Day	Amount	Place	Category
Monday	$40.00	Cash	Allowance
Tuesday	$40.00	Urgent Care/RX	Medical
	$11.00	Pizza	Groceries
Wednesday	$45.00	C’s Birthday	Eating Out
Thursday	$15.00	PT	Medical
Friday	$50.00	Gas	Car
Saturday	$123.00	CostCo	Groceries
	$42.00	Safeway	Groceries
Sunday	$15.00	Safeway	Groceries
	$50.00	Gas	Car

Spent every day this week, partly because of my shoulder injury and C’s birthday.

We filled both cars up this weekend. Also, Safeway is having a buy 2 get 3 free sale on Coke, so I stopped by a second Safeway on Sunday morning to stock up. Still, the total wasn’t bad, just over $400.

On Friday, we also signed up to pay more for cable again. In this case it’s because we have to have a home phone for the adoption home study, so we had to add a service. I’m actually really bummed to be paying over $100/month again, even though J has decided to up his monthly rent to help cover some of the cost.

 

We are half way through 2012. I’m revising some of my goals because life took some turns I wasn’t quite planning on when I came up with the goals.

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)      Pay All Adoption Expenses in Cash & Still Pay for C’s College Out of Pocket

We’re doing good here. This was helped tremendously by getting 3x as much in life insurance from the MIL than expected. Our savings is still growing, and we’re in really good shape

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

Conference attendance paid for. Tickets paid for. The only things left are food and the hotel. I probably won’t have enough in allowance to cover all of it, but it won’t be far off, and the biggest expenses are already taken care of.

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 a day Mon, Tues, and Thurs. I left early on Wed and Fri, so only walked once each day. We went to the dog park Wed, Sat, and Sun.

I ate too much at Mongolian Grill for C’s birthday. We had lasagna and apple caramel cheesecake for dinner tonight.

C and I have talked about trying to do better on making our meals healthy and portioning. I also think there’s a good chance I’ll be buying a membership to the local Y, and I’ll work on trying to get in better shape.

And, of course, I know have exercises for my shoulder. PT thinks it’s the bicep tendon because the anti-inflammatories work so well. But I really need to be able to use my shoulder without pain.