Checkmate

Wow, it’s been a busy day. We took our friend to breakfast at Merritt Bakery, then I drove her to the Oakland Airport, while Seppo returned home to walk the dog. When I got back, we worked on weeding the front yard, then went off to our bank to do crazy joint banking stuff. We now have a joint checking and savings account, and individual checking accounts with cosigning rights, in addition to our personal credit cards and one joint credit card. It sounds complicated, but it will actually streamline our billpaying every month.

In short, we’ll direct deposit into our joint account, and get personal spending money moved into our checking every month. All bills get paid from the joint accounts, all “family” purchases are put on the joint credit card. It’ll be easy to see our monthly input and output. All personal purchases will be made on the personal checking accounts and credit cards, with each of us managing our respective discretionary income as we choose to see fit. I foresee this being very convenient for gift purchasing and random splurges. 🙂

After this complex bit of hanky-banky [sorry], we went off to the Apple store so that I could return my weak-assed iPod nano-specific Belkin FM transmitter — whew, that’s a lot of descriptors — and get a speaker-output-to-tapedeck adaptor. We’re rolling old skool style, baby.

To further advance our ridiculously productive morning, we dropped by the Cingular store to upgrade our sims, as instructed to us by the anonymous voice on our voicemail. I think we should all start following instructions left to us by anonymous voices on our voicemail. Yes. *plods along all zombie-like on your ass*

Now, I’m compiling a list of ingredients to purchase for The Revenge of the French Laundry Potluck that we are having tomorrow. If you haven’t been invited, don’t be mad but read our disclaimer at the foodblog instead. 🙂