I usually drink soft drinks at work. I’ll have a Pepsi with lunch and occasionally I’ll have another if the day is dragging.
BAM! $2.50 down the hole.
So instead, I’m buying up a stock of these Crystal Light On the Go packages. I like the iced tea it makes, it’s certainly less calories I would intake daily (the less the better if I’m gonna look soooo good for the wedding) and if I can cut back $5 a week on soda, then we’re looking at over $200 a year in savings.
I like that idea. Today is day one.
Posted on 2006-08-29
So I wanna cut some costs down. Mostly thing I spend money on relating to work like lunch, travel and things of that nature.
First is a serious consideration to commuting to Stamford by train when I work there. It’s 52.4 miles round trip to work. My car gets between 18 and 20 miles to the gallon, which makes it about 3 gallons of gas to get to and from work daily (I usually sit in an hour to an hour and a half of extra traffic each round-trip). Currently I pay about $10 to commute by car daily.
I have two option of train stations to go to, one closer and slightly more expensive and one a little further away and less expensive. The one that is further away also is juuust past the point of where traffic begins to pile up. Amber can show me a back roads way, but I question if it will save me any more time. I’m too lazy to wake up on days I’m not contracting there and do some trial runs at approximate times on the two routes because I value my slumber too darn much.
The train requires me to leave much earlier in the mornings than usual, up to an hour earlier because of the shuttles that run from Stamford to my job. The ride home would be shorter, and the prospect of that I like. The math works out to that if I take the train from the closer to work station then I’m looking at the train ticket paying for itself after 6 days of travelling to work. In an average month I spend approx 10-12 days there so it pays for itself easily.
The differences to my schedule would be leaving the house by 8:05 instead of by 9:05 to arrive at work at 9:50 instead of somewhere between 9:30 and 9:45. If I have to be in the office earlier than that, I’d have to leave at 7:30 instead of 8:30 or 8:20.
Something to think about.
Posted on 2006-08-22
The Friday Five
1. Do you really make wishes when you blow out the candles on your cake?
I did and I always still do
2. Have any of the wishes ever come true, if yes?
In second grade I wished for a bicycle and I got one that day! Then I left it on the lawn and it either got stolen or the garbage men took it away. Not the same day, but probably within a year.
3. How do you feel about birthdays? (e.g., love the attention, just another day, don’t want anyone to know my real age, etc.)
I’m happy if I can do something special on my birthday. It’s slowly becoming go to the Big E if it’s around my birthday. I don’t care so mucht hat I get a cake or whatever, but I do care that the cake that someone gets me isn’t my brothers cake from his birthday in August with his name smeared out with just the “R” left there saying it musta happened between the store and the house. Not that I’m still bitter about it.
4. Tell us a favorite gift you’ve received, or something you’d really like for your next birthday.
One year Jared got me two coffee table books, one on Hendrix, one on MTV Unplugged. I still look at both books now and again. One year I got one of those little kid press a button and it plays some music electric guitars. One year someone made me a guitar strap. When I was a little kid my brother got me some wireless Nintendo controllers. I thought those were super cool. Last year Amber went with me to the Big E and I love that too.
5. What flavor cake?
I like chocolate cakes. Not ice cream cakes though. I don’t mind them but I’m not thrilled with them.
Posted on 2006-08-18
Normally I don’t loat about my job but this weekend takes the cake.
Friday night - Richie Havens. I mixed “Freedom” and “Here Comes the Sun” and “All Along the Watchtower” from an artist who either wrote the song or was there for the beginnings of all of it. So very cool to meet such an awesome person and artist.
Saturday night - Leslie Gore. Yeah, I mixed “It’s My Party”. Fuck yes! So awesome and a fun show. Amber locks my kesy in my car and the girl at AAA knows who I am! Very cool. We got into the car in less than an hour thanks to that.
Sunday night - < href="http://www.christinaabbott.com/">Christina Abbott (you NEED to know who she is) who has become a friend of Amber and I played a great set before Josh Kelly. Josh Kelly is a cool dude beyond words and writes some great honest music.
And here’s a fun item as well. I have very boring business cards. My name, my job, my email and phone #. No frills, no graphics, no nothing exra. Josh Kelly and Slim (the 2nd guitarist) of the band take a look at go “Cool! Straight ahead with all the information I need.” …which just so happens to be the reason I had them made the way that they were! I’m happy to say the least.
And on top of all of it, I got to spend this awesome weekend with my beautiful fiancee! AND we set a date for the wedding to boot. I’m getting married September 1st, 2007 to Amber Santos. Amber’s so cool.
Rawk!
Posted on 2006-08-06
