Day	Amount	Place	Category
Monday	$52.00	CostCo	Groceries
Tuesday	$212.50	Vet	Pets
	$30.50	Half Price Books	Allowance
Wednesday	$13.00	Papa Murphys	Groceries
Saturday	$174.75	CostCo	Groceries
	$154.00	Concert Tickets	Allowance
Sunday	$4.00	Starbucks	Allowance
	$34.00	Gas	Car

With the exception of the concert tickets, spending this week was really reasonable. Next week’s will be out of whack because of getting the car serviced, but for now, things look good. For those of you who like to know what concerts we’re going to see Afghan Whigs in November (they are one of C’s all-time favorite bands, and they just got back together this year), and two days before my birthday (and the end of the world) in December, we’ll be seeing Pentatonix– the last winner of the Sing Off. I love a capella singing.

J got back from his Mediterranean cruise last Sunday night, so it’s been nice having everyone home again. It has been a fairly quiet week, our first where we didn’t really have anything we had to get done, and that’s been nice.

Also in happiness making, my cherry tomato plant is starting to bear fruit. I had one come ripe earlier this week and I ate it right off the vine. I’ve got enough coming in now to cover some salads this week. Plus, my bell pepper plant has peppers, and we need to pick some apples off the apple trees. Yay for home grown produce!

 

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

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

THIS IS LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AWAY!! I am so excited.

Conference attendance paid for. Tickets paid for. The only things left are food, hotel, and transportation. 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 did not make Epsilon class. My Alexa ranking had gone too high. I think there will be one more class this year, so we’ll see if I can get my numbers back down to under 200k. I need to join the teams again, as that helps tremendously. And now that we’re done with all the house stuff for the adoption, I should have more time to participate.

Current ranking: 289,099

5)      Make money from my blogs.

AdSense earnings: $28.19 at the end of July, with $0.47 made so far this month. (They won’t send me any money until I hit $100.)

6)      Be healthier

I am still doing well on the diet and exercise. I got in two walks a day most days at work. I missed one Tuesday because of the Vet visit for Junebug, and then didn’t take the second one on Friday because I left the office early. But I did mow the entire yard this weekend, which helps make up for that.

We went to the dog park a few times, and Larry and I took one really nice 25 minute walk.