No Holiday Break For Me! The Roundup

Have you started your holiday break yet? Well then, lucky you, because I don’t think I’m getting one . I’ve accepted a few writing jobs in the last several weeks, so I guess I’ll be busier than ever. I’ll tell you more about it in the future, but safe to say it’s with a few interesting sites. Hello Wise Bread and ePlay!

I know this week will be crazy, and I’m not too sure if I’ll be able to stick to my usual blogging pace, but we’ll see. A dear friend of mine is driving up from L.A. with her family to stay with us for several days. My parents just flew in from Asia for a planned 2 month (or so) visit with us, and well, I still have to announce who wins the Epson Workforce 600, though I’m planning to do so by tomorrow (banning unforeseen distractions and circumstances). I’m still trying to figure out how we’ll fit a road trip or two somewhere in there. Thank goodness nobody’s gotten sick yet… knock on wood.

Who needs a break?

Despite all the “real life” stuff going on, I hope to be able to keep up with our usual schedule here. So here were some of the readings I managed to squeeze in between tasks this week:

Personal Finance Articles

• All Financial Matters: It’s Amazing How Quickly Things Can Change
• Think Your Way To Wealth: How’s My 401k in the Current Market?- I’m Not Really Sure!
• My Two Dollars: Reader Question – Keep Emergency Fund Or Pay Off Credit Card?
• Credit Karma Blog: Ten Ways to Handle Financial Emergencies
• Funny About Money: Two DIY mesh bag hacks

Recent Carnivals

• Carnival of Personal Finance
• Working At Home Blog Carnival
• Best of Me Symphony
• The Road To Financial Independence

Acknowledgments

A big thank you to Tax Rascal (cute name aka Byrne Hobart) for voting me twice into his Top 10 For Taxes series. He included my photo essay on overlooked tax deductions in his Ten Best Tax Blog Posts: 2008, as well as selected this site as one of the Top 10 Tax Blogs out there. Now that he’s said that, I wish I could write more tax-related posts to live up to these honors! Thanks Byrne, this is pretty exciting!

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