Day	Amount	Place	Category
Thursday	$95.25	Target	House/Medical
Friday	$24.00	Office Depot	House
	$30.00	Consumer Reports	House
Saturday	$35.75	Red Robin	Eating Out
Sunday	$32.25	Safeway	Groceries
	$180.00	CostCo	Groceries

Again, not a lot of spending this week. We did spend money on filing supplies (yay for an organized filing cabinet) and Consumer Reports so that we could look at cribs. We have to have one in the house for the home inspection. It is annoying that many places (target and Babies R Us included) don’t actually carry the cribs in stock. Luckily we live fairly near a Burlington Coat Factory, and their Baby Depot does carry cribs in stock. We found the one we want, and we’ll be back in the next few weeks to buy it.

The house is so very, very close to being ready for the foster license inspection. It’s really just little things left. And, our social worker is on vacation for the next couple of weeks, so by the time she is back, we should be all set and ready to go.

We also need to get appointments to get our fingerprints taken so that the FBI can do our background checks. Once those two things are done, we’re pretty much done except for the waiting. I do need to put together a couple photo collages for social workers and birth mothers, so that they can learn a little about us for help making the right match.

We also discovered this weekend that it looks like we have hardwood floors under our awful, awful carpets. C and I actually both prefer good carpet over hardwoods, but we don’t have good carpet. We might, once the home inspection is done, at least pull up the carpet from the baby’s room and get the floor in there professionally finished.

 

 

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 July. (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

No idea where I am allowance wise. However, tickets to FinCon have already been purchased. I got my plane tickets this week, as prices dropped over $100 from last week, making it so that I was able to get them using credit card points and still have enough points left over for a $100 gift card.

I did pay $18 for the travel insurance. C still thinks I overpaid, especially since it isn’t likely we’ll have a baby by FinCon, but I decided I wanted to be prepared.

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 walked twice every weekday this week. We had a long dog park on Tuesday and went again on Thursday and Sunday.

I ate pretty healthy all week, too. Sadly, I forgot to take a picture of the amazing chicken in pepper sauce dish C made on Tuesday.