Yes, I’m still around. No, I haven’t forgotten about my blog.

Lifes been interesting the past couple of months, and I want to thank all those who have commented and wrote to me. I appreciate it a lot.

I wanted to let you all know that I will be taking a brief hiatus from blogging. I plan to refocus on blogging at the end of this year. I have so many “Drafts” saved up, but no time or motivation to continue at the moment.

I may still post on occassion, but it will be infrequent, so I apologize in advanced.

I wish you all the best! And may Thanksgiving be spent with family and friends…

Regards,
FF&B

PS Brownie has been doing very well! He graduated from “Advanced class” and is now enjoying his “winterbreak” haha. Take care until the next time.

If anything makes the month of October worth it, at least my net worth has grown over 5%. The way the market has been performing and locking in my gains on my 401k, should help me get close to my 2006 goal of increasing my net worth by $100,000. We shall see…I’m currently at 77% of my goal with 2 months left. Christmas is around the corner though. Argh. So actually it’s more like 1.5 months left.

My investments in non-retirement grew almost 10%, thanks in part to the performance of my company’s stock. I have others as well, but my non-retirement investments is over 60% company stock, ~$20,000. Don’t worry my retirement is greatly diversified compared to my non-retirement investments.

No large expenses this month, none planned in November either. Christmas shopping, but I’m going to see if I can use points and other nifty things I’ve saved up through the year to fund Christmas, plus I got that brunch planned with friends.

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Is there any advice now that you could give yourself a few weeks/months ago when you started trying to get fired?

No, I am not trying to get fired. I’m just frustrated and sick and tired of the work I’m doing. So to preserve some sense of myself, I have to put up a wall, and this wall prevents me from getting burnt out. Unfortunately, even that didn’t help this past month.

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I wanted to congratulate and thank all of you who participate. I only wish this past month could have been a better one where I posted consistently. It was just a bad month overall. I have so much to catch up with!

Oh the winners are:

D with 29 comments, then Maria with 20, and mapgirl with 13!

I’ll be sending an email shortly to each of you to confirm the email address is correct. Once that is done, I’ll send you the certificates.

I hope you enjoyed it…I look forward to doing more in the future, next time on a good month I hope.

Expect a tally of comments in the next few days.  Thank you for all your participation!  I hope you enjoyed this contest as much as I did.