FAIL

So my finances didn't go too well this check. I knew what I was doing when I overspent. I would have had to anyway; there were things that came up that were necessity that was a big chunk and others, I just didn't stop when I should have. I found work pants on sale at K-mart, so I got six pairs and a new pair of sheets for under $60 (and yes, I could have forgone the sheet and I only had one pair of dress pants). I bought two crates at PetSmart, which were on sale, so I paid $141 for both, which is a few dollars over what you expect to pay for just the big one. Those were necessary because now that I'm in the bedroom, we all need our own spaces.

I spent more money at Home Depot than I thought I was going to. I ended up buying new weather proof locks for our sheds since the ones we had were rusting. And I had Sushi twice, which was just bad of me. I won't be going again for a while because of that.

I spent Friday night putting books out on my shelves...which led me to Saturday getting into the shed that holds all the contents of my room and going through that to find the rest of my books and I managed to get six big boxes of stuff filled of things to donate. I still have way too many books. I'm still a couple shelves short in the bedroom, and I was going to go out and just get them, but after doing my finances, I'm going to try and hold off. I will wait until they are on sale and I will budget for them. I will do it right this time.

In the meantime, I am going to go through the books I did keep and get rid of more because it's too many. I can read them all if I never buy a book for the next five years or so, but that isn't going to happen. I can see many books I know I'll never read again. I will keep certain ones, like I have a collection of books on twins, reference novels, and my true crime. But I know I'll never read a lot of those YA ones again because I have too many I'd rather read.

When I was going through things in the shed, I pulled out all my fabric, paints, and canvas. It will be a while before I get the umpfh to get the living room fixed up, so my goal is to organize it to where my fabrics and paints are easily accessible because I need that joy back in my life. The next room I'm going to focus on is the bathroom or kitchen. I want to paint the bathroom and it's a small enough project I can get it done. But I at least want to get all my stuff out of the kitchen and get it usable. And then when I live it in I can have a more realistic goal of how to set up the kitchen and living room.

My mom got sick last week and I've caught whatever she had. It's not serious, but that coupled with all the hard labor from yesterday made me seriously weak and tired today. I hardly did anything. Nothing productive anyway. I managed to finish washing laundry, but it hasn't been put away. The dogs at least got their blankets freshly washed and put back. And because I start day shift day after tomorrow, I need to get my tired bum to bed (and if I hadn't have napped, I'd be sleeping now!).