Today is my lucky day. Well technically the lucky day was earlier this week, but today I get to reap the benefits of that good luck. My girlfriend happened to score some free Canucks tickets from her employer. Since they’re the company seats they use to schmooze with clients and partners, I’m sure they’ll be awesome seats. I’m not picky though. I’d be happy even if they were the worst seats in the arena…it is free after all. And yeah, I love me some hockey.
The shitty part about it is that I think my girlfriend is coming down with the flu again. Hopefully she’s feeling well enough to enjoy the game. I’ll have to rub it in that her obsessive hygiene wasn’t enough to protect her. I scoff at her offers of berry scented hand sanitizer. Maybe I’m just self conscious but I don’t think a guy should smell like that. I especially don’t want my hands smelling like that while eating. And yes I will put my hands all over that railing that hundreds of people have touched today.
*Correction…I’m going to the Canucks game on Saturday night. I guess I got the days switched around after publishing the poll on Friday instead of my blog update.
Early next week I have another session with my new personal trainer. As mentioned last week I’m doing a deal where I help him with some marketing and I get personal training. The first session went well, but boy was I so afterwards…and when I say afterwards I mean days after lol. I guess it’s been a while since I had a good workout. I was supposed to go again this past week, but I didn’t want to go while walking like an old man. Plus I had a sore throat that was affecting my breathing. So I figured that was enough excuse to put it off. I do intend to stick with it, but these first few sessions might be a little tough.
While I’m rambling, who out there reads fictional novels? I’m just finishing up Winter of the World by Ken Follett….awesome book. Well technically it’s historical fiction, but I highly recommend checking it out. It’s actually the sequel to Fall of Giants and the whole thing is a planned trilogy. So if you like that kind of thing, read the first one. It’s one of those big clunker 900+ pages books, but it goes by quite quickly. I went through a long period where I didn’t do any reading, but these days I find it’s a good escape.
Favorite Posts On Other Blogs
In case you’re not into reading fiction or you just need to quench your finance blog appetite, here’s this week’s feature posts from some of my favorite bloggers:
How To Avoid Getting Ripped Off on Car Repairs on Blue Collar Workman
Shopping Tips We Use To Save Money « Canadian Budget Binder on Canadian Budget Binder
Lifestyle Creep and You on Don’t Quit Your Day Job
Frugal Gifts for Girls Who Hate Valentine’s Day on Eyes On The Dollar
Credit Card Roulette: A Free Meal or a Monstrous Bill?Life And My Finances on Life And My Finances
Things to Watch Out For When Buying a Car On Finance on Money Bulldog
Expecting a Baby? Here are Some Money-Saving Tips — MoneySmartGuides.com on Money Smart Guides
Reuse leftovers on Reach Financial Independence
January Spending Plan Results on Vix Money
On Conquering Self Doubt (and some great weekend reads) on We Only Do This Once
Five Common Reasons Budgets Fail – WiseDollar on Wise Dollar
Making My Cash-Back Credit Card Work for Me on Girl Meets Debt
The First Step to Recovery is to Admit You Don’t Have a Budget on Debt RoundUp
Leave The Wallet At Home on Freedom Thirty Five
5 Fun and Frugal Last Minute Valentines Gifts For Her – Frugal Rules on Frugal Rules
You Didn’t Save Any Money on iHeart Budgets
The 5 Commandments for Money and Marriage on One Smart Dollar
How to Build Kick-Ass Credit Score on Street Smart Finance
Time vs. Money: A Constant Issue – The Family Finances on The Family Finances
Five Ways to Fast-Forward Your Retirement Savings on Work Save Live
Using a windfall to pay off debt on The Outlier Model
Valentine’s Day Date-Getting Ahead Planning The Perfect Valentine Date on Fearless Men
Goodbye Canadian penny, goodbye great penny idioms on My Own Advisor
Take Control of Your Financial Future Seminar on Dividend Ninja
I hope you enjoyed the game Jeremy. I appreciate the mention and good luck with the personal trainer.
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We did really enjoy it. Great seats, our team dominated and was very inexpensive despite the $8 beers. Maybe I won’t tell the personal trainer about the beers though lol.
What beers?
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Thanks for the kind mention, Jeremy! I also like reading. I am reading Warren Buffett’s new book: Tap Dance to Work. A nice read.
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I’m sure that’s a good read. Warren Buffet seems like a pretty interesting guy. It would be cool to learn more about what really makes him tick. I’ve moved on to an investing book myself.
I was completely unaware that Buffet had a book out. Thanks for sharing, I’m going to have to read it next.
Hope you enjoyed the game on Sat night Jeremy.
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Thanks for sharing these blog posts. I was really enjoying this long list you shared.
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Glad you’re enjoying it Sarah. With so many great blogs online, there’s always more quality posts to read.
Sincere thanks for posting this great post and list. Always find new blogs that I hadn’t stumbled across before. Have fun at the game! You know you will enjoy it better because they were f-r-e-e
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It is amazing how many finance blogs out there. It works out well because then you can find blogs that you can really relate to.
Your kitty looks a lot like mine. I love that kind of sore you get from a personal trainer. I haven’t felt like that in awhile. Have fun at the game!
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The photo isn’t my cat, but he looks a bit like him. Here’s a photo of my cats:
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I agree that being sore from working out is a good feeling, especially knowing that you’re bound to see results if it made you sore.
Hope you enjoyed the game. I’ve been to one hockey game. It was the local minor league team and it was part of the holiday party. It was definately in the cheap seats and, I don’t know if this is because I don’t really watch hockey, but it was hard to follow. I know I never actually saw the puck!
I’m hit or miss with historical fiction. I did like Vanity Fair, well most of it, it was pretty long, too. But I’ve found that my favorites are actually alternative histories. If you like dragons, I’d recommend His Majesty’s Dragon my Naomi Novick. Imagine the Napoleanic wars with semi-tamed dragons. Peter Jackson is supposed to be turning the books into a mini-series.
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Sounds like you had some pretty bad seats. In some arenas even the cheap seats are good, but that isn’t necessarily the case in a minor league arena. Of course it does help to know what is going on.
As for historical fiction, I’m pretty picky with what authors I read, but I’ve liked all the ones from Ken Follett. He does a great job building up characters and mixing in suspense.
I hope the hockey game was fun. I hate watching hockey on TV, but it’s really fun live. Thanks for the mention.
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I love hockey on tv almost as much as in person. On tv you don’t get the crowd atmosphere, but you get all the commentary and comforts of home or a pub.
Thanks for the mention Jeremy! I hope you enjoyed the game, Please don’t tell me they were playing the “Canes”, my hometown team. Jose
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Nope…with the shortened season it’s only games within your conference. So the Canucks won’t be playing them until next season.
That’s really cool about the hockey tickets. And we wont too so that probably made the value even better. Sounds like you’re doing well with your personal trainer, keep up the workouts :0) Soreness and pain is just weakness leaving the body
Been awhile since I got into a good book. I think last novel I read was Deathly Hallows. Will keep an eye out for Ken Follett’s works next time when I browse the library. Thanks for the mention.
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Apparently I have a lot of weakness to leave my body lol. I wouldn’t say I’m doing well yet, but it’s something I want to commit to. Do look into a Ken Follett book. I liked a bunch of his older books too, but they’re not quite as good as his new stuff.
My goal is to have someone like you Jeremy getting interested in my blog!!!
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That’s a very noble goal, especially since I just haven’t had the time to read and comment on blogs in the last while.
Thanks for posting these! Have fun at the Canucks game!
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No problem Johnny.
Well I’m very jealous right now! I’d love to see a real live hockey game, I say real because I go and watch my local team play occasionaly but they’re only a small time UK hockey team so it’s nothing like watching the Canucks!. Hope it was a good game and thanks for the mention Jeremy.
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Well I am impressed that even though you’re in the UK you like hockey and American football. I don’t think UK will ever be a powerhouse in hockey lol.
Sounds like you’re getting a good workout mate. Enjoy it, pain=gain they say. Have fun at the game tonight, I have yet to go to a Canadian hockey game, one day maybe. Cheers!
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Come out this way to watch a real hockey team. You don’t want to ruin your first hockey experience with a shitty team like the Leafs.
Thank you so much for the mention. I am extremely flattered. I am loving your blog as well. Look forward to more great writing!
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Thanks for the kind words Tony, although a lot of the writing around here is from guest writers these days.
Bummer on the flu, but that’s pretty sweet to score free tix!! Have fun at the game, and thanks for the reshare!!
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Well it turned out she didn’t have the flu. So we were able to fully enjoy the game. No problem about sharing your post.
Thanks for sharing list of all you favorite blog posts, hoping that some day i will also find a mention in your coveted list.
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It’s really not too tough to get featured. For a hint, look at who is listed on my previous post. That’s all I’ll say
I hope you had an excellent time at the hockey game! You should tell your girlfriend to touch the railings more; it helps build up your immune system! Too much anti-bacterial is actually a bad thing…but what do I know?
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I’d believe that. If your immune system doesn’t get to build up immunity, then when something does get through it would probably have a tougher time fighting it off. We both ride the train to work every weekday though. So you’d think all of that exposure would do the trick.
Great compilation!
Thanks Marvin. I try to share some quality posts from other bloggers.