Saturday This'n'that

What a fast and busy first week back to work.  I was swamped with meetings before school, meetings after school. meetings at noon. It was still bitter cold out but there is just the slightest chance of things improving weatherwise *knock on wood*


Thank you to everyone for your wonderful commiseratory comments about gas prices. It is nice to know the whole country's gas is crazy. One of the mornings on my way to work I saw my station back at $1.119 (8 cents less) but I was en route to a meeting and could not stop. By the time I got home from work, it was back up again. I guess it was not meant to be. I had come home from Edmonton with gas in the tank and I never actually used my gas jar money this week so that money is still tucked aside in the 'gas wallet' so that when I need an oil change or when we have some longer driving trips, there is extra gas money ready.


DS1 is busy reffing this weekend. I told him we're going to start his jar for his share of the vehicle plates. I want him to come up with $400. Hockey season will be soon over and he will need to get on it to find  a job for spring/summer so he can continue to learn how to budget and save. The hard part for him (as it was for me) is to understand that once that money goes IN the jar, that it ceases to exist as money he can spend. We shall see how successful I am with that lesson. I don't know how receptive I would have been if my mother had did that for me, but I honestly wish she had.


As I went to get their allowance this morning I realized that we never got around to handing out last Saturday's. With their consent, it is going in my snowflake jar for DS's plates. $20 towards my goal. wheee


Both my snowflake and my vehicle savings goals  in the sidebar have been updated this morning. It is nice to see them growing. The snowflake jar will grow more whenever the Income Tax refund comes.

I have a bit of banking to do this morning. Once that it is done, there won't be anymore 'banking' to do this month aside from taking out my  last 3 weeks of jars, as each week starts.

Once that is done it is off to the school to meet a couple of other girls and we shall work on report cards while watching the first game of the Briar (Canadian Men's curling). The number of extra hours of work that go in during report card season is high. I've probably done about 8 so far as I mark the last assignments, or locate them, for the students who never bothered to hand them in)

It's still frosty out there and a very light snow is falling. Well hopefully if March comes in like a lion, it goes out like  a lamb.

PS - ohhhhh I forgot to write that our furnace quit on Monday night when it was 40 below out and dropping. I noticed something was off whilst DS2 and his father were at scouts. It just kept dropping no matter how lovingly I encouraged the thermostat to warm it up. When he got home I told hubby that something was off. As per usual he accused me of doing something to change the default settings. mhm like I have nothing better to do than play with the default settings while you are gone just to piss you off when you get home. *sweet lil eye roll*. He tinkered with something and the heat cut in giving him the chance to erroneously say ` I told you so`.  He woke me up around midnight to declare that the furnace was broken. I refrained from saying anything. We made it through the night with quilts and the repairman was called in the morning. This avoided emergency call out fees. It was the switch which was broken. This was replaced and the bill will be mailed. No clue how much that will cost.