition

Posted on September 30, 2007 by Eric
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This was a really busy weekend for us. We had several friends and some family over to the house the last couple of days. One of our friends came over and we helped her with her wedding album and to look for her first house. I think she’s really excited about searching for the new house. Saturday night, Melissa’s parents came into town unexpectedly (they were going to drive in on Sunday morning). Not only did they come in early, they had a serious car problem on the way down and we had to find a new part for them. Everything worked out great in the end, and we had a fabulous dinner and a great time visiting. Overall, I’d say it was a pretty darn good weekend.

I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to catch up on my blogging or keeping up with my blog reading, but here are a few of the articles I read :

Golbguru at Money, Matter, and more Musings, brings up some great things to consider about your security online. This is an area I feel very strongly about, and I wrote several posts on how to protect your finances online earlier this year.

Pinyo at Moolanomy has become “obsessed” with checking his blogging statistics. I have to admit I’ve been feeling this lately too. He put together some great goals to help overcome this, and I think I might do the same. It’s just not productive.

Nickel at Five Cent Nickel blogged about his experiences with Bank Of America’s high yield money market accounts. My current bank is the credit union I joined when I started my first job after college. I’ve been wondering about changing banks, and this post has me thinking of checking out BoA.

Brip Blap posted an absolutely great list of simple things you can do to improve your happiness and productivity. I do actually make an effort to follow a lot of what’s in his list, but not all of it. I think there is a word of wisdom there for everyone. I think this week I’m going to make an effort to take at least a 15 minute walk outside in the sunlight every day during the work day.

Whew! Now I have a chance to recover a bit from the weekend and catch up on some reading. Have a great week this upcoming week, and try and take some of Brip Blap’s advice this week. I know I will.

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Comments

4 Responses to “The Roundup - Busy Weekend Edition”

Brip Blap on September 30th, 2007 7:36 pm

Thanks for the link(s)! I know what you mean about family visits - I took the wife and kid to my brother’s house, so we disrupted their weekend. There is nothing so exhausting yet so satisfying as spending busy weekends with family (and friends). Which means, on balance, it’s always a good thing!
Pinyo on October 1st, 2007 6:54 am

Thank you for the link. My weekend was crazy too, so I can relate.

By the way, I have been following your blog and have been very impressed. Probably one of the best new blog!
Eric on October 1st, 2007 4:59 pm

Brip Blap - Busy weekends can be a very good thing. We really enjoyed having our family and friends over. I’m sure your brother didn’t mind the interruption. Spending time with family is important!

Pinyo - Wow - thank you for the compliment! As you know we’re big fans of your blog too so this means a lot to us! Melissa and I have really been enjoying our first month blogging (we hit our first month a few days ago).
Pinyo on October 2nd, 2007 10:39 am

Congratulation on making the 1st month and doing well. Many members of the M-Network like your blog, so keep up the good work.