Don't You Wish Your Hippo Was Hot Like Me
Feb. 28th, 2011 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousapelliSo, I have a grown-up money market account. It's supposed to be some percentage of return better than a savings account, because you have to keep more money in there. The month after I got it set up, the rate dropped from 1.6% to like .9% (of course), and it's sort of been creeping down ever since. Well, this month I was super excited because I managed to get up over the threshold to have a level 2 account, which has a higher rate of return than a level 1. Super excited! I'm an adult! I saved the monies! Yay!
I just got my statement for the month. The rates just dropped again, and now the level 2 rate is less than the level 1 rate was last month. JUST COME ON, NOW. uuuuugh why is being an adult such a clusterfuck. This is why people start keeping the money under their mattress. 2B keeps saying he's going to start buying silver ingots and putting them in a pirate chest, and honestly I think he might be on to something.
Saturday i went to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marksykins's RL baby shower, and drunktuesdays, stealstheashes, and mythofthebelle were there as well, thank goodness! It was a lot of fun and Marks looks really good and we only humiliated ourselves (and by extension, the entire internet) just a little bit.
So now i can finally post pictures of the cutest hippo ever!
new nails for the week. Dark pink swoop over light pink, and both are iridescent, which doesn't show up like usual.
sanapig and nokkun loafing about
and begging for treats
Datte chilling on top of his pigloo. lol, just like his sisters like to.
Blanket! I really liked this pattern, it was a wave pattern. It was pretty easy once I got going.
Blanket and hippo!
Best hippo ever. I also got an infant-safe rattle to sew inside, so it rattles! It turned out well in the end.
I just got my statement for the month. The rates just dropped again, and now the level 2 rate is less than the level 1 rate was last month. JUST COME ON, NOW. uuuuugh why is being an adult such a clusterfuck. This is why people start keeping the money under their mattress. 2B keeps saying he's going to start buying silver ingots and putting them in a pirate chest, and honestly I think he might be on to something.
Saturday i went to
marksykins's RL baby shower, and drunktuesdays, stealstheashes, and mythofthebelle were there as well, thank goodness! It was a lot of fun and Marks looks really good and we only humiliated ourselves (and by extension, the entire internet) just a little bit. So now i can finally post pictures of the cutest hippo ever!
new nails for the week. Dark pink swoop over light pink, and both are iridescent, which doesn't show up like usual.
sanapig and nokkun loafing about
and begging for treats
Datte chilling on top of his pigloo. lol, just like his sisters like to.
Blanket! I really liked this pattern, it was a wave pattern. It was pretty easy once I got going.
Blanket and hippo!
Best hippo ever. I also got an infant-safe rattle to sew inside, so it rattles! It turned out well in the end.
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Date: 2011-03-01 04:05 am (UTC)Love the blanket, and the hippo is awesome. For some reason my toys turn out lumpy with crooked facial features.
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Date: 2011-03-01 05:44 am (UTC)I painted my nails gold last night. As one does.
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Date: 2011-03-01 06:14 am (UTC)and that hippo is amazing!
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Date: 2011-03-01 11:12 pm (UTC)Even if japan did work like that, you'd hand your money over to Johnny too quick to earn any interest anyway XD
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Date: 2011-03-01 11:15 pm (UTC)i wouldn't say i have, like, boatloads of money in there, but i'm sure it's a more than most people my age do. I wish there was some reward to that D: while i'm at it, it would be nice if there were some (not incredibly distant) award to the fact that I'm putting back money for retirement at my age as well.
also i want a pony D:
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Date: 2011-03-01 11:19 pm (UTC)i played Lucifer last night when i had sanapig out, and sanapig and datte were all "RRRRRRRRRRRR." it's so funny how they still like that song. sanapig in particular seems to enjoy the koreans.
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Date: 2011-03-02 04:50 am (UTC)I love the blanket too! We've been using it since I got it in the mail! Mom loves the colors and fiance just likes snuggling under it to nap in the family room. ♥
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Date: 2011-03-02 06:24 am (UTC)well yeah in the US you have a negative savings rate still if I remember correctly? spending more than you have and all those credit cards and stuff though I guess politics is somewhat trying to change that after the crash in 2008... somewhat being the word there.
yeah I wish it would be more rewarding but then again, maybe for the time being it should be the feeling of security and having done the right thing? having overcome one's own lazy and reluctant self to put back money and not spend it on something shiny. having money for the bad times. :)
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Date: 2011-03-02 12:38 pm (UTC)BUT SNOWPIG PICTURES. xD Have to do.
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