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A good news day

January 16th, 2014 at 02:29 am

First of all, this is my second day since dental surgery with no painkillers! Now I need to find my resolve and start working out again. Dieting will have to wait until after Thursday -- I still need to have a midnight snack to take my antibiotics tonight and tomorrow.

Then, our first paychecks of 2014 hit, and it turns out I had miscalculated our take-home pay -- we're getting $95 more per month than I thought!

Since groceries have been such a pain point lately, and this would be a painless time to infuse that budget with more money, I've decided to add $15 per week. That leaves $35 (or $20 in the months there are 5 Saturdays) that I'm putting into surplus to hopefully go toward our goals.

I also transferred $3000 into short-term savings to go toward our bathroom renovation. Now we only need $1000 more and we can get started. We'll have that easily in February and can start pricing and planning for a springtime project.

When I got home, I found out that AS will get to go to London in April for work! This is great because it ups her visibility in England and raises her chances of someday finding a job there.

Oh, and I forgot about this (probably because I take everything NT's job tells him with a grain of salt) but apparently they're planning to give him a raise this year! They should, because he pretty much works 50-hour weeks now. We'll see if they follow through.

I was thinking about next year a bit, and I realized that we should see a decent raise in take-home pay/surplus money. First of all, we probably won't have to put $5000 into flex spending. Then, AA will be starting kindergarten the fall of 2015, believe it or not, so daycare costs will be cut in half. NT won't be in school anymore and we won't have any student loan debts. Of course, all of these things are pre-tax or we get tax credits for them, so we won't be taking home the full amount. But we should still see a nice increase.

All in all, a pretty good day!

3 Responses to “A good news day”

  1. rob62521 Says:
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    Glad you are off the pain killers and yay on more paycheck! Sounds like a lot of things fell into place.

  2. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    Nice miscalculation. Smile

  3. Buendia Says:
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    That is great news!

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