In Between Day: Internet Out Yesterday - On The Road Tomorrow
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:15 am by Dee O'Neil Andrews
Hi, guys!
I said I was going to post Tuesday or yesterday about some wild weather we experienced while in Biloxi over the weekend at the Mississippi Press Association convention, but ran into some technical difficulties. Tuesday I was still busy unpacking and straightening up from being gone and also spent the entire afternoon working on paying bills and using Quicken. Do y'all use a computerized accounting system like Quicken?
I LOVE it! I keep up with it nearly daily and am always posting in it. I check our bank account online nearly daily to keep up with activity through our bank account. Tom loves to use his debit card and doesn't carry checks at all any more. He just swipes one from me occasionally. Rarely.
Do you have a debit card? Do you use it much - at all?
We use ours most of the time any more because a lot of stores no longer let you write checks, or else they make an electronic transfer immediately from your account and hand you your check back (Wal-Mart does that), so I've gotten to where I use my debit card and keep close track of all of the little receipts (and Tom's). That's one of the reasons I check our bank accounts online every day, too. To keep up with debit expenditures that I might have missed (of Tom's, usually).
All of that came to a grinding halt, though, yesterday morning when we lost our DSL modem internet service. I was NOT a happy camper, let me tell you. I was on the phone with our phone company for nearly an hour, but couldn't solve the problem. Fortunately, they were able to schedule a service guy to come out yesterday afternoon, for which they are to be commended (AT&T, no less) and he "fixed" the problem. We needed a new modem.
So, I'm back in business.
Meanwhile, I've been working mightily on laundry and grocery shopping and have to pack this afternoon because we are leaving again in the morning. We're on the road to Dallas this time. It will be an all day trip (probably 8 1/2 or 9 hours) to Tom's daughter's house in Grand Prairie. We'll spend the night and then Tom will drive me on over to Abilene Saturday morning to spend a week with my mom. Yea!
He'll be bringing his grandkids back here Sunday for several days and then take them home and come get me next weekend. I'm hoping to get to see my brother this time, whom I haven't seen since last July. He and his wife live up in Lubbock where he is a social worker in a psychiatric prison hospital and Roseanna is a professor at Texas Tech.
As you know, my sister and family live in Abilene, too, so we'll get to see them. Tom will be around for a while on Saturday before he has to go back to Dallas.
I've got a lot to do today, so am going to leave you with this picture of Tom and me with Sherry and Randy Ponder of Bay St. Louis taken last Friday night at the MPA convention. Tom is the outgoing president of the MPA, while Randy is the incoming president, so they took our pictures together.
I was looking at our pictures from the last two years of conventions, and could noticeably see a difference in myself (besides looking older!). You see, I've lost 23 pounds since last summer! I'm down a size in clothes and am really happy with the results. I'd like to lose some more, but don't know. It's hard, isn't it?
Cheers & Blessings to you today! I'll write from Abilene, hopefully Saturday.
Dee
Great picture. You look wonderful!
I think you’re looking great … especially considering all you’ve been through in this past year!!
Janice uses Quicken … I stay away from it!
Love that picture! Sorry about your internet. I felt lost for those few days after we moved before we got our service!
I hardly even carry cash anymore-just the debit card. I put the receipts in my front left pocket and (try to remember to) record them in the checkbook at the end of the day. We don’t use Quicken, though. We just use the bank’s website to check off the entries.
FANTASTIC picture!
It is amazing how dependent we are on internet these days.
I owe you some e-mails… much appreciate what you sent me.
I agree. Very nice photo!
We still have checks, but don’t write a check very often. I can’t swipe my debit card at church, so still put a check in the plate. On a few other occasions, we write checks, but not many.
Welcome back to the Lone Star State!
Nice picture! I use Quicken, and I do love it, but am usually pretty bad about procrastinating. I sit down about once a month and pull up my bank account online, put the transactions in Quicken and balance it out. On a day-to-day basis, I just kinda keep track of approximately how much $ I have in my head, w/out actually writing it down.
The sad part about all of that????
I actually WORK for the credit union I bank at…in the ACCOUNTING dept!
We use debit cards all the time. I have written a check in ages. About the only checks we write are to church.
We also use Quicken and do all our banking online. It is so easy and we love it. We do the same to check it every few days, probably not every day.
Hope you have a wonderful trip. Enjoy Lubbock. I haven’t been back in two years now and probably won’t be going back since my folks moved from there. No one left there that I have to go see. There are a few friends, but friends I haven’t kept up with in years. You will enjoy the low humidity. That is what I always notice first so I get out the Carmex and start dabbing it on my lips. Enjoy Abilene as well as my best friend in all the world lives there and will be traveling to Southeast Texas later in the month for a visit to see me.
Great picture of you and Tom. Keep up the weight loss. Wife and I are still doing the “WW thing” where she just received an award for losing 85 pounds!
Enjoy your visit!