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Crazed finances

December 9th, 2009 at 04:50 pm

My head is spinning with all the financial stuff I'm trying to keep track of right now! We still have (I think) a pending transaction from the Thanksgiving trip, plus waiting on my dad's check to fund that trip, plus waiting for CC bill to pay off rental car and some presents to me that I told AS & NT to charge to that card, plus numerous Xmas gift pending transactions, plus waiting to be told who to invoice for some freelance work I did that will be paying for our holiday party, plus keeping track of line items for Xmas shopping for each of us (and figuring out which Paypal & Amazon transactions come out of which spending category), plus needing to deposit several checks and some cash for the laptop fund. Whew! I'm not used to juggling so much all at once in our checking account, but so far I think I'm doing OK.

The good news is, we finally raised the money to pay sales tax on the laptop we'd saved up for. AS got paid for a couple of sewing jobs that have straggled in from her business, my parents sent us $20 for our anniversary, and NT did a Pinecone survey for $3. So NT ordered an iMac Pro last night, and it should come before Xmas. Woo hoo! Our current laptop is draggy and touchy, dropping the wireless connection every couple of minutes, flickering wildly if the screen has been idle for a minute, trying to eat CDs when we put them in to load to our iPods. Still, we hope to sell it for parts at least and be able to put that money toward something. We have an equally useless iMac with a busted CD drive that we hope to clear of its files and sell for parts as well. We'll probably put that money toward paying off my dad, because the sooner we pay him off, the sooner we can start saving for paying off the stove we bought on 12-months-no-interest from Sears, and for our meet-the-baby trips to Va. and UK next year!

Also, the aforementioned freelance work: Someone at my job, totally unrelated to the other woman who recently sent me some freelance proofing, asked me to help her with a side job she was doing. I've already worked 5 hours on it, so at least $200 coming, and I might get one more little chunk of proofreading before the project is done! We're going to put that money toward our holiday party and to help offset the cost of gifts for our families. (We probably could have covered it with our spending money over a couple weeks, but this way we won't be flat broke all month.) We've got most of our gifts ordered (except for NT's parents & sister & grandma, but we're just going to order restaurant GCs online for them). I still want to send out cards to my siblings; I don't get around to this most years, but since I had such a good time with them at Thanksgiving I feel motivated. I was hoping to get pics from NT's company holiday party to include, since they'd be festive, but I haven't seen anything yet. Well, we have our photographer friend coming Thursday, so he'll take some much more professional shots anyway and we can send those.

Yep, this has got to be the busiest December ever! We had to sit down last night and make a prep list for our party Saturday, because we have haircuts and a prenatal class that day, so we want all of our food and drinks sorted before then. We picked foods that can be made the day before, so all we have to do when we get home from haircuts is arrange them prettily.

5 Responses to “Crazed finances”

  1. DeniseNTexas Says:
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    Way to go on keeping up with that financial stuff! Sounds like a very busy month for yall. Smile

  2. frugaltexan75 Says:
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    You do have a lot of financial balls to keep straight. Smile

  3. miclason Says:
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    My head spins just READING about it!!!

  4. momcents Says:
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    Jumping in off topic (kind of) after reading your post. Since you've got a photographer friend, have them take a pregnant belly shot with your family's hands on touching. (Close up of just belly and hands) I was too modest to do it at Sears and really regret not having one. I thought it would be a great way to let the baby know how much they were loved before they got here!

  5. ceejay74 Says:
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    Great idea! If not this round, we can take another series after I get even bigger (though preferably, for me, before my belly button becomes an outie--the idea of that freaks me out a little for some reason Smile).

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