My money market account interest rate at my credit union is so far below what other banks are offering, I took about 2/3 of the money out and put it into one of those competitive money market accounts paying over 4%. Okay, the rate is not great but I need the fund to be as liquid as possible and still make a little money.

My friend said a CD isn't a bad way to go for since I rarely touch the money in my money market now, but I don't know. I just don't like the idea of my money being locked away from me for any amount of time.

What little money I have, I want to have access to sadly 24/7. This new money market fund comes with checks and an ATM with no charges too!

Thank god my gold and oil funds have doubled since I bought them last year. I am hoping oil goes to a $100 a barrel and gold goes up to $1,000 an ounce. I know this is bad because if oil goes to $100 a barrel, our economy will seriously be up the creek without much of a paddle.

I don't buy that many groceries, but I have been noticing these last few months that shopping at Trader Joe's is now becoming very, very expensive, almost as expensive as Whole Paycheck. I don't know how people are coping if their financial situation is already stretched. And gas is way out of control. I am so glad I don't drive to work anymore. I always picked up gas at a Costco out the city anyway, which retails gas about $0.20 below San Francisco and about $0.10 below the gas price in the area the store is located.

And yes, I am happy that I am used to being a vegetarian because buying food if you're a vegetarian is a hell of a lot cheaper than buying food if you're not. I'm used to eating like a poor vegetarian person who's always on a diet; it's been my MO since I was 19 years old. Going back to eating protein has only been a recent thing. It's probably good I don't drink very much now as well, since drinking adds up. I have an amazingly well-stocked liqour cabinet anway, so it's not like I need to ever buy the stuff for another year or two.

Clothes and anti-aging products like vitamins are my money drainers, and books too! Especially clothes that are on sale as I can't resist a sale; I think it's a genetic thing. And I hate not feeling good and not feeling healthy, and any amount of money is so worth spending to always feel like you're doing the latest and greatest to feel good and be healthy. I'm not sure how this attitude jives with my inability to keep my weight at a reasonable level, since being fat is not healthy. Perhaps it could have something to do wtih the fact that purchaseing another vitamin is so much more pleasurable than denying myself a large McDonald's french fries when I'm cranky and tired.

Just my luck! The first time I decide I actually needed to vote for someone on "American Idol", Chris the cool alternative rock guy, my nominee gets booted off. I think the chick should be have been booted off.

My prediction is it will be either be Elliot or Taylor. Elliot has a great voice, but Taylor is like the typical band singer guy you always see in small and dark bars. I think people would love to see a guy like that get a chance to make it big.

At the New Living Exp over the weekend, I bought something called Rejuvenizer in Shimmering Mint.

The Rejuvenizers® – Subtle energy protection for today's living.
The Rejuvenizer® line, created by Dr. Phyllis Light, is designed to help protect your physical and subtle bodies from the harmful effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and to help repair subtle damages to those bodies from all such negative energies, as well as from drugs, surgical procedures, and other people's negativity directed at you. The Rejuvenizer website

Two friends had purchased them and said they worked. It was so cool because Dr. Phyllis Light was at the booth when I bought I was there, and she actually touched the Rejuvenizer I bought. The one I purchased was made by an artist who doesn't work for them anymore, so her pieces are rare. Dr. Light told me she was wearing one by the same artist, but here was in a different color.

I feel so naked now without my super receptor. I've been wearing one continously for so long. I want to say 2002, but I don't remember now. I just checked. I started wearing my receptor in December 2002. I'm hoping my Rejuvinezer will help, but just in case I'm going to wear the first receptor I bought.

So I found out why my stupid pleiadian technology necklace doesn't work anymore. I decided I needed to change the stone on my necklace from an amethyst to a garnet, and when I took it to a jeweler at lunch time he said I had somehow crushed the amethyst and the stone was worthless.

I have no idea how I crushed the thing, but I guess I did. It was time to change the stone anyway, but just in case it's not, the jeweler is going to change the prongs so I can change the jewel myself. I am buying a 4.5 mm amethyst and garnet to see if changing the stone makes a difference, cool huh? The jeweler said it was the same price. I wonder how much a 4.5 mm ruby would cost? I'll have to ask him when I pick it up next week.

The jeweler guy was nice and told me he would change the diamond earrings my grandma gave me into screwbacks so I wouldn't lose them and change me only $110. He was such a nice guy and the only jeweler who does jewelry repairs in the Embarcadero and probably downtown San Francisco I would have taken it to the jeweler in my neighborhood who did some repairs for me last year, but he takes way too long. This Embarcadero jeweler is probably very expensive, but at least he's fast.

And yes, it is going to cost me a very pretty penny to get my prong redone and everything else I'm doing, but it's worth it my alien technology starts working again.