Week in Review

artwork by my daughter

I can't wait for next week to start.  This week has been crazy and depressing.  Too much money was spent, and too little was accomplished.  I only ran 10 miles this week since it was raining a lot.  I decided that I needed to step up my game on looking for a treadmill.  I found one at a used sports store, but they wanted $1150 for one.  It was a very nice model, but I really didn't want something to make payments.  I looked on Craigslist and found one listed for $150.  I'm not really good at bargaining and all the ones for less didn't look good, so I offed $140 and they took it.  It is 4 years old but has a nice thick belt for cushion and doesn't looked like it got used a lot.

Another sad thing that happened this week was I had the grill light a fire ball in my face.  It singed my eye brows, some of my head hair, and my eyelashes.  It was super scary.  I have had my grill for years and was thinking of getting a new one, but I don't want to spend the money right now.  I'm thinking I will be looking more into George Foreman's really soon.  It's much cheaper than a new grill.

As for my list of things I need to work on, they all still need some work.

Some things I want to keep working on:
flossing
hydrating my face and changing pillow cases to keep my face clean
drinking water
not spending money excessively
cleaning and organizing (need to keep up with following Noni's ebook)
I need to make a chore chart and motivate kids again


spending:
Sunday: $0
Monday: $0
Tuesday: $44.05
Wednesday: Costco- $109.55 (groceries: $54.56, personal care $54.99); Gas- $33.74; Walmart- $76.44 (tank top for daughters play: $3.68, dog food: $21.18, groceries $5.81, Monster High dolls for no good reason, for future presents for daughter $41.24, personal care: $4.53); McDonald's- $3.59
total: $223.32
Thursday: $7.80 for groceries at Target to use coupons I had (I got 2L coke and doz. eggs for free).
$5.16 for bread at bakery outlet ( 4 loves of bread and 2 packages of hamburger buns)
total: $12.96
Friday: $0
Saturday: $140 used treadmill
$37.09 vacuum bag and Kirby Zip Brush
total: $177.09
Grand Total for Week: $457.82


I defiantly need to work on my spending.  Tomorrow I will dig around the kitchen and see how many meals I can drum up without shopping, maybe I can do two weeks if I'm really good.  As for the Monster High dolls, they have been hard to find.  I bought 3 not really knowing which ones my daughter already has.  My thought was to give her one for completing all the hard work on the play.  I'm not sure if I want to keep the others for more occasions or if I will just return them.  I think I will wait a month and see where I'm at.

What are you working on?
How did your week go?
Is anyone even reading this besides me and my alter ego?