Happy Groundhog day!

Tomorrow the boys are going to a friends house for most of the day and I have nothing to do! I take that back... I have to drive to Saginaw and pick up Christian's MP3 player. Other than that, nothing. The budget is done for the month, the house is still clean, emails are answered. If I wouldn't feel like such a dork walking into a restaurant by myself, I would go out to lunch. I think I might pick up some take-out Chinese and come home and read a book.

Christian finally found the MP3 player he wanted so last night we went to buy it. Turns out my computer didn't have enough memory. Oops! I knew I should have upgraded a long time ago. After a few more hours he decided on a different one. We checked the website and it said it would work with my system so we ordered it. Went to the store to pick it up this morning and on the way home realized it won't. Went back to the store, spent an hour looking at the others and he didn't find any that had the features he wanted so we just returned it.

On the way home we both realized that we could just add more memory (my system had everything else it needed.) Came home and added some of the RAM we have from my old computer, added it and now it will work.

The manager said I should call the customer service number for the online store and tell them the info is wrong, so they can fix it. I did, and they gave me a$10 gift certificate. While Christian is at his friends house tomorrow I am going to go pick up the first one he wanted and surprise him.

I finally decided where to put the emergency fund, so I might go to the bank and take care of that. It has been in the checking account until I decided, but I think I am going to just stick it in a savings account at my bank. I was going to put it in ING (currently paying 4.50%- email me for a referral :oD )but the turnover time (2-3 business days, although I once had a deposit take more than 2 weeks...) makes me a smidge nervous. HSBC is currently paying 5.05%, so if I do decide to go with an online bank I may just open an account with them. I might just keep it at the old brick and mortar local bank I currently use, but the interest sucks. But Dave Ramsey says the EF isn't there to earn interest, it is there to bail your behind out so I decided to go with a savings account at the brick and mortar. (See where Christian gets his indecisiveness from??)

OH! I do get to pick out a new monitor! My monitor sinking fund will be fully funded tomorrow - which is of course a week after my monitor went out - so I get to pick out the one I want and order it. I will finally be ale to view websites the way they were supposed to be viewed, not the way Alex's old monitor wants me to!

Exciting stuff, I know. LOL