June Goals in Life

FOR JUNE

Health

- 2 days a week do bootcamp at the Y, EA sports or run other days - I have been slacking. We have been so busy this month in the yard, it's insane. But I did buy a bootcamp pass for beachwood, I am going to go do that in June

Personal/Fun

- Zak library days once every couple weeks--Too nice out to go there.

- Meme's house once a week for dinners--Haven't cooked much of anything :(

- start a book--Look!! I have a list!
Vanishing Acts
The Next thing on my List
The Last Kiss
The Choice
The Holocaust Diaries 
My horizontal life Been too busy again this month!!

- date nights/family nights 1 day a week--Sat/Sun--We are getting family time between all this

Make Money

- inbox dollars: $19.49 (with 56 unread emails, sheesh!)

- coupons: not this month

- expo tv: Current balance: 15369(Goal: 60000)

- hit 4 pay: Current balance: $13---I think i'm giving up on this one, its too slow.
- beeZag: Current balance: 930 (goal 8000)
- ATM: This month we made: $18.75

Debt

- ipads and macbook- will pay off by next year this time. 12 mo no interest. -$215 I pay every month with Adams help

- Pay off credit card every 2 weeks--Doing well here too.

House

- Clean out closets (Jan,March,June,Sept)--I did the WHOLE house declutter!

- Randi clean once a month-- She cleaned the other day which is helping us!
- We need to sell our house.- Jody comes Friday!
- Fix little things, paint touch ups etc - We haven't slacked here!!

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)--decreasing to $216/mo and other $200 will go to savings for a down payment

= $13,692 + $1,150 for camp = $1236/mo then bills. ($756 transferred to Charles Schwab account from PNC acct)

Working an extra 12 hr shift a pay until the wedding so we can pay it!

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
         $215/mo macbook ipads

         any auto repairs i'll pull from savings

         $180/mo cell phone and home internet

         $100/mo house stuff/decor etc

        =$1869

=$3205 total 

This is tight, but so far so good.

Career

- Clinical ladder--Got my check :)

- Work wed/thurs sat/sun--This has been hard
- hopefully get a Nurse Facilitator Job!--Got some overtime the last few weeks too!

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

Wedding

We're on the 4 month countdown now!!

this is what we have done so far:

Davids Bridal: $2.16 (swatches), $77.09 for bra under my dress
The Knot: $88.39, $132.62 gifts and our cake cutter and flutes
China: $232 dress, $60.35 (Tiara)
Pat Catans: $15.83 (sand stuff, which I guess we don’t need, but we do need candles which ill get)
Church: $75 (precana)
Walmart: $21 (flower basket, ring bearer pillow)
Jelwelry: $707.85
Cake Topper: $22.96
Tux: $20 (they made me put down a deposit)
Honeymoon: $1261.98 (resort), $378.60, $378.60 (airfares)
Invites- $233.25

Hotel for us: $143.10

bubbles for ceremony- $37.13

license to wed: July 10- $44

Tip for Church- $50

save the dates: $145

my shoes: $20

Cake- $375

= $4521.91

We still have tentively:
Italian American Club (our reception)- $7000
A Crystal Clear Sound and video (our photographer, videographer, and DJ)- $2550
Liquor- $500
Placecards
Programs
Florist - $117.42 + ceremony décor and boutonnières and cortèges 29.42, 8.20
Rehearsal Dinner- thinking around $250

buy candles for unity candle.

Zachary Adoption: we have to get the ball rolling here in July 

 

Master List of June things to accomplish

• • Gotta get to the gym 3 times a week.
  • Dinner with Meme on whatever days we can!
  • Family nights Sat/Sun
  • Get our house up on the market
  • Start looking at houses, we got the ball rolling here too
  • expo tv every monday/friday
  • finalize florist/flowers
  • book a day with baker (when the house lists)
  • Call charles schwab on my IRA (after the house lists)
  • Sign up Zak for Soccer and find out when basketball sign ups are
  • Pay CC 6/2 and 6/16 and 6/30 (extra pay this month!), transfer $$ 6/2 (OT) then 6/16 (OT and for savings and wedding) and 6/30 (OT)
  
  
  

May Goals in Life

FOR MAY

Health

- 2 days a week do bootcamp at the Y, EA sports or run other days - going better. Adam and I have gotten there together a few times this month, but otherwise, i've been doing ea sports

Personal/Fun

- Zak library days once every couple weeks--He hasn't wanted to go... :(

- Meme's house once a week for dinners--busy this month, only had her over 2x

- start a book--Look!! I have a list!
Vanishing Acts
The Next thing on my List
The Last Kiss
The Choice
The Holocaust Diaries 
My horizontal life 

- date nights/family nights 1 day a week--Sat/Sun--Spring break was fun, we did a movie night, zak and I went to toys r us too

Make Money

- inbox dollars: $18.14

- coupons: got a couple good things!

- expo tv: Current balance: 15069(Goal: 60000)

- hit 4 pay: Current balance: $13---I think i'm giving up on this one, its too slow.
- beeZag: Current balance: Just cashed our $8 back to 690 (goal 8000)
- ATM: This month we made:$43

Debt

- ipads and macbook- will pay off by next year this time. 12 mo no interest. -$215 I pay every month with Adams help

- Pay off credit card every 2 weeks--Doing well here too.

House

- Clean out closets (Jan,March,June,Sept)--I did it finally, and did the upstairs storage area too! And zak's!

- Randi clean once a month-- We skipped her this month due to unexpected house expenses
- We need to sell our house.- this month, talk to Jody and get it up on the market
- Fix little things, paint touch ups etc (this is adam and ofcourse with our busy lives, we haven't even started, well do it when we have nice weather!!)

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
         $215/mo macbook ipads

         any auto repairs i'll pull from savings

         $180/mo cell phone and home internet

         $100/mo house stuff/decor etc

        =$1869

=$3205 total 

This is tight, but so far so good.

Career

- Clinical ladder--I got it!! I got a ceremony and check may 10 :)

- Work wed/thurs sat/sun
- hopefully get a Nurse Facilitator Job!--GOT IT!! Got a $2 raise too!

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


Wedding
This month I added this category, this is what we have done so far:
Davids Bridal: $2.16 (swatches), $77.09 for bra under my dress
The Knot: $88.39, $132.62 gifts and our cake cutter and flutes
China: $232 dress, $60.35 (Tiara)
Pat Catans: $15.83 (sand stuff)
Church: $75 (precana)
Walmart: $21 (flower basket, ring bearer pillow)
Jelwelry: $707.85
Cake Topper: $22.96
Tux: $20 (they made me put down a deposit)
Honeymoon: $1261.98 (resort), $378.60, $378.60 (airfares)
Invites- $233.25

save the dates: $145

my shoes: $20
Cake- we have someone $375
= $4247.68

We still have tentatively:
Italian American Club (our reception)- $8500
A Crystal Clear Sound and video (our photographer, videographer, and DJ)- $3150
Liquor
Placecards
programs (i'm hoping my sisters can help me here)
Florist ($25/bouquet for girls), Lydia is doing mine on saturday 4/3 and I gotta get corsages still
Tip for Church-
Rehersal Dinner- we're thinking around $200 we're going to have it catered so everyone can come
Hotel room for us
gifts for our parents? not sure here
license to wed: July 10

Zachary Adoption: we have to get the ball rolling here in July 

wedding things to do:

-make ceremony booklet (my sisters are working on it)

-meet with lydia for flowers (end of the week)

-book cake appt (she wasn't in the new office last month)

-arrange rehearsal dinner (maybe make up some invites?)

-call musician for church (adam's on it)

 

Master List of May 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
  • Get our house up on the market, probably in June
  • Start looking at houses, we got the ball rolling here too
  • Fix our basement wall & plumbing ($5000 here), were getting 3 more estimates and i need to book
  • expo tv every monday/friday
  • finalize florist/flowers
  • book a day with baker (when shes open)
  • call YMCA for refund 
  • Call charles schwab on my IRA
  • call discover bank and college advantage
  • call monroe brakes
  • Pay CC 5/5 and 5/19, transfer $$ 5/19 for savings and wedding
  
  
  

May Financial Goals

Expenses I expect this month:
-brakes for my car

Wedding plans this month:
-make ceremony booklet (my sisters are working on it)
-meet with lydia for flowers (end of the week)
-book cake appt (she wasn't in the new office last month)
-arrange rehearsal dinner (maybe make up some invites?)
-call musician for church (adam's on it)

For my accounts according to mint.com:
Red is this month  Orange is last month

• PERSONAL
• Charles Schwab (high yeild checking):  $2372.28 $1913.75 down $458.25
• Charles Schwab savings:  $491.59 $1079.59 up $588
• PNC   $2049.28 $3292.05 up $1242.77
• PNC  $10.01 same
• PNC  $10.05 $10.07 up $.02
• Capital One emergency:   $16378.84 $16398.65 up $19.81
• Capital One Savings: $879.15 $879.22 up $.07
• Smartypig (our wedding fund):  $12508.75 $13008,75 up $500
• INVESTMENTS
• Charles Schwab Roth IRA (5/09 opened): $10146.66 $10616.60 up $469.94
•  
• LHS retirement account: $4779.63 $5027.35 up $247.72
• OPERS retirement account(account now closed, opened Traditional IRA 5/10):  $10123.67 $10123.76 up $.09
• Zak's Etrade savings account:$2868.77 2971.50 up $102.73 (forgot password i have to fix it this month)
• Zak's CollegeAdvantage fund:  $1470.10 $1520.59 up $50.49 (forgot password i have to fix it this month)
• MISC
• ATM savings this month: $43.75
• Speedy points:   144052 144365 up 313
• Swagbucks!: 2182 2272 up 90
• Spending this month: We're going to start adding the ATM money.

Total gained: $1850.67

April Goals in Life

FOR APRIL

Health

- 2 days a week do bootcamp at the Y, EA sports or run other days - Not going well for March because they scheduled me almost every friday. Right now though I'm doing the dot challenge. I need to get there 3 days a week and in the end i get a tshirt :)

Personal/Fun

- Zak library days once every couple weeks--fell off the wagon, this month we're gonna get back on

- Meme's house once a week for dinners--So far so good, I love it!

- start a book--Look!! I have a list!
Vanishing Acts
The Next thing on my List
The Last Kiss
The Choice
I have one waiting at the library for me

- date nights/family nights 1 day a week--Sat/Sun--We're doing well here. We have Kalahari this month, which should be great!!

Make Money

- inbox dollars: Back to $17

- coupons: I did target this month and saved a good amount on Adam's razors

- expo tv: Current balance: 14009(Goal: 60000)

- hit 4 pay: Current balance: $13---I think i'm giving up on this one, its too slow.
- beeZag: Current balance: Just cashed our $8 back to 690 (goal 8000)
- ATM: Things should be working well now.

Debt

- ipads and macbook- will pay off by next year this time. 12 mo no interest. -$215 I pay every month with Adams help

- Pay off credit card every 2 weeks--Doing well here too.

House

- Clean out closets (Jan,March,June,Sept)--I didnt do this in March. Adam didn't need to and Zaks ethier, so mine can wait

- Randi clean once a month-- We skipped her this month due to unexpected house expenses
- We need to sell our house.- this month, talk to Jody and get it up on the market
-Fix little things, paint touch ups etc (this is adam)

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
         $215/mo macbook ipads

         any auto repairs i'll pull from savings

         $180/mo cell phone and home internet

         $100/mo house stuff/decor etc

        =$1869

=$3205 total 

This is tight, but so far so good.

Career

- Clinical ladder (2010 & 2011)--continuing this years, should hear this month if I got last years

- Work wed/thurs sat/sun
- hopefully get a Nurse Facilitator Job!--GOT IT!! Got a $2 raise too!

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


Wedding
This month I added this category, this is what we have done so far:
Davids Bridal: $2.16 (swatches), $77.09 for bra under my dress
The Knot: $88.39, $132.62 gifts and our cake cutter and flutes
China: $232 dress, $60.35 (Tiara)
Pat Catans: $15.83 (sand stuff)
Church: $75 (precana)
Walmart: $21 (flower basket, ring bearer pillow)
Jelwelry: $707.85
Cake Topper: $22.96
Tux: $20 (they made me put down a deposit)
Honeymoon: $1261.98 (resort), $378.60, $378.60 (airfares)
Invites- $233.25

save the dates: $145

my shoes: $20
Cake- we have someone $375
= $4247.68

We still have tentatively:
Italian American Club (our reception)- $8500
A Crystal Clear Sound and video (our photographer, videographer, and DJ)- $3150
Liquor
Placecards
programs (i'm hoping my sisters can help me here)
Florist ($25/bouquet for girls), Lydia is doing mine on saturday 4/3 and I gotta get corsages still
Tip for Church-
Rehersal Dinner- we're thinking around $200 we're going to have it catered so everyone can come
Hotel room for us
gifts for our parents? not sure here
license to wed: July 10

Zachary Adoption: we have to get the ball rolling here in July 

Master List of April 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
  • Kalahari!
  • Zak starts baseball!
  • Zaks party
  • Get our house up on the market, probably in June
  • Start looking at houses, we got the ball rolling here too
  • Fix our basement wall & plumbing ($5000 here)
  • Sign Zak up for Camp!
  • expo tv every monday/friday
  • Get ATM set up--all set up!!
  • Day with Fr Ted
  • finalize florist/flowers
  • book a day with baker (when shes open)
  • call church musician
  • call pat catans
  • ask britt to make a template ceremony booklet
  • Call charles schwab on my IRA
  • call glasses company to exchange my glasses
  • Pay CC 4/7 and 4/21, transfer $$ 4/7 for savings
  
  
  

April Financial Goals

Expenses I expect this month:
$100- Zaks party
$400- Kalahari

Wedding plans this month:
-make ceremony booklet (hopefully)
-Get flowers for me
-Call pat catans on the girl's flowers
-book cake appt 
-arrange rehearsal dinner
-call musician for church

For my accounts according to mint.com:
Red is this month  Orange is last month

• PERSONAL
• Charles Schwab (high yeild checking):   $2346.77 $2372.28 up $25.51
• Charles Schwab savings:  $364.27 $491.59 up $127.32
• PNC   $2049.28 $3292.05 up $1242.77
• PNC  $10.01 same
• PNC  $10.05 $10.07 up $.02
• Capital One emergency:  $16,163.12 $16378.84 up $255.72
• Capital One Savings: $879.15 $879.22 up $.07
• Smartypig (our wedding fund):  $10974.44 $12508.75 up $1534.31 (I'm not contributing the first part of april)
• INVESTMENTS
• Charles Schwab Roth IRA (5/09 opened): $9717.78 $10146.66 up $428.88 
•  
• LHS retirement account: $4767.06 $4779.63 up $12.57
• OPERS retirement account(account now closed, opened Traditional IRA 5/10):  $10123.59 $10123.67 up $.12
• Zak's Etrade savings account:$2840.89 $2868.77 up $27.88
• Zak's CollegeAdvantage fund: $1472.12 $1470.10 up $2.02
• MISC
• ATM savings this month: We've had some issues with the code to go to my account. They are fixing it, and reimbursing us :)
• Speedy points:   143690 144052 up 368
• Swagbucks!:  1996 2182 up 186
• Spending this month: We're going to start adding the ATM money.

Total gained: $1651.41 (sad since I got a good return...)

March Goals in Life

FOR MARCH

Health

- 2 days a week do bootcamp at the Y, EA sports or run other days - Had a bum week...I have bootcamp tomorrow and then i'll be back in the swing.

Personal/Fun

- Zak library days once every couple weeks--Fridays after school are going well! I just need him to do better on his tests

- Meme's house once a week for dinners--So far so good, I love it!

- start a book--Look!! I have a list!
Vanishing Acts
The Next thing on my List
The Last Kiss
The Choice

- date nights/family nights 1 day a week--Sat/Sun--We're doing well here. We had Amy's boys over for a sleepover too!

Make Money

- inbox dollars: just cashed out $54 =)

- coupons: Didn't do much last month and probably not this month ethier, unless its NEEDED

- expo tv: Current balance: 12859 (Goal: 60000)

- hit 4 pay: Current balance: $13
- beeZag: Current balance: 3600 (goal 8000)
-ATM: (starts next month)

Debt

- ipads and macbook- will pay off by next year this time. 12 mo no interest.

- Pay off credit card every 2 weeks--Doing well here too.

House

- Clean out closets (Jan,March,June,Sept)--Crap I have this this month too??

- Randi clean once a month--end of the month...or beginning of next for Zak's party

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 tight, but so far so good.

Career

- Clinical ladder (2010 & 2011)--finish 2010 by Jan 31st--DONE!! Starting net years.

- Work wed/thurs sat/sun
- hopefully get a Nurse Facilitator Job!--GOT IT!! Got a $2 raise too!

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 March 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--all set up!!
  • Day with Fr Ted
  • finalize florist/flowers
  • book a day with baker
  • book Randi for early april
  • Pay CC 3/10 and 3/24, transfer $$ 3/10 for savings
  
  

March Financial Goals

Expenses I expect this month:

-We bought a new macbook pro and 2 Ipad 2s! $45mo each plus $100 for macbook. Adam needs a new one, so i'm buying a new one and giving him mine =)
-$370 for new cookware from cookworld. AWESOME stuff!!

Wedding plans this month:
-book a meeting with Fr Ted (he has our available dates)
-get guestlist uploaded to the knot (Adam....)
-book florist for real now ( I think i'm going with Pat Catans...)
-book a meeting with our cake lady ( I can't get ahold of the cheap one)
-finish invites (Molly's getting that done now :) )

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):  $1695.21 $2346.77 up $651.56
• Charles Schwab savings: $364.27 $364.27 same
• PNC  $1948.80  $2049.28 up $100.48
• PNC  $10.01 $10.01 same
• PNC  $10.04  $10.05 up $.01
• First Merit checking: closed!!
• Capital One emergency: $19147.65 $16,163.12 down $2984.53
• Capital One Savings:   $678.96 $879.15 up $200.19
• Smartypig (our wedding fund):  $9974.44 $10974.44 up $1000
• INVESTMENTS
• Charles Schwab Roth IRA (5/09 opened): $9697.19  $9717.78  up $20.59 (I didn't contribute, I will this month)
• LHS retirement account(stopped contributing 5/10, beginning april/mid march I will be): $4685.08 $4767.06 up $81.98
• OPERS retirement account(account now closed, opened Traditional IRA 5/10): $10123.50 $10123.59 up $.09
• Zak's Etrade savings account: $2813.31 $2840.89 up $27.58
• Zak's CollegeAdvantage fund: $1447.85 $1472.12 up $24.27
• MISC
• Coupon savings this month: I'm going to change this category to ATM savings next month
• Speedy points:   143241 143690 up 449
• Swagbucks!:  1866 1996 up 130
• Spending this month: We're going to start adding the ATM money.

Total gained: $951.75 :( Not much, but hopefully it will make us some $$ with ATM
Should be getting my tax refund this month and that can pay for a lot of things!! Washer and dryer, kalahari, Zachary's new bike (and mine), and his adoption (Don't want adam to drain his savings, so he will pay me back in installments, maybe it won't be as bad as we think)