{"id":911,"date":"2009-01-21T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/ouch\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T00:13:00","slug":"ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/21\/ouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mailed off the credit card payment which included my last big semester at university. That took out nearly all of my savings, so this is as poor as I&#8217;ve been since, well, since I don&#8217;t remember when. (Probably since I used to travel to England every year or so. Amazing how much money I got into savings when I stopped flying there each summer. Heh.) But there are many good things in this too. <\/p>\n<ul> <\/p>\n<li> As I said, it was my last big payment. After this semester are 3 more semester hours which I&#8217;ll pay over 2 or 3 semesters. (And this semester I paid for 7 semester hours). <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> I have paid for my Masters program WITHOUT taking out a loan. I am very proud of myself for that. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> When I called the folks to whimper (in a not very serious way) they invited me around for wine time and the watching of the Inauguration Parade. It was fun. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Yesterday amazon.com sent me $50 worth of gift certificates for paying for my college bill with my amazon.com credit card. \ud83d\ude42 I only spent $5 over that to order lots of fun books. (And I&#8217;m only $400 away from another $25 gift cert.) <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> In my preliminary work on my taxes (still waiting on forms from lame-os Wooster and Ohio) it looks like I&#8217;ll be getting a refund again. Woot! <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Heck, this summer I updated my bathroom big time which was a great use of money in savings. <\/li>\n<p> <\/ul>\n<p> So, although my savings account looks pretty pathetic right now, I&#8217;m very fortunate that I&#8217;ll be able to start saving again now that my Masters Program is finishing up. And next year, when I&#8217;m done with the program, I&#8217;ll move sideways on the pay scale at work and get a bit more money. (I&#8217;m envisioning a successful Masters Thesis. It&#8217;s the only way to envision it.) Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mailed off the credit card payment which included my last big semester at university. That took out nearly all of my savings, so this is as poor as I&#8217;ve been since, well, since I don&#8217;t remember when. (Probably since I used to travel to England every year or so. Amazing how much money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,113],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal","tag-masters","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}