Day	Amount	Place	Category
Monday	$24.00	movie	allowance
Tuesday	$12.00	petsmart	pets
Friday	$10.00	safeway	groceries
	$46.00	gas	car
Saturday	$33.50	trader joe’s	groceries
	$16.50	WoW	allowance
Sunday	$5.50	Left4Dead2	allowance

So having a 4 day weekend meant that I forgot about this post last night, and then almost forgot about it tonight because today is Monday. As the week went, there was not a whole lot of spending, which is good.

My weekend has been wonderful, and I am sad to see it end, but such is life.

 

 

We are over half way through 2012. I revised some of my goals because life took some turns I wasn’t quite planning on when I came up with them.

1)      Be paid for publishing one piece of fiction

Submissions so far: 4

Responses: 1 rejection 1 acceptance, 2 pending

The anthology I had a piece accepted to is now available to buy on Amazon. It’s called Conquest Through Determination.

2)      Pay All Adoption Expenses in Cash & Still Pay for C’s College Out of Pocket

We’re doing good here. This was helped tremendously by getting 3x as much in life insurance from the MIL than expected. Our savings is still growing, and we’re in really good shape.

For those who have been looking for an update, we’re waiting to get some paperwork back from the state of Nevada, where we all used to live. I am hopeful that we will have all paperwork submitted and just be waiting on official confirmation of the foster license by the end of the month.

3)      Attend FinCon12. Pay for the trip with money from allowance/side projects saved/earned BEFORE the conference starts. Goal: $600

FinCon was awesome. Not all of the money came from allowance/side projects, but it was still easily affordable, so I’m calling this a win.

4)      Become a member of Yakezie (6 month anniversary is Jan 21)

I am not certain this is still the right goal for me to be going after. I love what the Yakezie network stands for, but I don’t care that much about getting my Alexa under 200k. It’s pretty stable around the 275k mark. Maybe I can convince Sam to create a Friend of Yakezie badge/category, for those of us who don’t feel like being permanent challengers.

Anyway, it’s something I’m pondering.

Current ranking: 250,872

Back down a bit.

5)      Make money from my blogs.

AdSense earnings: $29.82 at the end of September, with $0.32 made so far this month. (They won’t send me any money until I hit $100.)

Amazon earnings: $0.00

One of the things that FinCon really brought home for me is that I’m not actually in this for the money. For now, I’m leaving the AdSense blocks up, but they’re getting moved further down the page. I’ll keep tracking, but making money isn’t why I blog.

6)      Be healthier

Good week for exercise and calories. I’m still on track for weight loss. That’s about all for now.