Sabrina’s Money Madness

Ok now I am starting to think I’m a spazz. I had a clear and concise budget all written out for school. It had my tuition amounts, how much I had to pay, and where exactly the money for the classes was going to come from. It took me 2 days to make that thing up. Now I can’t find it. I think I threw it away when I was throwing my old weekly budget away.

I can’t stand the thought of having to make up a new one. That’s another 2 days worth of torture.

I dropped one of my classes. For whatever reason I thought I had dropped my Monday night class when in actuality I dropped my Tuesday night class. It was almost 7:30pm when I realized that I had missed my class. I need to email my professor today and find out what information I missed and what I can do to catch up with the class.

I don’t even know what I was thinking. I sure as heck didn’t forget to look for Anoretix when I went out but I totally spazzed on my class. Ugh, I hope this is not a preview of things to come this semester.

I had fun playing hooky today. I went out to eat and had a steak dinner. It included steak, potatoes, broccoli and toast. For my drink I had a strawberry lemonade. I also had a small strawberry cheesecake desert. I only ate half of the food and I brought the other half home. Then I went to WalMart and got some stuff that I needed. I didn’t need to buy cattle supplies, but I did get tissue, some new soap and a cute t-shirt that I really liked.

Now I’m home capping off the day by doing laundry. All in all it was a pretty good day.

I had said that there was no way that I was dropping that class for my major. But I did wind up dropping it. It wasn’t because I couldn’t pay for it either. I found out that it was a writing course. This will be one of the hardest classes that I’ll take and I don’t want it as a writing course. The class is tentatively scheduled to not have the writing option attached next semester.

Either way, I have to take it next semester in order to graduate.

I took lunch to work on Monday but I never ate it. My friends and I ate lunch outside all week. I had grilled chicken almost every day. I need to stop spending so much extra money and get back on track with taking lunch. I don’t need to shop at all this week for lunch I have so much stuff left. I won’t be buying adult diapers, soda or snacks this week. I’ll probably buy milk and yogurt since I’m running low on those things.

I plan on taking lunch at least 4 times next week.

I leave Friday and return Monday night. The only bad part is that I won’t get home until close to midnight. That means I’ll be really tired on Tuesday. Of course that’s the day that I have class.

Now I need to figure out what I’m taking. No swimsuits for me, I won’t be swimming. I will take a couple pairs of shorts and some sandals. I may also take my denim skirt as long as I can find a pair of comfortable shoes to take.

I’m just glad I’m almost ready to go.

I have some long posts on this blog. I’m going to try to keep my regular posts shorter. It’s easier to pound them out. And I can keep them in a series making 1 subject or topic, 2 or 3 separate posts. Of course some will be longer but not as personal.

It’s time for the kids to go back to school. You might be looking for a new cell phone for your kids to take back to school with them. You may even be considering a switch to Verizon Wireless since they do offer the best touch screen phones in the business. If not a cell phone, how about a free Sierra Wireless aircard to keep the kids computer connected to the internet? It’s hard for me to believe because we didn’t have these things when I was a full time student, but some schools offer free access to their students. I wish I had those options.

Last year I had to switch existing number to T-Mobile because I left my provider. I had a old model at&t cell phones and I wasn’t too pleased with it. They wouldn’t give me a new model, hence the switch. I got a free phone and a rebate. There’s a deal now where they are giving away free headsets but I didn’t get that deal. I also don’t want a headset. They look weird to me with that light flashing next to my face. I also don’t get that many calls that I need to stay constantly connected.

I just wish I could get a deal where I don’t have to pay my bill for a few months. Now that would be the ultimate deal.

I want to do things a little differently for next years reunion. My uncle just told me that they’re having a committee and I’ll have to join it. The only hard part is since I live so far away, I’ll have to get all of the information second-hand. I am considering it though.

I have some great fund raising ideas.

My family reunion is next weekend and I can’t wait. I just thought of something that we should have done. We should get custom t-shirts for all of the family. I browsed around the custom-tshirts.com site and I saw some great designs. We could buy them in bulk so they wouldn’t be that expensive. And they would make a great commerative of our reunion.

I just wish I had thought of getting them sooner. We could have definitely added them to our budget and I know everyone would love them. Oh well, there’s always next year’s reunion. I’ll be sure to add them to our list now.

I have no idea what I’m having for lunch today. I have a dinner in the freezer but I really don’t want it. There are 3 of us that go to lunch together and none of us have any ideas on what to eat. We always go out for lunch on either Thursday or Friday. That means I’ll eat that frozen dinner tomorrow.

But as for today, I’m stumped.

My family is having a reunion during Labor Day weekend. Almost everything is taken care of. I have to buy either paper products or fix a side dish. Considering I’m a horrible cook, I’ll probably go with the paper products.

I might buy something like juice drinks for the kids. They want chips, ice cream, pretzels and stuff like that. Nothing like crib bedding for the babies, the parents had better bring that themselves. Cribs, blankets or mattresses, as long as the kids have something to sit or sleep on.

 I’ll look through the paper this weekend and see if I can find a coupon for anything. If I can save money, I’ll definitely get whatever the coupon is good for. I won’t buy anything until I get home though. I don’t want to lug stuff on the plane.