Day	Amount	Place	Category
Saturday	$6.00	McDonalds	Eating Out
	$200.00	family loan	misc
Sunday	$21.50	Safeway	Groceries
	$164.00	CostCo	Groceries
	$28.00	Office Depot	Home
	$12.50	Target	Home
	$4.50	Lowes	Home

We tried to spend money earlier in the week. We went out to dinner on Tuesday, but J ended up picking up the check for all of us. On Friday, he brought home pizza and a movie. Saturday morning, J’s parents, who were in town for the weekend, took us all out to breakfast.

So we managed not to spend any money until Saturday afternoon, when we grabbed a snack at McDonalds on our way down to Portland for my great aunt & uncle’s 50^th anniversary party.

Almost half of our spending came from giving my youngest cousin a “loan”. She got a new job, went to give two weeks’ notice at her current job, and was told she didn’t need to come back, so she’ll have two weeks with no paycheck, and she needs to buy some new work clothes, as she’s going from pumping gas (literally) to working in an office. She only asked for 4100. I gave her $200, that way she has a buffer. She swears she’ll pay it back out of her first paycheck. Whether she does or not isn’t something that either C or I are concerned about.

 

I want to mention that my post about professional societies earlier this week lead to someone from APICS sending me an email with a little bit more information. It was very helpful and I am quite grateful that he took time out of his day to contact me.

 

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: $22.11 (They won’t send me any money until I hit $100.) Apparently, though, I’ve already earned $5.84 so far this month. No idea why the uptick, but I’ll take it.

6)      Be healthier

I walked twice on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On Thursday, I walked once, and experienced “Thursday the 12^th”, ie the day before Friday the 13^th. That morning I grabbed my walking shoes, but it turns out I didn’t grab an actual pair of shoes. Instead I grabbed one shoe each from my two pairs of tennis shoes. And to make it even better, I grabbed both left shoes. I also forgot my badge that morning. So, I walked once and then came home early. On Friday, I worked from home, so instead of walking on my breaks, I cuddled doggies.

We went to the dog park 4 times this week, despite the mugginess.