Pay off car: check!

I drive a lot for my job.  Because of that, I get paid quite a bit of mileage when I drive.  Soon after I got my job 11 years ago, I decided I wanted another car, so I bought a Civic Hybrid.  I had the Civic for 7 years but paid it off in 4 (I think).  My budget allowed me to continue to put my mileage checks into savings for my next car.  Two and a half years ago, a little earlier than I had hoped, the Hybrid started having some problems.  Instead of putting money into the car, I decided to buy a new car.  I had been hoping to pay outright with the money I had saved, but didn't have quite enough, so I've had a car payment for a couple of years.  But today, I wrote the last check for that car payment!  Adios car debt!  Hello, saving for the next car!

Poof!

These little pom poms are Quincy's all time favorite toy.  I discovered this by accident because he chewed a pom pom off of one of his toys.  But then I was afraid he was going to lose it.  So I found a bag of a whole lot of them at Hobby Lobby.  I'm down to half a bag.  Quincy never leaves the condo.  Hence, the pom poms also should never leave the condo.  However, there are currently about 20 of them mysteriously missing.  I have always called these pom pom, "poofs", but I recently realized it is an apt name because we are currently losing them at about 2 per day.  Sometimes he is playing with one in my presence, I turn away for two seconds, I turn back and there is nothing there.  I don't think he is eating them, but seriously!  In case you are going to suggest it, I regularly check under the couches, in the couch cushions, and behind closet doors.  Nothing.  He has me stumped.  Good thing these cost me about $2 and I have plenty of them, so I can hand them out freely.  Usually he gets one in the morning to occupy him while I am getting ready (his favorite game is to get it stuck under the scale so I have to fetch it for him).  He also gets a new one in the evening when I am trying to exercise if I can't find any other ones around!

So, if you ever come to visit, we might spend some time hunting for poofs!