Day	Amount	Place	Category
Wednesday	$14.50	Safeway	Groceries
Thrusday	$28.00	Rx Dog Food	Pets
Friday	$45.00	Gas	Car
Saturday	$212.25	CostCo	Groceries
	$94.50	Safeway	Groceries

It was a good week and good weekend. We had one of C’s college friends over for a ribs on Sunday, and that was the extent of our excitement.

Oh- and my hockey team, the New Jersey Devils, beat the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference series and will start playing for the Stanley Cup on Wednesday. At first, I was thinking that I couldn’t watch any of the games because of our limited basic cable. So my brother used the cable over the internet service he pays for to let me watch “with” him. And then I remembered, that even with my more basic than basic cable, I get Canadian television. That means hockey with good announcers and Don Cherry’s suits.

 

 

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. However, I did have a chance to talk with the artist I want to work with on Friday, and her life has settled down, so there’s a good chance we can start work on this sometime in June. (When my life settles down a bit.)

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

I’m in the negatives allowance wise.

Plane ticket prices have gone up, so right now, with credit card points, it would cost about $50 out of pocket for me to buy my ticket to FinCon. However, we’re still putting quite a bit on the card each month, and I don’t expect prices will go up much from where they are, and might even go back down again. (Sweet spot for prices out of Seattle tends to be around 4-6 weeks before the flight.) So for now, I’m still holding off on booking the plane ticket.

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.

In order to develop relationships with new challengers, I have decided that each edition of What I’m Reading on Saturdays will now include a new challenger.

5)      Make money from my blogs.

AdSense earnings: $21.94 (They won’t send me any money until I hit $100.) Views on this blog (and all my blogs) have been going down lately, and I know that’s because I haven’t been as active on twitter or commenting in the last few months. As I pick up my activity I expect activity here will pick up and my AdSense income will pick up, at least a few cents or so.

6)      Be healthier

We dog parked Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, we also bathed the dogs. That aggravate a muscle in my lower back. It didn’t really start bothering me until Sunday night, but pretty much all day today (Monday) my back has been really bugging me. So C and I stayed home, ate left over ribs, homemade mac and cheese, and pasta salad and watched Justified. Then in the evening, we play tested D&D 5e.

So not a super active or healthy food eating week, but right now, my back hurts, so I don’t really care.