When my grandmother passed away about 15 years ago, she left me with numerous shares of her stocks that she’d purchased over the years. She considered this an insurance policy - so to speak. For years I was unaware of them, when I turned 18 my father handed me the paperwork. I’ve got shares in AT&T and numerous other companies that I was unaware of. Right now they only total about $10,000 to $15,000. Which is absolutely amazing, and I am currently looking for a house but I think I should leave things where they are for the time being, maybe in the future when I’m looking to retire, I’ll consider it. For now, however, I’ll keep it as my security blanket, in case something serious ever happened. Moving to a new state, while expensive, isn’t really going to break the bank.

Today I came across MyWallSt.net, they’re currently running the rookie challenge. It’s free registration and participation. Those who join are given a free hat. It’s a fantasy investing game where winners earn real money, $1000 per week based on the last thing I read. You don’t have to invest any of your own money but you can be involved in the financial social network for those interested in investing. They’re currently looking for new members so head on over and see if you’re interested.

I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated, but that’s based on the fact that I’ve been so busy with everything going on before we move that putting in any real effort towards maintaining a health related blog is proving to be more difficult than I thought.  I’m still sticking to my diet, I did have a slip-up day but I was menstruating and having some kind of sugar was the only way I could get my body to stop screaming at me.  So I went to the store and picked up a Dove bar and now I’m content again.  It’s putting a damper on my exercise considering all of the cramping but I’m still moving around as much as I can in order to keep myself somewhat active.  So the last week hasn’t been that great, but it’s not out of pure laziness, it’s based on quite a bit of pain.

Sean’s birthday is coming up soon, I got him a gift card to EBGames because Halo 3 is coming out on the 25th, his birthday is on the 21st, and I know that he really wanted the limited edition, which is like $130 I believe. So I threw a $150 gift-card his way and that’s taken care of.  I’m unsure of what to do for his birthday as far as dinner is concerned, but he isn’t actually telling me anything either.  I asked him if he wanted me to cook something, or if he wanted to just go out to dinner considering it’s dead down here now since all of the tourists are gone.  His mother doesn’t even know what to do, so maybe he’ll figure something out by Friday and we can take it from there.