October Redux

October:
No-Spend Days: 19
No Eating Out Days: 25
Extra Income: $232.80 ($149 from surveys, $50 statement credit from my credit card, and $33.80 interest)
Progress Toward Savings Goal: 54.57%
Retirement Savings: $243.66
Work-Out Days: 5 – AND 21 No-Carb Days! I am on a roll! Well, over the long Halloween weekend I totally fell OFF the roll but I’m working on getting it back :)
Books Finished: 1

Look at all that healthy-type stuff! :O

I am really, really proud of something in this post - see if you can find it!

September:
No-Spend Days: 19
No Eating Out Days: 28
Extra Income: $249.04 ($91.91 from selling books on amazon, $105.75 from surveys, and $51.38 interest)
Progress Toward Savings Goal: 42.85%
Retirement Savings: $316.32
Work-Out Days: 0 – BUT as of today I have made it four weeks without carbs :) Going to start adding working out into the mix in October, too, but I think the diet thing is a good trade-off for this month!
Books Finished: 2

Eventually there will be a post that *isn't* a fly-by

...but this isn't it. As we ramp up for the "start of the school year" (we're open all year long but we get a big influx around this time of year) I am working on not losing my mind. Oh, and I just got laser eye surgery yesterday! Ha! Big things going on over here. Anyway, I'm rushing off to put in my ten thousandth set of eye-drops and maybe break for some food, but in the meantime:

August:
No-Spend Days: 16
No Eating Out Days: 26 (Really surprised this isn’t higher)
Extra Income: $110.81 ($81.65 from surveys – see what happens when you stop doing them – and $29.16 in interest)
Progress Toward Savings Goal: 44.56%
Retirement Savings: $171.74
Work-Out Days: 5 (better!)
Books Finished: 0 – yep, that’s right, a big fat zero. Honestly, after summer quarter, I’m surprised I even remember *how* to read!

Fly-by

July:

No-Spend Days: 16 (I think)
No Eating Out Days: 22 (I think)
Extra Income: $198.40 ($71 from surveys, $100 statement credit from my credit card, and $27.40 interest)
Progress Toward Savings Goal: 40.38%
Retirement Savings: $201.18 (including $2 I found in the road – ha ha)
Work-Out Days: 1 (I know this one is correct – and yikes!)
Books Finished: 3 (but two of them were technical manuals – does that count for, like, 7?)

On the fly

Can't talk, gotta do more HW, but real quick:

June:
No-Spend Days: 21
No Eating Out Days: 22
Extra Income: $224.50 ($99.25 from surveys, $86.90 from selling books, and $38.35 interest)
Progress Toward Savings Goal: 43.81% (and this even includes increasing my total goal amount, so that’s exciting!)
Retirement Savings: $217.24
Work-Out Days: 4 (real workouts – an improvement!)
Books Finished: 2 (but this will lag for awhile – tons of homework this summer!)

Life is Glorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrious!

The sun is finally out in Seattle! It's been a really rainy spring/early summer, and I have had EEEEnough, I tell you what. But it's 63 today and supposed to be 80 tomorrow and I feel like dancing in the streets. Say what you will about the rain[1], but after a drizzly stretch sun isn't just sun - it's euphoria. PLUS I'm not at work, and how can you beat that!

Anyway, before I go off to frolic in the fields or something[2], here's the update for May. Need to get better about the working out, for sure, and reduce the eating out (even if Airbear pays, lol), but these last few weeks have been wiping me out. We'll have the summer schedule set at work soon, though, and things will settle a bit.

Anyway, here goes!

May:

No-Spend Days: 19 ***OMG WHY does it make an extra space after this?!?!***

No Eating Out Days: 23

Extra Income: $231.98 ($174.45 from surveys (!!), $50 cash back from my chase card, and $7.53 interest)
Progress Toward Savings Goal: 31.36%
Retirement Savings: $220.04
“Healthy” Days (eating well or working out): 3 (2 dancing, 1 actual workout)
Books Finished: 5 – nice!

[1] It doesn't actually rain every day in Seattle. But don't tell California.

[2] Take a shower, hippie! [3]

[3] I don't stink!! I TAKED A SHOWER!! [4]

[4] Whatever. My Mom thinks I'm funny :)

My memory is not so good

... since it's mid-May, but hey, I've been later :) Anyway, April's redux:

April:

No-Spend Days: 19

No Eating Out Days: 22

Extra Income: $197.08 ($50 cash back from discover, $140.35 from surveys (including 2 movie tickets), and $6.73 interest)

Progress Toward Savings Goal: 25.94%

Retirement Savings: $307.20

Working Out Days: 2 (both dancing – but serious, sore-next-day dancing!)

Books Finished: 3 (way better!)

Now if I could just get motivated to do something about that workout goal ;)