Excel Excess

Here's a fun sentence:  since i got laid off, i've been able to fulfill one of my longtime dreams.  Fostering kittens!  I've always wanted to, but (depending on age) they need to be weighed and fed like 4 times a day.  So it can be challenging to foster if you have to go into an office, even one day a week like at my previous job.  But now, between filling out job applications and going on interviews, i'm raising America's next generation of purrfect little fur beasts! Say hello to the J28 litter!  Meet (in alphabetical order) Jack, Jack O Lantern, Jackson, Jemima, Jerome, and Jezebel!  This' only my second time fostering kittens, so the good people at Austin Pets Alive! only saddled me with two of these sweet baby angles--Jezebel (whom i'm calling Lil) and Jack O Lantern (whom i'm calling Loop). These nicknames came about because i've named all my cats after sub shops:  Blimpie , HoneyLightning ThunderCloud , and Tucci .  Loop ...

Makeup--technically none of us need it, but so many of us use it.  Research shows that we primarily use it because we're anxious and insecure and want to appear less noticeable, or because we want to be more attractive, and have been taught that our natural, untouched faces are un attractive.  Cool! Not only is makeup crazy expensive, but it expires relatively quickly.  What's that you say?  "Expiration dates on my eye shadow?!  I ignore the expiration dates on medication, so there's no way I'm taking an expiration date from a company called e.l.f. seriously!" Sure, you seem credible. Well what if i told you expired makeup can cause breakouts; skin parasites; infections; loss of vision; puffy, red, and/or swollen eyes; styes; conjunctivitis; pink eye; and more?  Still want to put that shit on your face?  Didn't think so!  But how to track this? Let's start with the PAO (or "Period After Opening") symbol that's on most co...

My previous job paid for my gas.  But i used my car for things other than work, like driving to my other job, or driving to interviews for new jobs.  So the gas that they paid for was kind of a bonus, and i wanted to know exactly how much it added to my total compensation package.  So... gas bonus = total spent on gas - cost of gas used for legitimate business travel ...and... cost of gas used for legitimate business travel = miles * price of gas / MPG of my Cavalier LS For my job, i traveled to and from various clients' houses all day.  So i threw together this little chart as a quick reference for the exact mileage getting from one place to another.

Ohhhhh, hello!  Guys--GUYS, have you heard of the LIBRARY?  It's amazing!  It's free, and if you know how to work the website, you can suggest that they purchase books for you! "If i was looking for a book on astrophysics, where would i find one?" "Off the top of my head, i'd have to say a bookstore.  Or a library." While physical books are stupid, downloadable audio-books are the best thing to happen to my commute since i got my AC fixed!  And the library buys the majority of the books is suggest.  For this reason, i now have 122 books on my wish list. But how does one decide the order in which to "read" them?  My first logical choice would be to read them in the order i added them to my wish list.  But The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (book #7 on my list) for example has 0 available copies, and 2 people on the waiting list.  Now i hate waiting as much as i love audio-books, and i flat out refuse to sit in traffic without...