I finally went to the bank to cash my last three paychecks because I had been too lazy to do it before. Two of them were from December and one from this January. I come back home and then do my thing allocating money for this that and the other and when I am finished with that I am left with $402 dollars.

I know that the money left is from the second half of December when I was on Christmas break and didn’t spend that much on anything and from this year when I have been out of work sick for most of the month and again have not spent that much either so I knew that I would have some money left just not how much.

The question then became, what to do with it. Buy new shoes, a new computer, a new phone, a new leg or a bionic disc if that is indeed what is ailing me. After thinking about it not that long or hard I decided to put 75% of that in the bank and 25% will go to help pay for my debt, there problem solved. 

Brand new week and I hope that this one will be a lot better than last; things started fine but when Wednesday came around everything went down hill and fast. As a result my account was down $436 big ones and that sucked.

I had no trades last week.

My investments, 50 Dow Chemical Co (DOW) shares, 100 Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB) shares, 400 Citigroup (C) shares, 500 Fannie Mae (FNM) shares and 2500 First National Bancshares Inc (FNSC).

I have been waiting for my 403b to surge past the 5k dollar mark but for some reason it just won’t, it is a good thing that I am a patient man. My account was down $179.64 for the week which is never good but it happens. For some strange reason my usual DCP deduction wasn’t taken out from my last paycheck and I have no idea why.

Last week wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be half way through the week. My account was down $52.50 for the week and even though I don’t like losing money I’ll take it. Things will rebound as they usually do and I am hoping that this week will be better than last, a lot better.

I had no trades last week.

My investments, 50 Dow Chemical Co (DOW) shares, 100 Allied Irish Banks PLC (AIB) shares, 400 Citigroup (C) shares, 500 Fannie Mae (FNM) shares and 2500 First National Bancshares Inc (FNSC).

Hard to believe that tax season is here again, seems like just yesterday I was doing my ‘08 taxes. This year I have to include the sale from some of my stocks, yes I actually made some money in ‘09 and that is always good news. I don’t know if I am going back to the same place where I filed last year, a new place or if I am going to do it myself with the help of tax software. I sure can’t wait to see if I am going to end up getting something back or paying a lot back, stay tuned.