Today I was able to put $1000 into the vacation fund, so that means I've saved $1740, surpassing my goal of $1700 for this month! As long as we don't have any more bad job news for the next month, I should fully fund the vacation in June. I'm aiming for $3000, but if we do have to scale back, I know we'll still have a good time.
If anyone's been wondering what happened to 365 Days of Dinner, don't worry--I've been taking pictures every night, but I haven't felt like getting them all uploaded here and writing about them, and the more that build up the more I avoid it. LOL! But I have a surprise vacation day tomorrow (yay!), so I'll probably get them all uploaded (or at least get a start and upload a week or so).
I'm considering going on a cleansing diet for a week or two, if my chronic ailment doesn't go away this weekend--it felt like it was getting better for a few days but then it felt a little worse today. I'm thinking going extra-healthy on my food couldn't be a bad thing, so I may try that in addition to my current treatments if it doesn't get better soon. I don't want to drag AS and NT into what will be a pretty boring diet, so we may end up having TWO photos for each night of dinner. Even more incentive to get caught up before then, so I don't get buried in photos!
Another goal was met, though I deserve no credit for it; we bought a variable-speed shower head and NT installed it. It works great and I highly recommend it; it just lets you lower the water pressure while you're lathering up, and then you turn it back to full strength to rinse. We still need to fix the leaky faucet and the thing that turns it on, but that may take more know-how than NT has, so we'll see. These aren't really money-saving for me as our utilities are part of the condo association dues, but our main goal is being more environmentally friendly.
Reached May savings goal!
May 21st, 2009 at 05:59 pm
May 21st, 2009 at 06:31 pm 1242930692
I hope you feel better very soon.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 04:58 am 1242968316
We got those shower heads here too. Our water company gives them away for free (some gov't incentive to lower our water usage, we have been in drought for few years now), we just had to take our old shower heads in exchange for those new ones.
Can't wait to see the pictures.