Day	Amount	Place	Category
Tuesday	$113.00	CostCo	House
Wednesday	$7.00	Cafeteria	Allowance
Friday	$47.00	Safeway	Groceries
	$35.00	Outback	Eating Out
Sunday	$27.00	Starbucks	Allowance +
	$75.00	Gas	Car

If felt like we spent more this week than we actually did. Monday, we had our first home study interview. That went well, I think. I also discovered on Monday that I had apparently overheated our paper shredder and broken it. So Tuesday, off I went to CostCo for a new one (which was only $70 of that expense- I also got some other household items). Wednesday I don’t remember if I forgot to bring lunch or just didn’t want what I brought, but I got myself lunch at the cafeteria. Thursday I was good, and then Friday morning, I stopped at Safeway for some goodies for the office as well as a few things for us. Friday night, after taking a load of stuff to Value Village, C and I went to dinner at Outback. We had cheese fries and split a steak.

I had planned on us spending money on Saturday. Saturday was the day we had to finish cleaning out the MIL’s apartment. We were going to take our moving help out for lunch when we were done, but everything took longer than we thought, and our help needed to head home. So we came inside, crashed, and had rice with cream of mushroom for dinner.

Sunday I got two $10 gift cards at Starbucks. One was as a thank you to one of our moving helpers (who is in my writing group) so that was cheaper than taking her out to lunch would have been. The other was as a birthday gift for another writing group member, though she was not able to make it this morning.

Then I went and got gas for the car. And not just gas for the car, but also filled 3 of our 10 liter cans.

 

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. I did, however, start a new website this weekend called The Prose Passage, which is focused on writing and critique. As of now, I haven’t added an AdSense to it, but I probably will.

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.

Our credit card points were being doubled or something for February and March. If we have another month or two like those, I will be able to pay for my entire plane ticket with credit card points. As it stands, right now I could buy a ticket with points and only $70 out of pocket.

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

We went to the dog park 4 times over 5 days this week. That involves exercise not just for them, but us. The weather has been lovely and it has been nice to get outside and walk around. In addition, I mowed the front lawn today. That definitely counts as exercise.

I don’t know how healthy we have been eating, as Tuesday night J has a craving for enchiladas, and so made us some.