I've cheered up a good deal from my recent gloominess about yucky expenses: UK leasing costs, new fridge, laptop repair. I still have to figure out where the UK money is going to come from (it will come from my extra debt repay if I can't find another way, and that's OKAY), but we've got a while (maybe 6 months) to figure that out. But we bought a fridge last night and it was about $150 less than I was afraid of, even with a three-year service contract.

Also, NT used his irresistable British accent on the computer folks and explained they'd fixed the hard drive less than a year ago--and they agreed to do it free, with only a $50 fee for data recovery. We'll also buy an external hard drive for $100, but $150 total is much better than the $450-$550 we initially thought it would be!

So I allotted the rest of the surplus to our July extra debt repay. If AS ends up switching jobs I may have to drop that plan, but it feels good knowing exactly where it will go if we don't need it.

NT got quite a bit of OT pay in his check today: $265! I put that immediately into travel savings. Our trip to England made us realize how important traveling is to all of us, so I'm making sure we save up for a fall vacation.

Our grocery/household budget has finished healing itself (mostly because we took a 10-day break from cooking while overseas), so we treated ourselves to 3 new frying pans ($15 at Target). We haven't had the right sizes for several cooking projects, so this will make cooking much more pleasant. We still have $184 in grocery money to last us through the 31st, so we'll be able to do a big grocery restock this weekend and still be within budget!

And Monday/Tuesday should be exciting, as many payments will hit and I'll be able to report several strides toward my June goal!

Now if my stimulus check is waiting in the mail, it'll be the perfect end to a good couple of money days.