Freezer – freezer! I can’t wait to stock the freezer!

The deep freezer is scheduled to arrive today – and I can’t wait! So many nights it feels like we get home, clean and cook, and then we’re too tired to do anything else. To tired to sit and read a book, or work out, or go to a museum, or to a movie at the $3 theater… and weekends lately have felt the same way.
Since I’ve already been keeping the menu planner and planning sometimes two weeks out, I figure that with just a bit more administrative oversight I’ll be able to save us from having to do intensive cooking most weeknights!
Here’s an article I found inspiring:
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/06/15/a-beginners-guide-to-once-a-month-cooking/

My birthday’s just over a month away and I realize I’ve gotten so much older this last year. Taxed by wedding drama(s), getting laid off, thinking we’d be forced into bankruptcy, taking another pay cut for a new job. Then this summer realizing (finally) that we have no option but to adjust our financial behavior. And having spent the last two months working on the budget and systems, making to-do lists, etc. – I’m really worn out. Maybe I’ll be able to take some time off in September and just do nothing, or go to free museums, the library...

The new financial plan started on September 1. CC and I still need to establish accounts for our allowances and we need to gather funds scattered in several accounts to consolidate into an emergency fund.
Strict budget adherence started September 1 – so we’re no longer using the debit card willy-nilly – but we’ve cheated the last two nights, stopping by our neighborhood watering hole for nightcaps – and not allocating them to our allowance money. But we had dinner at home and both took lunches to work.

And the paperwork is in for the debt reduction plan. First payment is on 9/16. It feels sort of freeing to think that one piece of the overall plan is in place. CC’s been getting tons of calls from one of his credit cards – I know it’s been stressing him out – so it will great to have those stop.


A final aside, I'm really tired of helicopters (one hovered over our building last night for over an hour). It will be so nice when the Republicans shove off and my fair city will no longer feel like a police state.