It's a Monday all right

What IS it about Mondays? GRRRRR. This one is shaping up to be a doozy.

edit: improving. phew.

House In Order, day 32

Yes, earthquake/disaster preparedness does TOO count as "getting my house in order". Even if it's just planning and decision-making, not implementing. So there. Pthththbtt.

House In Order, day 33

(laundry and) Reconciled several accounts in Quicken. It really helps when I do that more than once a quarter, yanno?

Also put a stop-loss (limit sell) on the one stock I really should have diversified long ago. If it triggers then I have work to do. If not the stock isn't falling. Automation rocks my socks.

House In Order, day 34 (so far)

Roth IRA created for 2005 and 2006. Easy peasy! And BEFORE the actual deadline. Be afraid, be very afraid. My brain is being taken over by aliens... proactive, responsible, grown-up aliens. :-)

Lent ends when?

Roman Catholic Lent, let's say, to simplify the question a bit. I have heard that it is supposed to be "forty days not counting the Sundays", which could mean skipping the Sundays and making the rest total forty or skipping the Sundays within a grand total of forty.

- Several sources claim Lent ends with the evening prayers on Maundy Thursday. (This year, the 13th April.) I've seen this a few places.
- I found one claiming it ends on Good Friday. (This year, the 14th April.)
- Some claim it ends on midnight the day before Easter. (This year, the 15th April.)
- Somewhere I thought I read it ended on the 8th this year, which is pretty clearly too short. You can't get forty out of that.
- Skipping the Sundays within a grand total of forty would have it end on the 10th, which I have seen nowhere.
- "Skipping the Sundays and making the rest total forty" would agree with an ending of April 15, unless the Triduum also doesn't count in which case it'd be the 13th but then NOTHING gives a total of forty. And forty seemed to be pretty majorly symbolic.

My confusion is almost certainly due to the variations in Lent in the various denominations. Web sites don't often say whom they represent; they say only "This Is The One True Answer".

So, LJ-friends, help? Roman Catholic Lent.

House In Order, day 34 part 2

The old 401(k) is finally in Quicken. This includes performance tracking back to its inception in the fall of 2000. For this one, I didn't "fake it" as one monolithic unit; I entered every single bit of fund data. Aren't I just the kind of woman you want to talk to at a party?

Except for the Roth IRA I opened this morning, that's the last account I had left to put in there. I'm not going to enter the IRA until I get its paperwork in the mail.

Wow. It's done. It's all done. I feel so... taken over by aliens.