Saturday Link Love (21st January 2012)

Good morning! What are your plans this weekend? I'm working this morning and then this evening my daughter is coming to visit. It's her first visit since Christmas and I'm really looking forward to seeing her.

I haven't talked about my eldest daughter too much on this site, but in 2005 she nearly died from the brain virus encephalitis. The initial stages of her illness, and subsequent hospital stay were without doubt the worst 2 months of my life and something I still find very hard to talk about.....probably why I haven't mentioned it on this site before! Anyway we had to delay her university studies for 2 years in order to give her brain time to recover (at once stage she had no short term memory at all; you would reply to her questions as as soon as you finished speaking she would ask the same question again). But now she's very well again, has finished her degree and just before the holidays managed to secure herself a new job with a brilliant company, which is the reason for her visit. She starts next week and probably wont have time to come again for a little while. I'm making us all a curry this evening and we may even open a bottle (or two!) :)

Okay onto a few of my favourite posts from the last seven days;

• Are you falling down the frugal rabbit hole? at Retire by Forty
• My vision board 2012 at Life DOESN'T Begin at Retirement
• How Balance Transfer Roulette Almost Landed Me in the Crazy House at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
• Ten years ago at We may be poor, but we are happy - I urge everyone to read this post
• My 5 Year Plan at Making Sense of Cents (I do love a 5 year plan!)

Over at Move to Portugal this week

• January Mini Goals (Mid month update)
• Kitchen Equipment

That's it for today. Have a wonderful weekend :)

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