i think i’m in love with the guys at nortown. they took care of my baby car, fixed her all up bright and shiny, and then when i came to pick her up the mechanic who worked on her took me over and showed me what had happened to my rotors, knew exactly why it […]
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i declare the week over. today is a new week, because i used the old week up (and now i’m going to throw it away). let’s just recap everything that has happened since sunday: 1. $(very close friend) announced that she is moving to the west coast. in like two weeks. i don’t even know […]
having budgeted $300 (and being prepared for up to $400) for the battery replacement, i was unprepared when the total for needed repairs (turns out i was right to ask them to check my rotors and pads — being right sucks) came to $1200. that difference is, like, my whole budgeted payment towards paying off […]
so. last wednesday, had day off to go watch the sox. ran errands in the morning, down to hyde park, zipped over to the near west side, all vroom vroom in the niquimobile. parked the car at the very end of the block when i got home (street cleaning day; it was all that was […]
Since I’m not really much into the whole Jesus-in-a-cave resurrection thing (though i do like bunnies), and this has been by and large a financeapalooza weekend, I decided to go for the three-day trifecta and make myself a nice shiny budget and look over my free annual credit reports. I live a life of wild […]
