Still updating the same journal
OK, I doubt anyone will have a really good answer for me, but here's to hoping someone will. How do you know when to sell stocks? I mean, mine has been going through the roof. The first year I had it they were around $22-$26 a share. Recently they have been climbing steadily to $39. That's a huge profit per share. Do I risk pulling them out now. I really could use an extra bit of cash for the holidays, not to mention I promised myself I would get my old Buick running by New Year's. Hell, I guess it could turn into a birthday present for myself. That would mean I could hold off on it til February. I really miss driving that beast though. It's wicked fast and very stylish.
A different update
You know what's really nice? A nap just before going to work all night. I'm going to go do that now.
Light hearted Update
I've had to wear glasses since I was three years old, and I've always hated them. I mean growing up in the 70s and 80s we didn't have all the hip choices in eye wear that there are now. There was no "boys in glasses look cute" idealology, like there is now. If you wore glasses you were a dork. Plain and simple. Not to mention that my glasses were thicker than coke bottles. In time I was finally able to switch to contact lenses and did so for about three years, but the maintanence was just too much for me. I went back to wearing glasses when I started working on the railroad about 7 years ago, but still I hadn't ever found a pair that fit my face well. I finally got a cool pair yesterday. They are light. They fit my face well, and I actually look good in them. It's shocking to me really. But I'm very happy with them.
I'll see if I can get some pictures up soon.
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This is always a tough time of the year for me. I'm sure I wrote about the same thing last year, because every year without fail money gets really tight around the holidays. Work slows down and there's no more overtime to be made. There's no holiday bonus for the employees at my job. We just have to be smart and save for this time of year. Well after 7 years at the same place you'ld think I'd know by now. Nope. So something has to give. Rent and bills? No, can't really skimp there. Food is kind of important. I'm down to one meal a day as it is, I don't think I can cut back anymore. So as usual it's going to be gifts. I was at least smart enough to shop early for a few people and they will be getting theirs. However, I don't know if I'm going to have enough to get all the people on my list something. It breaks my heart. I am not cheap and I am not selfish. I love to give nice gifts, but I tend to do it year round. Somehow it goes unnoticed this time of the year. My family members all think I'm an asshole as it is. I mean they get me the same gifts every year and yet, even on a limited budget, I try to come up with something unique for each of them. Something that shows that I know who they are still. They all end up getting me a typical fleece sweatshirt at Gap or a flannel shirt from Sears. In large. Hello, I'm not fat. I haven't ever been a large. Most mediums are loose on me. But, if nothing else try to get me something that says that you have a clue who I am. It's the reason I stopped going to visit them on Christmas morning. I can't sit there and fake surprise anymore. I can't pretend to appreciate something that will sit in my closet for the next year with the tag still on it. I'd rather that they didn't spend the money on me at all. Give to a charity in my name instead. That would really make me happy. My oldest brother and father both had lukemia, and yet no one in my family makes any kind of donations to cancer research. I think that's sad. Don't get me wrong, I'm just as guilty, but I'm trying to change that. I'm trying to find ways to help the needy. Things that I can do in my financial state. I've been giving it a lot of thought lately. I'm going to do something.
OK, I doubt anyone will have a really good answer for me, but here's to hoping someone will. How do you know when to sell stocks? I mean, mine has been going through the roof. The first year I had it they were around $22-$26 a share. Recently they have been climbing steadily to $39. That's a huge profit per share. Do I risk pulling them out now. I really could use an extra bit of cash for the holidays, not to mention I promised myself I would get my old Buick running by New Year's. Hell, I guess it could turn into a birthday present for myself. That would mean I could hold off on it til February. I really miss driving that beast though. It's wicked fast and very stylish.
A different update
You know what's really nice? A nap just before going to work all night. I'm going to go do that now.
Light hearted Update
I've had to wear glasses since I was three years old, and I've always hated them. I mean growing up in the 70s and 80s we didn't have all the hip choices in eye wear that there are now. There was no "boys in glasses look cute" idealology, like there is now. If you wore glasses you were a dork. Plain and simple. Not to mention that my glasses were thicker than coke bottles. In time I was finally able to switch to contact lenses and did so for about three years, but the maintanence was just too much for me. I went back to wearing glasses when I started working on the railroad about 7 years ago, but still I hadn't ever found a pair that fit my face well. I finally got a cool pair yesterday. They are light. They fit my face well, and I actually look good in them. It's shocking to me really. But I'm very happy with them.
I'll see if I can get some pictures up soon.
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This is always a tough time of the year for me. I'm sure I wrote about the same thing last year, because every year without fail money gets really tight around the holidays. Work slows down and there's no more overtime to be made. There's no holiday bonus for the employees at my job. We just have to be smart and save for this time of year. Well after 7 years at the same place you'ld think I'd know by now. Nope. So something has to give. Rent and bills? No, can't really skimp there. Food is kind of important. I'm down to one meal a day as it is, I don't think I can cut back anymore. So as usual it's going to be gifts. I was at least smart enough to shop early for a few people and they will be getting theirs. However, I don't know if I'm going to have enough to get all the people on my list something. It breaks my heart. I am not cheap and I am not selfish. I love to give nice gifts, but I tend to do it year round. Somehow it goes unnoticed this time of the year. My family members all think I'm an asshole as it is. I mean they get me the same gifts every year and yet, even on a limited budget, I try to come up with something unique for each of them. Something that shows that I know who they are still. They all end up getting me a typical fleece sweatshirt at Gap or a flannel shirt from Sears. In large. Hello, I'm not fat. I haven't ever been a large. Most mediums are loose on me. But, if nothing else try to get me something that says that you have a clue who I am. It's the reason I stopped going to visit them on Christmas morning. I can't sit there and fake surprise anymore. I can't pretend to appreciate something that will sit in my closet for the next year with the tag still on it. I'd rather that they didn't spend the money on me at all. Give to a charity in my name instead. That would really make me happy. My oldest brother and father both had lukemia, and yet no one in my family makes any kind of donations to cancer research. I think that's sad. Don't get me wrong, I'm just as guilty, but I'm trying to change that. I'm trying to find ways to help the needy. Things that I can do in my financial state. I've been giving it a lot of thought lately. I'm going to do something.
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fatality:
I don't own any stocks myself, but I took to learning about them when I worked as an equity research analyst over the summer. I'm not very business oriented, I was actually there to do neuroscience research, but I knew it was a good time to learn because I probably wouldn't be put in that context - school or job - again.
sleep:
happy unbirthday