Walking to Zabars

Today my fiance and I are going to walk about 70 blocks to Zabars, a specialty store here in NYC. We need the exercise and walking there means we won't hang out for an hour and load up our cart with every delicious thing so that will help save lots of money. I am trying to live my life more like my ancestors would have 100-150 years ago (baking my own bread, walking instead of driving, etc.) and hopefully this will help me slim down a bit and save a bit of money as well! I think that might be my 30 day goal sometime this year to REALLY live that way (handwashing my own clothes, etc. on top of everything else) but it will be at least September before that is a possibility because of the wedding and the showers and everything that is happening before then that is wedding related.

This is still leftover weekend, apparently. Everything we are eating is leftovers from this week so none of it will go bad hopefully. It always hurts my wallet to see food being thrown out.

Leftovers Again

Today was a day of leftovers so nothing I ate cost anything additional, plus I got breakfast and a soda for free at work. I was sad to find out that the cornbread I made a few days ago had gone bad though. :( I ended up having to throw out half a pan of cornbread! Next time I make it the cornbread lives in the fridge until we finish it instead of in the microwave.

Long Time No See

My computer repairs ended up taking a lot longer than I had anticipated. Almost 2 weeks! And then once I got it back I had to deal with all sorts of other stuff (more flooding in the apartment, for one) so I haven't been around much lately.

My fiance got a part time job on top of his full time job. He is working for the census and is hoping to pull in $1500-$1600 for our home ownership fund. He is still applying for higher paying full time jobs as well. I am currently learning Finnish, in part because it will be nice to speak a bit of it on our honeymoon and also because it will boost my resume a bit to have a foreign language on it. I am also starting to look into some possible classes to improve my resume so that I can possibly move into a higher paying position in the future.

I am making pizza tonight and I made my own dough and my own sauce. It is much cheaper and much healthier to do it this way so that counts as a double-win!

Tacos and a Free Show

Last night I made tacos. They were tasty and the mix I made from scratch was super cheap. I think I probably used about 75 cents worth of spices and I got enough taco seasoning to make tacos 10 or 12 times.

Tonight we have tickets to see a stand-up comedian that my fiance likes. We got them for free through a program we use to get cheap entertainment so we are pretty excited about that.

On Monday he has an interview for a new job that would be a $13,000 per year raise. Woohoo! Everyone keep your fingers crossed for him!

Computer Repair

My laptop has not been functioning properly for a while now but I haven't had the money to get it fixed. My fiance works with a man who can fix it and has discovered that the fan stopped working. We ordered a fan online and he is putting it back together for me today so I am super excited about that! $30 to fix my computer is a lot better than I would pay anywhere else. I am going to bake him some cookies to say thank you for fixing my computer for me.

I'm going to the grocery store tonight to pick up foodstuffs for the next week or so and I am baking a chicken. I am going to make stock with the leftover chicken parts afterwards so I can use it for soup in the future. Yum!

Fruit

Okay, I've made an official decision about fruit. I am not buying it from my grocery store any longer. They have a crappy selection and the prices are only so-so. From now on I am buying my fruit from the fruit vendor across the street from my office. He carries great stuff (as evidenced by the orange and banana I had for lunch today that were delicious!) and the prices are really good considering he isn't selling in bulk. This will save me a ton of money on fruit that gets purchased and then thrown out after a single bite because it sucks so hard.

Starving

I am so super hungry! I am making dough for pizza and it takes a long time to set up. I think I might make a grilled cheese sandwhich or something while I wait.

I bought store-brand tampons today. I don't normally use tampons actually. I am a pad kind of girl but pads are more expensive than tampons so I bought them instead. Hopefully I don't freak out too badly about the change.