week of 3/24 Goals

work 40 hours
run twice
get all billing done

3/25
7 hours subbing
1.5 hours paperwork/helping husband fix truck
(dinner, kitchen)

3/26
7 hours of subbing
1.5 hours of paperwork
(dinner, kitchen)

3/27
7 hours of subbing
(dinner, kitchen)

3/28
4.5 hours paperwork/picking up truck
(1hr deep cleaning)
(dinner, kitchen)

3/30
1.5 hours paperwork

Total: 30 hours


did not run, had a cold and felt very tired most of the week. 

3 month budget summary

three month budget summary as of 3/24
totals
Food/cleaning supplies Total: 439+406+620+32+5= 1502
my personal fund )309 +367+115= 791
  Husbands personal Fund:147 + 832.50-426 for tools since he saved us aa lot of money by using it to fix commerical mower+1170-1070 for tool box since he got the money from client settlement+ 925 two generators (he is fixing and selling for profit) = 1578.50
my  Car repair: 229
Gas:114+ 171+75= 374
computer repair 108
hair cuts: 40
adidas pants: $68- 6 pairs- to be determined what expense category they are going in.
dollar store/misc: 11+ 13 +9+13= 46
liquor extra 13
house renovations/repairs 150-20 (sold parent old door that didin't fit) = 130+333+135= 598
GIFTS: 228
farm 10
Dog: (dog food and battery for colar): 68
husbands weekend trip gas and tolls to visit cousin: 85
fireplace gas: 7
tool: 20 counting as business expense but i thought it was unnecessary since husband already has one at shop but insisted needed one at home too to work on the equipment
also spent 18 dollars on pack of 2 car washed which are a business expense since his truck was full of dirt and salt from plowing
medicine/prescriptions 12
shower curtain 2
tampons 4
present for craigs grandpa 4
 prescriptions: 8

The Asian Grocery store and Traders Joes

I went to the Asian grocery store for the first time today- the environment was pretty poor- it smelt like smoke and was freezing (the cashiers were all wearing their winter jackets)- however they had much better prices on a bunch of stuff then going to the asian section of the regular supermarket plus i had a much easier time finder the spices i was looking for. I got a lot of asian noodles, coconut oil, seseme oil, chile oil, some frozen asian food- vegetable dumplings, vegetable rools and some other stuff to try, as well as a bunch of spices and coconut milk. I spent 40 dollars. Then I went to traders Joes for the first time today as well, the environment of the store was much cleaner and nicer. I was impressed with their food and many things were good priced although some stuff was over priced.  I got soy cheese (pretty good tasting), tofu italian sausage (not very good), sprouted bread 2 loaves, some other types of tofu meat, coconut milk, pineapple tidbits frozon 2 bags, mango chunks frozen, peach salsa, 2 bags of chips one was flax seed and black bean and the other was something similar, chickpeas 3 cans, some more spices, and some other stuff and spent 48 dollars.

Meal plan

schezwan  noodles with vegetables
chickpea curry- already made this- it was alright not a bag fan of the beans but now we have leftovers
grilled cheese and vegetables and avocado sandwhich
spanich salad with gorgonzo cheese
asian stir fry with noodles cooked in coconut oil
pasta and vegetables with mango tomato sauce


Frozon Foods
dumplings
vegetable rolls
plus a couple of other frozon asian things to try

plus the husband has frozen pizza and ice cream cones he insisted on getting 



Breakfast
omelets
peanut butter and banana on sprouted bread

snacks
apple and carmel
chips and peach salsa
dark chocolate
pineapple and coconut milk smoothie
sweet potato chips  

Eating Healthy

I am trying to change our diet to be primary plant based, I already don't eat meat- the husband does but mostly only when we eat out since I don't buy it and I do almost all the grocery shopping, I am trying to reduce dairy- drink coconut or almond milk, although I am not giving up all dairy since I am a huge fan of cheese, reduce the amount of white flour products we use. For the past couple of weeks I have being going to Aldi's which has produce for super cheap and I stock up and I have been cooking a ton of vegetables. I am going to check out Traders Joe's and the asian grocery store to try to get some healthier/unique stuff to try cooking with. I changed to only using real butter seveal months or longer ago because I heard the lower fat fake butters/margarine are full of chemicals. I also will be looking for coconut oil to cook with which has been shown to be awesome for you. I am trying to dramatically reduce our processed food intake. However, I will not be completely cutting anything out or making it off limits because I feel if I do that it will cause me to never stick with it.

I am trying to focus on a lot of anti-cancer foods. In the past couple of months I have been also focusing on adding garlic to a lot of my cooking due to its health benefits.

I made up this recipe today which came out great:

1. green cabbage
2. onions
3. bella mushrooms
4. mango
5. pears
6. sweet potato 
 dice and saute and cook in butter for about 1/2 hour

add diced canned tomatoes, cream, about a tablespoon or two of sugar and a little salt and cook for another 5-10 minutes.


Next time I am going try replacing the cream with something a little healthier and hopefully vegan. But overall I thought this tasted awesome and was a ton of veggies and fruits and no carbs.

Vacation spending

Cruise tickets 615
Gratuity 95
Airline tickets 810
Shuttle 105
Airport food 22
Airport gratuity  5
Internet 95
Excursion 140
Drink water 4.50
Airport food 7

1898.50 minus the Internet being business expense 1803


Gambling money made 222
Spa 160
Husband achohol 22
Me achohol 15
Bottled liquor 52
Handbags 122
Shot glass 4
Hot sauce 4
Jet skiing 60


Husbands personal fund spa, shot glasses, liquor, jets king minus gambling winnings 76-15= 59
liquor extra 13
My personal money  137
Gift hot sauce 4

Blah Mood

I am in such a blah mood today, got only about two hours of paperwork/cleaning done all day. I feel so lazy and in a crappy mood. Not sure why. I have been sitting on the computer for hours today reading blogs, etc. Hopefully tomorrow will be a more productive day.

Goals for week of 3/10

I updated on last weeks goal page and suceeded at about half of them. I do find putting the goals there keeps me more motivated to do them so I will keep doing what is working.

This week
 Run 3x 3 miles

3/11- ran/walked with a friend for 49 minutes prob about 30 minutes of running and 19 minutes of walking- going guess about 4 miles total
3/12- ran/walked with the dog in the pouring rain took me like 38 minutes to go my almost 3 mile route because I was not feeling the excercising today.
3/13- ran for a little over 20 minutes with friend then walked for 25 minutes- estimated  milage 3.5 miles


Get whole house looking cleaning instead of deep cleaning this week I am going to focus on having a clean looking house by the weekend which should only take about an hour of two of generally straightening up, sweeping floor, steam mopping, putting away some clutter etc.

-swept and steamed the kitchen and downstairs bath
-cleaned the upstairs bathroom
-cleaned up the kitchen counters


Pluck my eyebrows (I hate doing this!)
tried waxing my eyebrows with a wax kit I got for free (and made money on) with coupons and rite aid up rewards. It worked okay, but I prob should do some more plucking to clean them up more.

Have all laundry done and put away by weekend


Have bills sent out and office clean
- bills sent out is done
- office is clean! 

JCPenny Clothing Deals

I got an e-mail with  coupons to JCPenny 10 off 25 dollars, so of course I had to go with all the good deals I get there since they changed their pricing strategy to just lower prices, however since people are not responding to that very well they sometimes issue coupons now which means even better deals for me. So today I found on clearance:

Nike pants for husband (in his size tall) $17
5 pairs of underwear $3x5=15
2 white long sleeve shirts $3x2= 6
white tank top $4 (not on clearance)
workout capris $12

then was able to use 2 $10 off coupons  so paid 35 dollars for everything.

Feb Spending Summary

budget
Total food:406
Total Gas: 128
Gifts: 124
Farm: 10
Husbands Personal Fund: flowers and movie tickets plus 22 + + 100 upgrade to computer monitor +25 bar top + 8.50 movie + 426 tools + roller skating 7 + 15 computer game points +230 extra for new welder (husbands personal fund): 832.50
My personal fund: 7 clothes plus 129 from furniture + 100 bar stools+66 home decorating stuff from target +8 stockings + 5 dollar paint + 4 painters tape +10  roller skating + made 8 on craigslist selling clothes +20 dollar star for outside house= 340
House projects:333
Dog: (dog food and battery for colar): 46
husbands weekend trip gas and tolls to visit cousin: 85
fireplace gas: 7

menu plan

roasted vegetable and mozz sandwich

vegetable tomatoe creme pasta

avocodo, vegetables and chedder cheese on biscuits

spicy taco caseroal

quesidillas

pizza with ricottia and artchockes

Goals for this week

I ran 5 times last week so surpassed that goal, however failed at my cleaning goal so for this week which is shown on last weeks goal post :

3/3- 3/9

Run 3 miles 3x
3/5- 3 miles in 28 mins felt awesome and pushed myself- dog had trouble keeping up
3/6 2.4 miles felt pretty good- didn't time myself ran to farm
3/8- shoveling for about 7-8 hours (we were out for a total of about 13 hours- but some with driving from place to place) 
3/9- 3 miles in about 29 minutes

Almost reached goal except for the one shorter run and the 3 mile loop is closer to 2.9 miles after measured it.

deep clean/organize for a total of 1 hour

3/6- spent about an hour folding laundry, clearing clutter from bedroom, sweeping, steam mopping, washing down surfaces, washing the sheets and duvets and folding laundry- counting it as 15 mins of deep cleaning  

Didn't suceed at this.

Get all bills sent out and office clean by end of weekend

Got bills done but not all sent out and office is not clean.

Clean out at least 1/2 of car
Cleaned out, vacummed, and used leather cleaner on all of car except the trunk!

Clean out bookbag
Failed at this!

JCPENNY clearance finds

I got 2 white long sleeve shirts for 3 dollars each and a pink sportsbra for 5 dollars today. I have heard a lot of complaints about Jcpenny's new pricing strategy but I love it- I find really good deals there every once in awhile.

march spending

clothes (2 shirts and sports bra 11)
pizza 9
bird feeder food and feeder was free 7
dog food: 22
discount grocery 66
target dishwasher soap 6
target curtain 6
target scale 12
lunch 3
ice cream 6
preg test 9 
pizza 25
my car repair: 229 (caliber replaced, roter turned and wheels balanced)
home repairs: $5 repairs
groceries 29 dollars
coffee 1.60
computer repair 108
dollar store 4 (cleaning supplies)
chinese 35 (after plowing meal)
subway 5 (husband)
convenience store- rolls and strawberry milk/husband hamburger: 5
gas 54
pizza 27
Adidas pants 68 - 6pairs
books- business startup 115- 40 interactive recording books
flip flops- free
pretzel and drink at mall 4
convience store roll: 1
socks 6 (18 pairs!)
sunglasses 8
flip flops for husband 59 (he spent like 25 dollars on shipping!)
hair cut for husband and I: 40
grocery store: 26
convience store: 9
dollar store: 11- preg test, toothpaste, mints, Tylenol
spa, shot glasses, liquor, jets king minus gambling winnings 76-15= 59
liquor extra 13
My personal money  137
Gift hot sauce 4
discount grocery: 53
mcdonalds breakfast  9
asian grocery 41
trader joes 48
glass storm door 150- husband got it marked down from 200 and something because it was a return!
10 dollars lunch with sister and brother and law
60- gas to meet sister and brother and law to get dog and fill up tank
3 cookies
4 ice cream
13 razors
pottery barn curtains 4 $20
Subway 10
convenience store 4
target: 28 (7 curtain rods, 12 food, 4 tampons, 4 eye medicine, 2 shower curtain) 
walmart food 15
mcdonalds: 10
convience store: 5
present for craigs grandpa 4
prescriptions: 8
gas 57 

totals
 prescriptions: 8
Food/cleaning supplies Total: 481
my personal fund (13 clothes, 12 scale, 6 curtains+ 23 clothes- 2 longsleeve shirts, 1 tanktop, 5 pairs of underwear, workout capris books- business startup 115, socks 3 purses 122 alcohol 12 )329
other (preg test) 9 
Husbands personal Fund (bird feeder food 7 nike pants 12, flip flops 59, sunglasses 8 spa, shot glasses, liquor, jets king minus gambling winnings 76-15= 59):147
Dog: 22
 Car repair: 229
Gas: 171
computer repair 108
hair cuts: 40
adidas pants: $68- 6 pairs- to be determined what expense category they are going in.
dollar store: 11
gift 8
liquor extra 13
razors 13
house renovations/repairs 150-20 (sold parent old door that didin't fit) = 130 

tool: 20 counting as business expense but i thought it was unnecessary since husband already has one at shop but insisted needed one at home too to work on the equipment
also spent 18 dollars on pack of 2 car washed which are a business expense since his truck was full of dirt and salt from plowing and I wasnt going to wash it in 40 degree weather even though maybe i should have.