Life is going pretty well overall.
I made an appointment with an allergy doctor for August 23 - the only caveat is that I have to stop all allergy meds for 5 days prior. Yikes. Hope I can survive that.
I got my refund of my security deposit from my apartment. They charged me for cleaning the carpet. Huh? It wasn't stained or worn more than normal? DH says that it's expected that you clean the carpets when leaving an apartment. Maybe just in NE? I never did that at any other place I lived, and always got my deposit back.
Oh well, I was prepared to not get any of my deposit back since these property managers have proven to be exceedingly picky ... so, getting back $117 of $415 is better than I hoped for.
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This afternoon I was walking in the park near our local zoo and got a bit lost. So I got out my GPS to get me back to my car. I stopped near a statue and was staring at my phone - when this young teen stopped near me and said, "Pokemon?"
I smiled at him and told him, "Sorry, no."
There were lots of people in the park with their nose to their phone ... assuming most were Pokemon hunting.
I'm glad the game is getting people out and about.
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DH seems to be adjusting to living with a budget so far. The real test will be next month - I've already done some projections, and unless he gets some really good tip money the next couple weeks, we're going to have to lessen the fun money categories. He probably won't like that too much.
I'm hoping I can get him to sit down with me as I allocate the money out, so he can see all the places the money has to go.
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We're having a quasi-date night tomorrow. Going to eat at a local Chinese buffet with the owner of the dog we dogsat for. Hoping he'll reimburse us for the medications ... but not holding my breath. ($150)
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Thursday night we went to Dollar Tree and picked up a bunch of frozen items - vegetarian stuff for me, and chicken for DH. Also, the fixing's for spaghetti. Which is what DH made for dinner. (We've agreed that we will take turns making dinner for each other on Sundays/Thursdays. His two nights he doesn't work at all.)
I'm going to probably make a cottage cheese loaf on Thursday night. Then next week will try out a new recipe.
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I still haven't used my Instapot. I'm not sure why really. Tomorrow though I plan on doing the water test, and then using it to cook a butternut squash and some sweet potatoes.
I am going to be volunteering at our VBS program M - W nights, so want to have something easy to fix for my dinners. (probably am going to make butternut black bean burgers and sweet potato burgers)
I also got some firm tofu, and am planning on frying some of it and baking some of it. Then cooking a cup or so of quinoa and brown rice for lunches. (along with a zucchini and yellow squash and onion - all on good sales.)
Will see what actually gets done tomorrow.
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Almost forgot - I had DHs and I's 3 car registrations/wheel taxes combined into the same month for renewal (August) For all 3, it was $392. That was a good bit less than I had estimated, so that was a bit of money back in the budget. Although DH wants to get a 4 Runner by November, so I need to have money set aside for that registration/wheel tax too. (Guessing $100 - 120.)
(The 4 Runner is for getting around delivering in winter, and also pulling the eventual boat ... He's funding both purchases by 1/3 of the inheritance check, plus 1/4 of whatever sales he makes via Craigslist, etc. We've agreed that 50% of sales go back into a "business operating fund" for purchasing more inventory, making repairs, shipping, etc. 25% goes to his car/boat/tv funds, and 25% goes to the general budget - i.e. debt payments for now.)
Updates
July 17th, 2016 at 02:46 am
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July 17th, 2016 at 05:12 pm 1468771962
CCF - I would look at it if I knew where it was.
Dido - We got it as a wedding gift. I'd been wanting one for a while. It's just been sitting on the kitchen counter for the last 7 weeks?? taunting me....
I am vegetarian with leanings towards vegan. I am a member of the vegan IP FB group - joined it to try to make myself inspired to actually use it. I just need to get past doing the water test and make my first dish ... then I bet I'll be off and running.
July 17th, 2016 at 07:42 pm 1468780922
I've tried so many ideas to get DH to understand 'where the money goes.' Most effective thus far is poster pad, typically used by teachers and trainers. I note net income upper right and list out-go names left & sums with a marker. I usually tack it on the back of the bathrm door or the front of the fridge...whatever I think will catch his attention.
Good luck!
July 17th, 2016 at 07:49 pm 1468781382
It was $190 cleaning fee
$90? carpet cleaning
then they charged for cleaning out the garbage disposal ... (which I couldn't get to because the sink strainer thingy got stuck)
and they charged for a new sink strainer ...
Picky.
I'm not sure why it took them so long to clean the place. I didn't leave it a mess by any means. The stove and the fridge really were the only things that I didn't do anything to. So those two things took nearly 6 hours??? ($35/hr)
So glad to be done with that place and with them.
July 18th, 2016 at 09:51 pm 1468875106