{"id":224,"date":"2012-11-13T02:11:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T02:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2012-11-14T21:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T02:02:18","slug":"gold-frankenstein-and-myrrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/gold-frankenstein-and-myrrh\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold, Frankenstein and Myrrh"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had my knee operated on a couple of weeks back and I am starting to feel a little stir crazy. I am feeling better than I have in a long while, and the knee is pretty good, too. Lots of sleep and no stress from work have removed the bags from under my eyes and I think I look about 10 years younger. I am not looking forward to returning to the rat race on Monday.<\/p>\n

One of the things I did while healing up was to tackle the filing cabinet. Jenny and I started merging our records last year, but we kind of got side-tracked with pregnancy and having a baby. I took an afternoon and attacked it, finding all kinds of stuff that could be gotten rid of and lots of items that kind of need our attention.<\/p>\n

One of these items is my sad IRA account. I rolled my State Street 401(k) over into it in 2006 and have not really thought about it since. Six years of not adding a nickel. That is going to come back to haunt us. So, I am going to make an effort to try to add to this account every pay period going forward. THIS is a savings account. What we have at the credit union linked to the checking account is basically an electronic envelope. Albert Einstein may not have said it, but compound interest is a very nice piece of magic. I also kicked the fund choices in order to try and drive up the interest rate a bit to make up for what I lost during that whole Great Recession thing.
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Following on the heels of all of that, I tackled the checking account next. Our credit union gives us access to Quicken’s FinanceWorks tool, which is basically Mint.com without the ads. I started adding my external accounts to the CU and removed them from Mint…which I have not been using, so they do not need to have my info. I then deleted my Mint account. Last night I started in on clearing up all of the “Uncategorized” purchases and today I finally finished it up for the entire year. I am going to try to keep up with this tool, as it really does make it easy to see where the money is going. Hint: It is the baby (via Amazon) and the mortgage.<\/p>\n

This evening I made “natural” deodorant for the first time. Funny thing. In researching what essential oil to use (hint: you want an antibiotic one at the very least), I found that patchouli is the mack daddy for this job! Anti-biotic, anti-microbial, anti-fungal, etc, etc. Basically, patchouli was born to the job. But Jenny is not a fan, so we had to go to a couple of hippie shoppes yesterday in search of an oil that would work. I narrowed my choices down to about six that would do the basic job, but I also needed to smell them. In the end, I came upon myrrh. It seems to mix well with my particular brand of underarm funk. Following the simple recipe on this page<\/a>, I now have the most expensive deodorant ever made, but this cost should get lower with each new batch I make. I may run the number on it later. My favorite part was filling up an old Degree for Men stick deodorant dispenser (another hint: though the bottom). I am waiting for it to solidify now. A point of clarification on the process outlined on that page, though. A quart mason jar is entirely larger than is required. An 8oz jar would do. You won’t get 8oz, but you have never felt a Degree for Men (3.5oz) feel so heavy. It is over 4oz for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had my knee operated on a couple of weeks back and I am starting to feel a little stir crazy. I am feeling better than I have in a long while, and the knee is pretty good, too. 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