5 Easy-to-Make Deluxe Gifts for Under $15 article on Wise Bread
My article about my super awesome ninja homemade gifts was published today on Wise Bread. Go here to read the entire article and/or leave a comment: 5 Easy-to-Make Deluxe Gifts for Under $15 (Wise Bread) I wonder if I can write and sell five more articles to Wise Bread in the next twelve days…
First Master List FAILURE!
Wow, this sucks. This morning my application to refinance my mortgage was denied due to my last year’s income of $18,000, which I was completely up front about at the beginning of the process. The fact that I can live on $18,000 in Los Angeles and maintain a high credit score and pay all my [...]
My Evil Scheming Ways
How do you get your boyfriend to finally sort out the garage in preparation for a garage sale he doesn’t want to have? Hold the garage sale on your birthday so he can’t say no. Yes, I’m terrible. But now that he’s resigned to the task of giving me the birthday morning that I really [...]
The Master List
As my 2010 Resolution is to “fix my life,” I thought it might be a good idea to keep a running list of all the unfinished projects that are knocking around the inside of my head and cluttering my house. Of course, this list is in no particular order. But let’s face it. If I [...]
It’s Like Hello Kitty For Men
As an early Christmas present, I gave Mr. Foxypants a penguin shaped seltzer machine to replace his two bottle a day Pellegrino habit. Although I absolutely prefer the taste of Pellegrino over filtered Los Angeles tap water, environmentally, bottled water is a terrible waste of resources. Financially, bottle water sucks too, as Pellegrino is more [...]
I Hate To Be One Of Those Lame People
who blog about their appliances. But I admit it:I’m an appliance whore. The only major disagreement that I have ever had with Mr. Foxypants is over my refrigerator. That’s the one thing that I had to leave behind for my renters when I moved in with him last year. My old fridge was custom-built for me [...]
Ex-Deadbeat
Yep. That’s me! Today, Chase restored my $100,000 line of credit. Ah! It’s so nice to be out of financial quarantine. Maybe I will be able to fix up my house enough to rent it out next year and not be so reliant on Hollywood for my main source of revenue.


