another bump

another bump in the savings calculator on the right! YAY!

it's tax time!

i did our taxes last night and was pleasantly surprised.
We expected (hoped?) to at least break even, or maybe owe less than $300. Instead, we are getting almost $2500 back!
So $400 of that has been earmarked as "fun money" for us, since we've kept on track so well.
I've spent my $200 on something fitness related, so that i can use it and improve my health while i'm at it :)

March

Well, I updated the downpayment ticker on the side... we're getting there pretty quickly!

Still waiting on word from the house, so we'll see. We've scoped out several other houses, and none prompted an offer, so we are still REALLY hoping for this one to come through. This coming monday will be 5 weeks of waiting. Ugh, don't they know i'm NOT this patient normally?

I bought a stroller yesterday. It's sort of against the rules and sort of not. I needed it for training for the 3day, and since I bought it, I'm selling my other 2 strollers. It made yesterdays training walk 100,000 times easier. I made it 3 times as far and stopped b/c i WANTED to... not b/c the kids were fed up with bumps and wind, and my arms weren't tired from holding a cup and pushing a stroller that doesn't steer straight. It was lovely.

Woohooo

Woohooo! Check out the ticker to the right! Big chunk of our downpayment is done! YAY!
Just a little more to go!

and the wallet continues to bleed

ughhh, I hate that we are able to save money for something specific (downpayment) but then big expenses keep popping up for the family. Jr has to get his registration for his car done today. That's at least $100 gone. To follow the $40 he spent on inspection this weekend, and $1301 on car repairs last week. Ughhhh.
On the up side, though, we've socked away $1000.00 in one week. Score! This will be atypical for us as we don't normally have that much money coming in at one time, but I had a few deposits come in, as well as JR winning a few hundred dollars from the superbowl (and he finally got it last week)

It has been one week since we put our offer in on the house in Corinth and no word back yet. We were told it would take about 5 weeks. Lord help me... if I can last that long, I'm sure my nervous system will be shot.

ENTER TO WIN

So I'm going a buzzreport for Chilis with their Guiltless Grill. Their GG menu includes items that are under 750 calories, so they are good for dieters.
I have a set of 2 FREE GG entree coupons to give away. It's like a free date night :)
All you have to do is comment on this blog entry and I'll contact you to get your address :)

PS: if you're involved in this campaign, PLEASE don't enter. Let someone else get a freebie :)

I know this is unrelated

but WAHOOO!!
I FINALLY lost the .2 lbs I've been busting butt for the last 3 days, and I'm down into the 142.xx range. I was dying to break out of 143.


well that weird. it cuts off the right side. Anyways, it just says "14lbs" as the end goal.