Day	Amount	Place	Category
Monday	$4.50	Cafeteria	Allowance
Tuesday	$150.00	Vet	Pets
	$15.00	Qdoba	Eating Out
	$7.00	Gas	Car
	$8.00	Car Wash	Car
	$9,700.00	New Car	Car
	$50.00	Old Spaghetti Factory	Eating Out
Wednesday	$38.00	Safeway	Groceries
Thursday	$5.25	Safeway	Groceries
Friday	$32.00	Ren Faire	Allowance
Saturday	$71.00	CostCo	Groceries
	$60.00	Cash	Allowance
Sunday	$43.00	Gas	Car

We start the first Sunday Evening Post of my second year of doing Sunday Evening Posts by spending every day this wekk and having a significant purchase- we bought our new to us car.

In addition to doing that on Tuesday, we took June in for a 2^nd opinion regarding her swollen saliva glands, since it’s an issue our normal vet has very little experience with. It looks like there will be more Junebug spending coming up at the end of August, as we think we’re going to have the glands removed since one of them has ruptured and is leaking into her chin. Right now, she’s fine- it doesn’t bother her, but it could become infected or abscess. We will most likely take her to the hospital at the veterinary school on the other side of the state, as most places have very little experience with this type of surgery. And this is why we have a pet fund on top of our emergency fund.

To go along with all this “fun”, I am sick. I’m feeling better today, but I left work early on Wednesday and didn’t go in on Thursday. Thursday night, C started coming down with the cold, and so he’s been pretty miserable this weekend.

Really, the highlight of the weekend has been the Olympics and the ability to watch things online. We watched fencing and archery today, as well as some women’s gymnastics. In two weeks, I’ll be very happy because I will hopefully get to watch rhythmic gymnastics, which they don’t show much of on TV, but I LOVE. (I had one of those ribbons as a kid.)

I also took advantage of a groupon on Friday and got us tickets for two different weekends to the Renaissance Faire for only $32. It’s a savings of $16.

 

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 $6.03 so far this month. No idea why the uptick, but I’ll take it.

6)      Be healthier

I walked twice on Monday and once on Wednesday. Otherwise, because I was busy or feeling like crap, there was no walking. We went to the dog park on Wednesday and Saturday, but that was it, again because at least one of us has been feeling like crud.

However, feeling like crud means I’ve not been eating a whole lot. However. On Thursday, C made a wonderful chicken dish with yogurt and this Indian spice that one of my coworkers brought me from India. We will definitely be making it again.