Day	Amount	Place	Category
Monday	$5.00	Cafeteria	Allowance
Tuesday	$48.00	Lowes	House
Wednesday	$57.00	Azteca	Eating Out
	$10.00	Dentist	Medial
Friday	$6.00	Cafeteria	Allowance
Saturday	$57.50	CostCo	Groceries
	$20.00	Cash	Allowance
	$130.00	Target	House

Yes, I bought jeans yesterday. No, it’s not on this list. That’s because before we ended up going to Penny’s (turns out the Levi’s store doesn’t carry jeans for actual fat people), we swing by a place called BuyBacks and with some of the MIL’s DVDs that Half Price Books didn’t take. Well, they took a little over half of what we had left, and explained why they didn’t take the rest, and paid us $50 for it. I hve to say- for DVDs, this is where I’m going in the future to sell. They took maybe 20% of what we sold to Half Price Books and paid us the same amount.

Anyway, that $50 cash then bought me two new pairs of jeans.

At Target we got some more bins (then proceeded to empty a number of our old ones today), a portable wardrobe, and some space bags. The wardrobe is up in the basement and full of C’s rarely worn clothes- like his suits and business casual wear. The space bags are filled with extra pillows and quilts.

On Saturday, we also got the new bookcase I’d bought a few weeks ago put together, and it’s pretty much filled with books already. We still have at least one more box and one more bin of books we’re keeping to find room for. (Of course, that could be on the bookshelf in the baby’s room that we emptied- once we find a place for it.) We do also have another bin and box of books to take to Half Price Books.

I live an exciting life, don’t I.

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

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

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 $30 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: $22.01 (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

I’ve spent most of this week feeling somewhat better than last week, but not 100%. I had a cold that made me feel pretty crappy on Monday and Tuesday, but otherwise I felt okay. We went to the dog park on Wednesday and Saturday. I mowed the lawn on Friday and Saturday. And there’s been a lot of up and down stairs these last two days as we’ve worked on getting things a little more organized.

I don’t know how healthy it was, but C tried two new chicken recipes this week- chicken adobo and peanut mint curry. Both were good, the second was definitely the best.

And for the record, apple mint steeped overnight in apple juice is absolutely delicious.