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Caving one day early and signing on for another round (mostly)
I caved a bit early...I went 6 days, and *could* have gone today except for two things: (1) a wicked caffeine withdrawal headache--my brain was in desperate need of coffee; and, more importantly, (2) Musikfest (http://www.musikfest.org/), a 10-day music extravaganza which will bring about a million visitors to my fair town (population 75,000). I'd completely forgotten about this--I thought the festival was lovely 15 years ago, but it's gotten bigger and more commercialized each year so that I don't enjoy it nearly as much. I live half a mile from the center of activities and rely on on-street parking. This is my first year in this house so I'm not sure how bad it will be, but the neighbors say that parking gets crowded on the weekends. So I decided to go and do a big grocery shop early, and I plan to leave my car parked from now until Monday morning (unless I run over to the gym first thing on Sat. or Sun.). I went and spent $100 on groceries and $20 on some needed pet supplies, and treated myself to a $5 breakfast out.
I'm going to try for another week--or actually--10 days until the end of Musikfest, with the following exceptions: (1) $20 for more dairy and (if needed) produce about a week from today, and (2) $20 for dining out at Musikfest--they have a lot of ethnic food booths that I scoped out on my morning walk. Carribean Mango shrimp and jambalaya are on my list of possible entrees to sample so far (each about $7). And I'll go and wander the free music sites one or two nights for some free entertainment. I'm wondering how loud things will be here. They were testing the mics this morning and from my front porch, things sounded about as loud as I would want to hear--and I'm half a mile away! I'll get a great view of the fireworks show that they end the festival with next Sunday, too. I'm just hoping that things sound much quieter from the bedroom in back of the house than they do from the front porch!
I caved a bit early...I went 6 days, and *could* have gone today except for two things: (1) a wicked caffeine withdrawal headache--my brain was in desperate need of coffee; and, more importantly, (2) Musikfest (http://www.musikfest.org/), a 10-day music extravaganza which will bring about a million visitors to my fair town (population 75,000). I'd completely forgotten about this--I thought the festival was lovely 15 years ago, but it's gotten bigger and more commercialized each year so that I don't enjoy it nearly as much. I live half a mile from the center of activities and rely on on-street parking. This is my first year in this house so I'm not sure how bad it will be, but the neighbors say that parking gets crowded on the weekends. So I decided to go and do a big grocery shop early, and I plan to leave my car parked from now until Monday morning (unless I run over to the gym first thing on Sat. or Sun.). I went and spent $100 on groceries and $20 on some needed pet supplies, and treated myself to a $5 breakfast out.
I'm going to try for another week--or actually--10 days until the end of Musikfest, with the following exceptions: (1) $20 for more dairy and (if needed) produce about a week from today, and (2) $20 for dining out at Musikfest--they have a lot of ethnic food booths that I scoped out on my morning walk. Carribean Mango shrimp and jambalaya are on my list of possible entrees to sample so far (each about $7). And I'll go and wander the free music sites one or two nights for some free entertainment. I'm wondering how loud things will be here. They were testing the mics this morning and from my front porch, things sounded about as loud as I would want to hear--and I'm half a mile away! I'll get a great view of the fireworks show that they end the festival with next Sunday, too. I'm just hoping that things sound much quieter from the bedroom in back of the house than they do from the front porch!
I needed to get a few things for my MIL's birthday dinner tomorrow and also a present and cards. So I intended to do that today. In addition, I got $150 in the mail I was not expecting! (Maybe we're on to something here...spend no money for a week and get money thrown at you!) So I took my leftover $80 grocery money and the $150 I was not expecting and I bought dinner items, birthday items, and school supplies! I spent a total of $187. That is actually quite good! Our dinner tomorrow, though at home, is rather expensive. We're having Burgundy Beef, sweet potato souffle, rice, homemade bread, frozen fruit salad, strawberry spinach salad and green bean casserole. And cake of course.
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