I'm enjoying my long weekend, but it will be a tiny paycheck next week since I'll be losing 1 of the 2.5 days I normally work, due to Memorial Day.
I did my May expense report a few days early and see I'm in the red by $222 due to a variety of atypical expenses: $108 for another year of my TracPhone, $200 for a more powerful yard blower, $212 for doc visits related to the tick bite and a dental cleaning, $200 for the cleanup of storm tree damage and $146 to replace the engine cover under my car.
On the plus side, I did make $423 selling perennials and a few other items online.
This kind of shortfall of income vs. expenses will likely continue into early fall; I don't like it as it's not the way I've usually managed my personal finances, but work should pick up in late fall into winter and I hope to see increased income as a result.
Random news:
1. I earned a $10 credit at the healthy pet food place on my latest purchase.
2. My 70-year-old cousin, through eating better and exercising, lost 30 pounds and is no longer using a cane! That's like reversing a disability! I told my dad and hoped I inspired him. Talked to him twice in the past few days.
3. The cousin who is bent on learning more about my maternal grandmother's Slovak roots hired a Slovak who was able to confirm, with documentation, that my maternal great-grandmother was from Hunkovce, Slovakia (the former Czechoslovakia)! Pretty exciting. That town is located in northeastern Slovakia, near the Polish border, and was near a major WWII battle between the Russians and the Germans.
I spent some time this morning cruising the streets of Hunkovce using Google maps, but it's a tiny village with not much to see except rather ugly concrete homes and chain link fences. There is a beautiful church there, though. (Amazing what you can do via the Internet!)
4. I bought some veggie seedlings at Lowes and planted 2 cherry tomato plants, 1 cucumber, and 1 eggplant in big pots. Herb-wise, I have parsley (for the butterflies), basil, peppermint and bronze fennel (for the butterflies).
I also have a bunch of potted annuals like cosmos coming up; I collected all the seed last fall, so it didn't cost me anything.
5. So my free, 3-mth BJs membership expires June 30. I will let that run, and now I got a postcard in the mail offering a $25 annual membership, so that's more than half off. I will do it! And I don't think I'll ever want to pay full membership again.
So in the end, I'll get 15 months worth of membership for $25, or $1.66 a month.
Their gas, at $2.99, IS the cheapest around here.
6. I made a batch of granola (usually lasts about 2 weeks).
7. Did a load of laundry.
8. Got some free range eggs at the farm over the hill from me. I could have gotten them free from my back neighbors, but I don't want to take advantage....next time.
9. Saw my dad for lunch.
Today's agenda:
1. Woman coming over in an hour to buy a mini organizer from Pottery Barn.
2. Think I'll hit WalMart for a few things.
3. Vacuum.
4. Plant my iris and daisy seeds.
5. Spray my 3 jade plants for powdery mildew.
6. Use the trimmer around the yard.
Long weekend goings on
May 27th, 2018 at 02:29 pm