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Link love (Powered by rainstorms and money talks)

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I’ve had money on the brain even more often than normal lately (not helped by Women’s Money Week!) thanks to some financial setbacks.

  • As you might remember, T had a SUPER AWESOME brush with death recently on his motorbike thanks to some idiot boy racer. After a few weeks of being off work/on half days/off again due to medical certificate snafus, he was finally sent back to work on full hours, thank the heavens – because as an HOURLY worker with no built up leave right now, him being off work was hurting. (As we’ve learned, ACC has a minimum 7 day stand down policy. Not that is matters, since they refused to cover this incident. A complaint is being filed about the handling of the case, which T’s company is going to handle going forward since we’re leaving the country.)
  • His bike, which had just been rebuilt with new fairings in anticipation of selling it, also had about $1k knocked off its (cosmetic) value in a second due to that accident.
  • Since then, he’s been avoiding even looking at the bike, which still needs a couple of things done to it to get it running smoothly. That would have been fine, until his friend, who was keen to buy it as is, went and bought a car instead. With just a couple of weeks left, I do not see it a) getting fixed up or b) sold. [insert rant about useless males]
  • A couple of long-shot travel blogging pitches/sponsorship proposals went nowhere. Ah well.

Still in the works: my post about financing our trip. I want to be able to present the most accurate numbers, so I’m putting it off until as close to our departure as possible.

On the plus side, I don’t need to pay my wedding venue or wedding celebrant until the week before the big day, which is nice for cashflow.

Got any financial wins or losses of your own to share?

This week’s links:

In the wake of Dove’s new campaign (which I adore), Emily Jane pens a beautiful post on self-image and self-acceptance.

The Asian Pear makes a reasoned case for not driving. (Being shacked up with T, I have a car and driver, but personally would probably drive once a week to the supermarket, if that.)

Kelly Abroad recounts her New York love story from the very beginning.

Some snippets of sage career advice via Publishing Trendsetter, most of which are relevant to all workers, regardless of industry.

Make a Living Writing was on fire this week, collecting true tales of woe from a bunch of content mill writers and reminding us that we all have our own crosses to bear, even when we don’t publicly broadcast them.

When did I last link to A Practical Wedding? I can’t even remember. Let me rectify that. This week’s post on how to be in love is simply sublime – and timely for me, as it’s been a rough week on that front.

Lastly…

Americans, it’s been a hard week. My heart goes out to you. I saw the infamous uncensored Jeff Bauman photo earlier this week, and while I can’t unsee it, there have also been many photos and stories chronicling the depths and breadths of human generosity. And one of the few (only?) Boston bloggers I follow, Sweet Caroline, published a photo montage from Boston that’s really quite lovely.

2 thoughts on “Link love (Powered by rainstorms and money talks)

  • Reply Budget and the Beach April 22, 2013 at 02:35

    I saw that pic of Jeff the day if happened too, and I was in complete shock that pic existed. And what’s worse is that I believe that’s how his family knew he had been injured. His sister saw the pic online and called their dad to tell him. I’m sorry about the financial woes right now, but I’m really glad to hear the BF is doing better.

  • Reply SarahN April 22, 2013 at 09:25

    Sorry to hear about your yucky week 🙁 Loved the link on driving (I don’t own a car, but seem to drive daily thanks to work providing me with a car for work only… then there’s the bf’s!) Also LOVED the love link – wow. Just wow. Still have to get to some of the other links, but thanks for sharing the reading gold you found.

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