May is Wrapping Up.

I may sit down and pay the June bills tonight. If not tonight, this weekend I guess. See where we are at.

The credit card sits at about $3k right now with vacations and such. So today was the first time this month I sat down and looked at where we were at, for May. Hard to guage just looking at the balance.

I guess saturday is the last day of the month, but credit card closes Tuesday, so I usually sit down over the last weekend of the month and pay all the bills for the following month, and guess what the credit card will be, to see where we are at.

But I was actually pleasantly surprised:

$2800 card balance (today)
-600 Disneyland
-400 Camping Trip
-250 cash rewards to apply (Disneyland)
-550 Medical bills
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$1000
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We usually budget around $1300 to credit card, monthly. So we are well on track for the month.

I have to pay some phone bills and dh is driving to the Bay Area twice this weekend, so it will add up fast. But easy enough to hit $1300 from the monthly budget.

The vacation and medical bills are paid from their respective funds.

Well, a sigh of relief. Dh took the kids out to Quizzno's yesterday for dinner and I was not pleased. Seemed a bit unnecessary - we ate out so much this month, with our vacation and all.

Oh yeah, the beauty in this is I have a couple of hundred dollars of cash sitting in the checking account, to apply to vacation. Which means I will probably use $800 of our stimulus to our short-term savings (vacation) and $1k to mid-term. IT was to be the other way around. So, woohoo!

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Which leads me to my rant on people.

I have been rather anti-social of late.

I have this terrible habit of forgetting negative things rather quickly. This probably serves a useful purpose most times (I rarely dwell on the bad). BUT I am so annoyed at myself. I had completely forgotten why I had gotten so anti-social.

I got so fed up with the groups I have been hanging around with. I am sick of planning things 10 years in advance because everyone's calendar is so full, and then being stood up anyway. Completely sick of it.

I ranted about this much in the past.

I decided this year with tax season and then BM hitting kindergarten that I would kind of lose my old circles and find new ones at school. Seemed logical anyway since BM would probably make his own friends there, etc. So I was just kind of starting fresh this year.

I completely had forgotten this game plan though and had been feeling rather anti-social.

We haven't lived here that long and I just don't know that many people. Plus I know it's two sided. With work and family I have little time to cultivate friendships. So I have just been focusing on my family more. Which was a very conscious decision at some point.

I just forgot.

Anyway, I did invite a friend for a playdate at McDs Wednesday, rather last minute, and she told me it was Bunco night. I hadn't gotten the e-mail. The group had dissolved and she has been trying to pick up the pieces. This is the only friend I am probably not peeved at, at the moment.

So I said, sure. I was actually quite excited for a night out and was happy to see some of the ladies. The bunco group, I don't think I had much issue with. It was a good group.

BUT when I signed up there were only 3-4 people signed up. Obviously not enough to play bunko. I figured we would just hang out.

So I arranged my whole day for this outing and around 5:00 I checked the meetup website on a whim. The whole thing had been cancelled because we didn't have enough to play.

Well, duh. I could have told you that when I was invited.

I was just REALLY peeved. I remembered why I had dropped out of all my meetup groups to begin with. Inconsiderate people.

Anyway, I thought of calling her and seeing if she wanted to get together anyway. Probably what I should have done. But it was clear to me the answer was no. I couldn't believe she hadn't told me personally, when there was only like 2 of us to call. So I was just annoyed.

What I took as a "let's hang out" was a, "I am desperate to pull together 12 people at the last minute. But if I can't do that I have other plans." That was how I read it anyway.

So, friends. Who needs 'em?

I think mostly I miss just having someone to call last minute and hang out with. But in this day and age people are far too busy for that. That is one thing I don't like about our lifestyle here. I wish I knew some more "slow," laid back people. That's what I really miss about my friends back home, and past friends who have moved elsewhere cheaper. Bummer...

Anyway, I was stood up and didn't know it until after the kids had eaten. So I treated myself to a Togo's sandwich. But sounded divine after talking to dh.

Last night I tweaked my gyoza sauce. Dh is taking the kids to drop BM off with grandma for the weekend, and I am on my own for dinner. I was thinking of having some gyozas. I like what I came up with - dj's sauce did not have enough spice or vinegar. Well, we'll see what I think tonight.

We are going to pick up BM at the half-way point Sunday. But this is actually all dh's Mother's Day gift. He is helping them with some work on their house. Otherwise, no, I can't say we would be making those drives this weekend. Hard to justify the gas, otherwise.

Though it's equal part gift to the rest of us. LM gets along time with us, and we get a break from the wild one. So, should be a nice weekend.

Oh yeah, and I have a seminar tomorrow so this is a rather short work week for me. Phew.