Day	Amount	Place	Category
Tuesday	$14.50	safeway	Groceries
Wednesday	$27.25	teriyaki	Eating Out
Thursday	$8.25	safeway	Groceries
Friday	$200.00	APICS	allowance
	$80.25	Frys	allowance
	$19.50	terrible beauty	Eating Out
Saturday	$60.75	costco	Groceries
sunday	$8.50	parking	car
	$12.00	ice cream	Eating Out
	$27.25	safeway	Groceries

Crazy at work led to a pretty relaxed weekend. On Friday, I finally paid the membership fee to join APICS, one of the professional societies for Operations managers. After work, we went to Frys for a $3.50 part for J. We spent over $80 ourselves, including on my new keyboard, a backrest for my computer chair, and a new video game for C and I to play together. Later that night, we went to a local pub to listen to our favorite local band play.

I had thought we might be able to do another Saturday of going nowhere, but the dogs really needed a visit to a dog park, so we did that and then decided to hit CostCo.

Today, I went downtown for a Nia jam with a good friend and then we got ice cream after.

 

 

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

3)      Attend FinCon12. Pay for the trip with money from allowance/side projects saved/earned BEFORE the conference starts. Goal: $600

FinCon was awesome. Not all of the money came from allowance/side projects, but it was still easily affordable, so I’m calling this a win.

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: 273,774

Back up a little bit.

5)      Make money from my blogs.

AdSense earnings: $28.81 at the end of August, with $1.03 made so far this month. (They won’t send me any money until I hit $100.)

One of the things that FinCon really brought home for me is that I’m not actually in this for the money. For now, I’m leaving the AdSense blocks up, but they’re getting moved further down the page. I’ll keep tracking, but making money isn’t why I blog.

6)      Be healthier

I think I walked twice every day this week, but I honestly can’t remember. I did have two days where I was seriously under my calorie target and one where I was over. The Nia jam today was 80 minutes of continuous movement. It was fun but tiring.