Finally, it's the weekend and I don't have to get up at 2 am for three whole days! I was planning on a lazy weekend catching up on things that I let slip this week, until I got a call from Cathie about a Burlesque show in Milwaukee tomorrow night. Now I am planning on a fun-filled Saturday night watching awesome ladies sing and dance!
I am also going to get done the things I didn't do this week. The weather this weekend is looking like it will be nice in the morning tomorrow, wet in the afternoon, and dry and warm on Sunday. So, my plan is to take care of garden stuff on Saturday morning, do housework Saturday afternoon, and devote Sunday to installing the invisible dog fence around my yard.
I got paid today and after a little math, I figured out that once I switch to full time, with deductions, I should be making about $530 every two weeks, or about $1060 a month. I am going to open up a savings account on Monday and I will divide each check in half. Half to my savings and half to my checking. I will split the check again and spend half the money i put into my checking to pay off bills. The leftover cash in checking I will use as spending money for the two weeks in between checks and to pay for things like my birthday and trips to platteville and my cats teeth, as well as the Kindle, camera and other items I need for Korea. The money I put in savings I will not touch.
This means that I will be putting aside about $530 a month into savings, be spending about $265 on bills, and have about 265 a month for other expenses. If I keep up this pay rate, I will have my bills paid off in about four months, just in time for Korea. I will have about $2,120 in my savings by that time, and I am also saving the $1,000 I will make at summerfest, so I will have a total of around $3,120 saved by the time I leave. I will have everything I need for my year abroad and have lots of extra money.
I was goofing around online today and I came across a page that has a weeks worth of writing prompts. Starting Monday I will follow these prompts in order to brush up on my creative writing skills. I am also doing this because I don't really have much to talk about Work or Korea wise lately and until I do, I need topics for the slow days. Maybe after I concur this I will try for a months worth of prompts.
