Bread Day

Today I am baking bread from scratch! I am baking a loaf of wheat bread for myself and a loaf of white bread for my fiance. We are a two-bread household apparently. Making it from scratch is really cheap so I can't complain.

Also we ended up winning $18 on the race yesterday! Gotta love when that happens!

Kentucky Derby

Today is the Kentucky Derby. We don't live in KY but apparently my fiance is salivating at the thought of putting money on the races. I have talked him into placing no more than two $2 bets. If he had his way we would spend about $100 on horse races today so that is saving a lot of money.

I am going to the grocery store today and my goal for this month is to only eat things that I make myself. This will save me tons of money on impulse buys this month! Next month I think I am going to try to eat on $4 per day but I think we will have to wait and see about that.

Cleaning

Today we did a lot of cleaning and I gathered up all the spare change I found around the house while cleaning and put it in our change jar. I found about $3! Gotta love when that happens.

Zombie Party

Tonight we went to a post apocalypse party at a friend's place and everyone was required to come in costume. We went as zombies (super cheap...the cost of some black make-up and fake blood and we were both in full costume!) and because it is only polite to bring something to a party but we don't have a lot of money to spend I bought a cheap Duncan Hines cake mix, some frosting, and some red food coloring and made a cake that looked like a brain. It was super cheap and everyone thought it was great so it went over well. Tomorrow we have free tickets to a show downtown called Defending the Caveman. I've heard good things about it so we are looking forward to it.

Eyebrows

I plucked my eyebrows yesterday. I let them get crazy bad before I realized that I did indeed need to do something about them. I was just distracted with all the slumlord drama and didn't make time to do it but yesterday I got my tweezers and my mirror and got down to it. I used to pay someone to wax my eyebrows but I can't afford to spend $15 every two weeks to get them done any longer so I just do it myself. I haven't gotten a hair cut in a while but I am not going to attempt to that myself. I will leave it to the professionals so I don't look like I got my hair caught in a wood chipper.

Food Freak Outs

Yesterday I microwaved my lunch at work and when I took it out of the microwave the container bumped the edge of the counter. This doesn't sound like a big deal, except that the force of it threw my lunch all over the floor. I ended up going to McDonald's for lunch and crying a little bit because I was so angry (about lots of things actually, not just the lunch, though that was the catalyst for the tears) but I got fed so it wasn't a big deal. Then this morning I put some oatmeal in the microwave and it swelled up, causing it to pour over the edge of the cup and all over the microwave turning plate. I stood there and looked at it for a minute before I just pulled the plate out of the microwave and scraped the oatmeal back in the cup. I microwaved it for another minute and monitored for spillage this time but I was not about to let the microwave beat me two days in a row. I also was not about to pay for a new breakfast when I had a breakfast already in front of me.

I'm Back Again

Our apartment has been a shambles. After the ceiling collapsed it decided to spew water into the apartment so we have been putting buckets and plastic sheets underneath it and arguing with our landlord about him letting us out of our lease. He stopped taking our phone calls and we had to contact a lawyer (a family member who helped us out for free!) to get him to even agree to come in and fix the problem. Then yesterday we had an inspector come out and look at the place AND we discovered partial flooding and new mold in the bathroom. We live in such a slum. :(

However, now that they are coming to repair the ceiling today and the place has been inspected we have a bit more time now so I can get back to updating the blog more regularly. I tried to make a delicious oatmeal recipe I found online for breakfast today but I used about 80,000 times more ginger than you are supposed to apparently and it burned the crap out of my mouth so I threw it out and ate shredded mini-wheats instead. I ate the malt-o-meal cereal instead of the Post or Kelloggs brand.

Yesterday we wanted to do something fun and cheap so we threw a blanket, a kite, and some chips and soda into a bag and invited some friends to a picnic in the park. We enjoyed the day immensely and now we are on the lookout for new kites so we can all have one. I found an adorable sponge bob kite on amazon but I haven't purchased one yet. I can't justify the money on a kite at this point.