Wednesday, February 2, 2011

February Goals in Life


FOR FEBRUARY

Health

- 2 days a week do bootcamp at the Y, EA sports or run other days-This is going well. I was sick a week this month, but otherwise, pretty good. I also notice the painesville YMCA now has bootcamp, so I may hit that up Mon and/or Wed nights!

Personal/Fun
- Zak library days once every couple weeks--Fridays after school are going well!
- Meme's house once a week for dinners--So far so good, I love it!
- start a book--finished it! I need to finish the one I got now.
Vanishing Acts
The Next thing on my List
- date nights/family nights 1 day a week--Sat/Sun--Adam started his new job. This week has been nuts, so I think we will like it when this month slows down

Make Money
- inbox dollars: Current balance $29.06 :)
- coupons: Didn't do much last month and probably not this month ethier, unless its NEEDED
- expo tv: Current balance: 8539 (Goal: 60000)
- hit 4 pay: Current balance: $12.58
- beeZag: Current balance: 2210 (goal 8000)
- ebay: still stuck here...

Debt
- washer and dryer (pay off in Jan)--well this didn't work out. I think i'm gonna wait for my tax return and pay this off. For now I want to do my normal "Savings" contributions.
- Pay off credit card every 2 weeks--yucko this past month.

House
- Clean out closets (Jan,March,June,Sept)--Did mine for Jan.
- Randi clean once a month--hopefully next week

Finance
2011 budget

all year savings
- $500/mo wedding (from PNC acct)
- Zaks $25/mo in savings and budget for camp ($115/week for 10 weeks i believe) (from charles schwab acct)
- House funds and Emergency fund $100 in each/mo (was $265/mo for both accounts, but i'm decreasing it next year) (from Charles Schwab acct)
- Roth $416/mo (from Charles Schwab acct)
= $13,692 + $1,150 for camp = $1236/mo then bills. ($756 transferred to Charles Schwab account from PNC acct)

then: $50/wk groceries
         $50/mo gas
         $60/mo cleaning lady
         $72/mo electric
         $790/mo mortgage
         $182/mo in car gas
         $20/mo life insurance
         $40/mo entertainment (people over, going out etc)
         $30/mo pharmacy 
         $20/mo fast food (we are no longer buying out coffee)
         $110/mo gifts
         any auto repairs i'll pull from savings
         $180/mo cell phone and home internet
         $100/mo house stuff/decor etc
        =$1654

=$2990 total 

This is gonna be a tight year. I'm not looking to updating anything in the house, just repairs.  Notice I dont have anything for clothing lol. I just hope we dont spend $110/mo on gifts or $30/mo pharmacy etc. I'm getting off my birth control soon, so that'll save me $15/mo too.

Career
- Clinical ladder (2010 & 2011)--finish 2010 by Jan 31st--DONE!!
- Work wed&thurs sat/sun
- hopefully get a Nurse Facilitator Job!

Meals
Here's a big list of meals I created, i'll cross them off as we eat them :)

All in one pasta

Chicken Cacciatore


Slow cooker Beef stew

Awesome slow cooker meatballs

Slow cooker Chicken Cacciatore


Slow cooker Ravioli Casserole (crowd size)

Favorite Meatloaf

Cheesy Salsa Mini Meatloafs

Bruschetta Chicken Bake

Slow cooker beef strogonoff

Slow cooker white chicken chili

Pumpkin Lasagna

Shepherds pie

Layered Fiesta Casserole

Cream Chicken Bacon Penne

Spaghetti Bolgonese

Wisconsin Cheddar Cheese soup

Slow cooker cream cheese chicken

Easy Crockpot Salsa Chicken

Swiss Veggie Casserole

Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breasts


Chicken and Brocoli Alfredo

Chicken and rice divan

Chicken Primavera with Pasta

Overnight oatmeal


Bistro Chicken


Broccoli Stuffed Chicken Breasts

Italian Marinated Chicken

Unstuffed Peppers

Taco Salad Bowls

Skillet Chicken and Vegetable Parmesan

Skillet Garlic Chicken

Hearty Italian Chicken Chowder

Foil pack Bruschetta Chicken Bake

Tasty 2 step Chicken

Slow cooker Chicken and Dumplings

Mozzerella Stuffed Meatloaf

Chicken Broccoli and Mushroom Bake

Healified Fettichini Alfredo

Three bean turkey Chili

Chicken Penne Florentine Bake

Grilled Turkey Club

Chuckwagon Chili Mac

bbq roasted chicken with parmesan potatoes

Favorite grilled chicken caesar salad


Master List of February things to accomplish
    • Gotta get to the gym 3 times a week.
    • Library Fridays every 2 weeks
    • Dinner with Meme on Mondays
    • Family nights Sat/Sun
    • expo tv every monday/friday
    • Get ATM set up
    • finish invites
    • Day with Fr Ted
    • finalize florist
    • book Randi
    • book Kalahari!! (for April)
    • hopefully get my new job
    • Pay CC 2/10 and 2/15, transfer $$ 2/2 for savings

February Financial Goals

MY NEICE AND NEPHEW WERE BORN LAST NIGHT!


Expenses I expect this month:
-ATM- $3000 (not losing anything in this)
-Miranda's Birthday- $20
-Chrissy's Birthday- $30 
-Linda's retirement party- $25 

Wedding plans this month:
-Finish the invite layouts
-book a meeting with Fr Ted
-get guestlist uploaded to the knot
-book honeymoon
-book florist for real now
-Saturday is a bridal show, go to that and meet my photographer
For my accounts according to mint.com:
Orange is this month  Red is last month
  • PERSONAL
  • Chase (low yeild checking):  closed!!
  • Charles Schwab (high yeild checking):  $210.03 $1695.21 up $1485.18
  • Charles Schwab savings: $364.27 $364.27 same
  • PNC  $1604.40 $1948.80 up $344.40
  • PNC  $10.01 $10.01 same
  • PNC $10.03 $10.04  up $.01
  • First Merit checking: closed!!
  • Capital One emergency:$19121.29 $19147.65 up 26.36
  • Capital One Savings:   $6075.81 $678.96 down $5396.85 due to paying off cc and $3000 to charles schwab for ATM
  • Smartypig (our wedding fund):  $8974.44 $9974.44 up $1000
  • INVESTMENTS
  • Charles Schwab Roth IRA (5/09 opened): $9658.65 $9697.19  up $38.54 (I didn't contribute)
  • LHS retirement account(stopped contributing 5/10): $4585.84 $4685.08 up $99.24
  • OPERS retirement account(account now closed, opened Traditional IRA 5/10): $10.123.41 $10123.50 up $.09
  • Zak's Etrade savings account: $2785.36 $2813.31 up $27.95
  • Zak's CollegeAdvantage fund: $1402.35 $1447.85 up $45.50
  • MISC
  • Coupon savings this month: $2.02- I didn't spend much this month to save
  • Speedy points:   142848 143241 up 393
  • Swagbucks!:  1734 1866 up132
  • Spending this month We're not adding anything because it was a rough month again

Total gained: $1855.94 :( We were down ALOT so it's ok, we'll be ok...



We're gonna be down this month because of so many expenses with Lakeland and Adam's surgery. He is trying to save, and we're waiting on insurance companies to help too. Ugh.