Tuesday, Wednesday - Happy Days!

Tuesday was pretty laid back. $3.06 for coffee & donuts with the bonus "You've lost weight haven't you?" compliment from the cashier. I don't know if it's because she really knows me or notices that I have but I think she's trying a self improvement course or something. I overheard say the samething to someone else a couple of weeks ago. I suppose it's the best way to bring the donut lovers back in the door... one more donut won't hurt right?

Was a little bit more loose with the purse strings today... $9.69

Had to stop by the Dollar Store to pick up some tomato sauce & dish soap to for take two of the dog wash. Can't believe that the Blonde one got sprayed by a skunk. Stupid me... Next time I get drunk must remember to close gate. Picked up some Cheetos & Reeses Dark Peanut Butter cups while I was there too because I felt comfortable enough to eat crap food because I've lost weight. Stopped over at Murray's too to get a new break light for the Ranger. I'll try to get that in... sometime... soon...

September 23, 2009

Tuesday's child...

In total dropped $56.71 yesterday.
Mostly necessary... aww jeez who the hell am I kidding!

$4.19 for some bike crap stuff that I'll probably never use.. or if I do I'll never use it quite right.
$20 for Saturdays hangover
$24.05 - Home Depot for Oil Based Primer for the Garage Project From Hell. I keep wondering if I'll ever finish this. If I'll ever get a price. If.. If.. If..

I keep waiting for men to come through to help me out but that never seems to work out the way I think it should. I know I should be all, I Am Woman Hear Me Roar, but I'm also slightly anal retentive and able to pick apart any flaw I see in any work I do so I want things done right - not half ass. Grrrrr... should learn to channel my sexual tension into mastering power tools. That's what men do, right?

September 22, 2009

Ungodly Amounts

Even though I stayed in, I returned a few impulse purchases, I pulled dinner out of the depths of my freezer instead of ordering something up... despite of all that I'm pretty sure I dug myself into a more of a debt hole. Bleech.

Spent most of Sunday stewing in my hangover. Still haven't figured out if it was an vodka induced hangover or an exercise hangover from the 30 mile bike ride. I want to say that I'm in shape, I want to believe it I deeply do but I'm just not. I'm a huge battered, bloody, bruised wreak.

So it's Monday and I'll be renewing my "I'm Going To Be Frugal" mantra. Actually I'll have to wait until tomorrow to start it up again because I need to stop by the bike store for some bike tire things, getting cash to payback El Douche Bag for the bar tab and some oil based primer for the garage.

So I started to search out ways to be Frugal - for my frugal new beginning... tomorrow... I swear - and I found this, eh-hem, interesting article about 51 Unusual Money-Saving Tips from WiseBread. The author prefaces it by saying that some are just tongue in cheek and slightly ridiculous but I guess as a single woman I immediately got a little freaked out by #7 Ladies, Order LARGE meals on dates. Not sure if it would be really worth it though. Like some guy would want to take you out again if the only interest you had in him was filling up your fridge. But I guess I've dated for worse reasons and maybe if I actually dated quality I would be able to get good take out because there's not a real easy way to order huge on the value meal.

Whatever... realize I'm not making sense. I blame the alcohol. Not from two days ago but the drinks I've been obsessing about having since after I finished lunch.

September 22, 2009

Sunday Morning Coming Down...

I guess I never realized how much money I run through on a typical day until I started writing it down...

Total spent Sunday: $93.22

Ok... and it starts when I bought a jar a really f-in good pickles for $8 at the Clawson Farmers Market. I think I had one or two. Whatever.
Paid back $30 that I borrowed from the previous night of drinking.
Bought b-fast for Kate because she was nice enough to buy pizza at the bar during the previous night of drinking, $20 with tip.
$19.66 at Rite Aid for vodka, tonic, and chips just a typical recovery meal from a previous nights of drinking.
$6.22 Dollar General for the Sunday newspaper (STUFFED with coupons), a bottle of Comet and a cheesy dog pen.
Spent an hour updating my checking account. Looking through the sale papers, coupons, blah, blah, blah.
Quick trip up to CVS got $16.75 worth of stuff for $5.84, plus $1 ECB back.
Wrapped up the night by splurging on a medium Wild Pumpkin coffee and water at Caribou ($3.93). Chilling out and an early fall night with some good random conversation and listening to some guitar playing.

Plenty of lessons learned this weekend. Biggest of which... seems that vodka is not only killing my liver but it's totally destroying my bank account.

September 14, 2009

Wondering...

... Adding up all the money spent tonight... Wondering if it was worth it... Sometimes I just miss the fantasy I had... Sometimes I miss that little blur of happy.


September 12, 2009

How does it go again?

Total spent yesterday $112.34
Picked my check up and went straight to the bank after work yesterday. Payday used to mean a one way ticket to the bar and and hangover... these days it's beginning to mean overpriced carryout.
$16.93 at Panera
I've been in a huge feeding frenzy lately. Like all of a sudden my body realized I've been fitting into my clothes without those nasty red dig-in stripes. My size 6's are in the wardrobe rotation and I'm loving it! But alas things change and this week I've put on a whole 3 pounds. Boo! So I bought a Asigo Roast Beef Sandwich, a bowl of Cream of Chicken & Wild Rice and a bag o cookies. I was thinking maybe a half dozen of Krispy Kreme but the cookies won out.
I decided that I wanted a drink or eight so stopped off at Palace and bagged up $16.98 worth of vodka, tonic & Sparks.
I spent the rest of the night cleaning, paying bills, sipping vodka tonics, stirring up the ulcer chewing Tums to kill the ache in my tummy. The Tums seems to slowed down the buzz because I was drunk enough to buy two pairs of shoes (but I did get $41.00 in discounts AND free shipping) but not drunk enough to pass out.
Stated going over the numbers for the re-fi but got a little distracted. Can't seem to hold thought for more then two minutes. Although I couldn't seem to shake the thought of getting a cigarette all night. Sweet sweet Camel Light. It's awful but I'm focused on that then figuring out how to get out of debt or Michigan. It's been taking me so long to finish this post and I can't even figure out what the hell it was I was writing about in the first place... figures!

September 11, 2009