Day	Amount	Place	Category
Wednesday	$    7.94	Cafeteria	Allowance
	$  13.84	Safeway	Groceries
Thursday	$    7.69	Teriyaki	Allowance
Friday	$  24.08	AutoZone	Car
	$    8.94	Safeway	Groceries
Saturday	$  67.73	CostCo	Groceries
	$  41.97	Safeway	Groceries
Sunday	$260.00	Fryes	Allowance

I think this is accurate. This week has been a little off. I spent some cash on other days as I was running around, but I normally don’t count cash I have on hand.

Tuesday night we went to a concert- Flogging Molly. It was a lot of fun, and a really nice evening out with a really high energy concert from one of our favorite bands.

Wednesday was Pi Day, so J made shepherd’s pie for dinner. Of course, we didn’t have potatoes, so I had to run to the store.

Saturday was very busy for me. I did a lot of cleaning. It was C’s last day of class for the quarter, and we had friends over for corned beef (fried in bacon grease).

This morning started with one of C’s hard drives failing, so after doing some more packing at his mom’s place, off to Fryes we went for a new hard drive. Did you know that there had been flooding in Thailand that has caused a worldwide hard drive shortage? It is one of those odd things about our global supply chains that we never even think about until it actually effects us.

 

 

I have six goals for 2012. As part of the Sunday evening posts, I am tracking those goals, kind of like I do for spending, in order to hold myself accountable.

1)      Be paid for publishing one piece of fiction

Submissions so far: 2

Responses: 1 rejection 1 acceptance

2)      Make money publishing my next art/fiction book

This is on hold for now.

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

My current balance is $45. I have already bought the ticket to FinCon12.

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

I plan to be a member of Epsilon class when the application goes up in August. I do need to make sure I’m still connecting with new challengers, though, because a lot of the challengers on my list this last time will be Yakezie Delta class members.

5)      Make money from my blogs.

AdSense earnings: $18.58 (They won’t send me any money until I hit $100)

6)      Be healthier

Okay, meatloaf, shepherd’s pie, and corned beef fried in bacon grease have been our main meals this last week. That is very much not healthy. We also only managed one trip to do the dog park (though that’s more about our crazy weather- it snowed twice this last week).

But most of our evenings this week have been dedicated to doing small trips to pack up over at the MIL’s apartment or C doing work on his final projects for school.

I’m still giving us a pass for this last week, and will probably give us a pass for the next one as well (next Saturday is the official move out day for the MIL’s apartment). But after that, we’ll try to be back on track.