Baby Finances

LoLCreatives posted in her blog - and I thought I should post in mine. I've had a lot going on in my life in the last 9 months and writing in a blog has not been a priority. I joined a gym last June and took up running again. I'm back down to the weight I was in high school (maybe a few pounds lighter actually...) I'm running the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge on June 24th in Boston. It's a 3.5 mile race. I'm hoping/expecting to be able to finish in I pestered my boyfriend into running the race with me. We ran last weekend - and I think I almost broke him. I got a community garden plot this summer. I've planted ridiculous number of things - garlic, onion, beets, carrots, peas, peppers, tomatoes, a little broccoli and collard greens, along with some basil and cilantro. Don't forget lettuce and spinach as well.... I think I might have gone a little over board. But hopefully at least some of it will grow. Work is going well - it's been really ...

I saw an article the other day about Aaron Patzer at some NYC school - telling kids about personal finance. He announced/off handed remarked/ was reported in the article that Mint.com is going to add a "Goals" tab. I'm so excited! Freaking finally!!! Mint.com has been a little stagnant lately with the integration with Intuit. They've done some clean up work - IE added a lot more banks. Though one of my co-workers still can't add his wife's car for some reason... but there are a lot of banks and accounts out there. It's got to be a lot of work to add all that. The reason I'm so excited about Goals - is because I don't have to use two sites now. I can stop using JustThrive. The only thing I really used JustThrive for was goals. JustThrive did a lot of weird stuff recently - like you can't actually budget yourself - it budgets for you. Okay - so JustThrive while I know your programmers are smart - they don't know when my car insurance ...