Updates: May 6 – 12

Well, today was a busy one. The day job is getting rather busy, with our annual conference coming up at the beginning of June, so I spent my morning attempting to catch up on a lot of backlogged work. After a quick brunch, CF and I headed downtown to check out the Epic! Sustainable Living Expo. As a long time Eat! Vancouver (what’s with all the ‘!”!) attendee, I was not sure what to expect from the Epic Expo, however I was pleasantly surprised. For the price of admission ($10-15) plus a $5 additional fee to the EPICurean pavilion (a lot of food and drink samples, we certainly ate and drank our fill for what we paid. Most definitely cheaper than Eat! Vancouver at this point. A good find if you’re looking for a last minute Mother’s Day outing. Following the Epic! expedition, we headed down to the beach (on a gorgeous Vancouver day) for a beach BBQ with CF’s new co-workers. This has thus resulted in me sitting here after 9pm writing the weekly update!

Here’s what I’m reading (right this second!)

• I’m really enjoying the semi rivalry between Canadian Dream and Financial Uproar. Tim explains how to have a HUGE savings rate. We’re definitely taking a lot of his advice currently, but I think Tim really hits the connection between philosophy and action.

• Frivolous, but XKCD’sEvery Major’s Terrible helps explain some frustration with post secondary education.

• Props for the How I Met Your Mother Reference: Earth and Money explain how Nothing Good Happens After 2AM, especially with financial decisions!

• Congrats to Mo’ Money Mo’ Houses on her 100th post! I fully support the impending scale back: We’ve got 2 people working on this blog and post Tu/Th/Sa and it’s a handful. I can’t imagine posting once per week while maintaining a day job and any normal sense of life!

• Digging Out and Up looks at all the things her savings could be spent on If I didn’t Save. I love examples, and there are some great ones here

 

What did you get up to this weekend? We played GIANT JENGA.

2 Responses to “Updates: May 6 – 12”

1. Cassie says:

   May 14, 2012 at 5:02 pm

   Thanks for the link love, I’m glad you enjoyed the post

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2. Earth and Money says:

   May 14, 2012 at 8:13 pm

   Thanks for including my article Brian, I’m glad you liked the reference!

   Reply