First, some Thank Yous…
Jana @ Daily Money Shot and Gin @ Frugal Students – Thank you both (again) for your amazing guest posts. I am so blessed to have online friends like you, who I not only enjoy “talking” to, but learning from every week. You are both amazing.

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I’ve been on vacation since last Saturday, so I’m having a hard time remembering exactly what day we spent what. Here’s how I think spending since Friday has gone…
Friday – <$20 @ Half Price Books, $1.60 @ Safeway for 2 cans of dices tomatoes (for arroz con pollo)
Saturday – $30 @ JCPennys for new jeans (I now have 2 pair)
Sunday – $0 – I only got dressed in order to take the dogs to the dog park.

For the week overall, there wasn’t much spending on our part. My mother was visiting, and since our trip out to the coast and the San Juan Islands happened because she wanted them to, she paid for pretty much everything.
I did CostCo shop on Thursday and pay for half of our meal at a new Asian buffet (nice, but pricey).
My mom bought us a new love seat, new curtains and curtain rod for the room she uses (she broke the old curtain rod and used that as an excuse), and some new yard tools. She did a lot of yard work and cleaning/decluttering, which she almost always does when she comes to visit. (And yes, she does it because she wants to. I have a hard time getting her to stop.)

That’s about all the excitement here for now. Next Sunday should be a regular weekend update, but then my father comes in for a week the following Tuesday, so we’ll be kind of off again the following weekend.