Day	Amount	Place	Category
Tuesday	$13.00	Safeway	Allowance
	$15.00	copay	medical
	$30.00	chinese food	Eating Out
	$90.00	gas	car
Wednesday	$15.00	copay	medical
	$4.00	trader joes	Groceries
Thursday	$7.00	Safeway	Groceries
Saturday	$22.00	Movie	Allowance
Sunday	$38.00	CostCo	Groceries
	$21.00	Red Robin	Eating Out

We spent money on numerous days this week, though not too much total.

We had friends over for jambalaya and games on Friday, which is part of why there were little grocery shopping trips during the week. On Saturday, we went and saw Dark Knight Rises. On Saturday, I spent the day craving a milkshake, so on Sunday, I made Charles take me out to get one. We also went to a friend’s house for tamales and board games, though we didn’t stay long enough to play anything as I’m not feeling great.

But the house is in great shape thanks to having guests, which makes me feel better about everything.

 

This is Sunday evening post #52, which means it has been one year since I started these posts. I like ending my weekend with a recap of what we’ve been doing, and I hope you enjoy it too.

 

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 $5.91 so far this month. No idea why the uptick, but I’ll take it.

6)      Be healthier

I walked once on Monday and Tuesday, and twice on Wednesday and Thursday. We went to the dog park on Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday.

One night (but I don’t remember which) we had light salads for dinner.