I can't believe it's already the end of January (or just about) and a whole year since I got engaged.
After lots of waiting and saving, the wedding is less than six months away!!!!
And little by little I've still been chipping away at my student loan debt.
So here is my monthly report card:
That's all for now, stay warm!
I am ridiculously late posting this budget.
Luckily I saved some money from my last paycheck to help towards the $350 attorney registration fee I have to pay.
And saving for the wedding, something that doesn't seem to ever be done with, sigh. It's less than six months away now so I'm getting excited. Still lots of money to be saved (and then spent).
So here's where my money will be going this pay period:
Starting Balance = $1375
400 - Wedding Savings
350 - Attorney registration
174 - Credit card
95 - Perkins loan
55 - Law school loan
100 - Groceries
50 - Valentine's Day*
40 - Health co-pays
111 - Misc.
*I found a cool place to go for Valentine's Day with my fiance and prepaid my half of the cost.
I also filed my taxes last night! I should be getting a refund of about $600, but all of that will be going into the wedding savings.
I'm 30!!!!!!!!! I celebrated my birthday last weekend with my fiance and some friends. It was a nice, low key evening and luckily all my fears of "getting old" quickly faded into the background. I don't know why I was so focused on a number.
My birthday is coming up! Good golly I'm turning 30. And somehow my paycheck today managed to be $5 less than it usually is. But no more! I am adjusting my withholding in anticipation of my 2010 marriage. This has got to be the trickiest thing we have ever tried to figure out but I think (crosses fingers) that my paycheck will get bigger!
So very briefly, here's a rough budget for the next two weeks. I have a couple of annoying expenses that are coming up (professional fee!) and holiday spending that I will have to account for.
Starting Balance = $1275
Credit Card - 100
Groceries - 75
Sallie Mae - 407
Defaulted Student Loan - 260
Nice Collection Agency - 125
Sprint - 73
Misc. - 236*
*Some of this I hope to roll over to the next pay period to help pay for a professional fee.
Happy New Year!
Between the holidays and my busy time at work starting up I am crazy busy. Or just crazy. :-)
I do have a lot to say so real quickly:
My fiance got a $2000 bonus at work!
We refinanced the condo mortgage today!
I had a work vent but I think everything is okay.
I spent way too much money over the holidays and I'm just trying to make up for it now.
So...in the meantime here's where my "cash" went over the past two weeks and in a few hours I will deal with everything else.
Projected/Actual
