So the weekend is going well thus far.  Yesterday was another slow day at the shop, which was fine.  The highlight of the day was going to lunch with my mom, grandmother and aunt.  The sleepover went really well and I even managed to get maybe 5 hours of sleep.  Not the most comfortable sleep.  And it was interrupted at one point around 3am by girls running and screaming down the hallway… but I wasn’t too surprised. 

So after reading some of the comments on my last post with the financial updates I realized I had one more update to give….

We have acheived the FIRST Baby Step of Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps.  We have $1,000 in an Emergency Fund ( And it’s in ING so it can grow through there!).  Next we’ll be looking at our Debt Snowball plan, starting out with some of our smaller debts and getting them payed off and working up to the larger ones (Jeep and house).

Ok those are my updates.  Still plugging away at work today.  We’ve already had two customers today…  oh and now the mailman! 

So usually thursday nights i’m looking forward to friday.  End of the week, pay day, no more work til Tuesday.  But not this weekend…  My crazy weekend begins with a junior high girls overnight being followed up by working at the shop from 8:30am-1pm Saturday.  I don’t normally work saturdays… but it just so happened that Mr. Judd and two of the guys in the shop that work saturdays are in Hershey for the pmea state conference.  So i’m working instead.  If it’s anything like my 8 hour day today… it’ll be a dozen phone calls and one real customer.  Yeah that’s right.  It was a slow, yet nice, yet slow day.  

So if you run across me this weekend and I’m zombie-ish or in a bad mood… my apologies.  It’s not you, It’s me and my lack of sleep.

I’m waiting for some brownies to bake for tomorrow night… so I feel I’ll be up a bit longer.  I thought maybe I’d update you on our financial battle… eventually I don’t want it to be a battle… but right now it’s still feeling like one.

Jeep pay off spectacular update:  We’ve colored in the whole top of the vehicle!  Windows and Windshield included… 

1030 Louisa St. pay off spectacular update:  Ok… since I just made this one and I started from the beginning I filled in quite a few boxes last time with my green marker.  Reality kind of hit though when I saw our most recent mortgage payment and where the money went.  I only filled in 1.7 squares… darn you interest and escrow!

Money Envelopes update:  Well we’ve been trying to stick to $100 grocery and $100 out to eat cash envelopes.  The groceries are going pretty well… though some how we always end up losing some of the money somewhere when we “need cash” and all we have are our envelopes.  Maybe i’ll start making a miscellaneous envelope of $25 or $50 for each month so that we don’t dig into our food allowance.  Anyway, I’ve been pretty good at spending $20-$25 at the store each week.  Unfortunately it doesn’t really allow for much extra.  It normally covers lunchmeat, cheese and bread for the week, plus milk, eggs, a weekly breakfast choice and any other little necessity, and maybe even some meat to cook for dinner!  So maybe I’ll look to up that amount a little bit.  Eating out often bites us in the butt.  Somehow we always get down to about $10 about half way through the month.  That’s not good planning because then we get hit up to go out to eat with friends or have a night where neither of us wants to cook (cough like tonight).  So maybe some reassessment is in order for next month.  

Ok that’s my update… and i’m pretty sure the brownies aren’t done yet… it’s another late night.