**BM started soccer practice yesterday.

It works out. The practice is actually right down the street from our gym. Yesterday, we all went (out of curiosity) but I didn't see much. They weren't doing much, and so LM and I went to the gym for a bit.

Practice is long enough that I probably could drop off BM, walk to the gym, work out almost an hour, and pick him back up. So, this could work out well.

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**While at the gym, dh told me he thought the ice cream place over there had discounted ice cream on Tuesday nights. I looked around 6:30pm, and sure enough, $1 ice cream scoops from 6-8pm. I didn't look that carefully, but I don't think anyone was there.

SO, we went over there after practice. AND, the line was out the door and around the corner. We actually got in line, which was insane. Clearly we would be there all night. I told dh, "Um, Rite Aid????" The kids were upset about this. I had never eaten this place's ice cream. But Rite Aid is always something like a buck for a scoop, and their ice cream is DIVINE. If this place was better, maybe its best I didn't know.

Finally talked the rest of them into it - by pointing at the clock. It was almost 8pm!

So, we get to Rite Aid, and there are people with ice cream all over the place. Some, PAYING for their ice cream. & then, we get to the ice cream, and the place is "CLOSED FOR CLEANING." Seriously? What did we miss it by? One minute??? Gah.

So, they were selling ice cream tubs for $2.50. After much negotiations, we settled on some strawberry cheesecake ice cream, as well as some 50-cent ice cream sandwhiches for the kids.

Of course, when we pay, we are told the ice cream is $3.50. How obnoxious. There was nothing on the label that said "card members only," or anything like that.

So then dh grumbles all the way home that he will never buy anything there again. (But ice cream scoops, anyway).

Thus, was our adventure.

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I need to look closely at August tonight. I do know we spent way too much.

I was doing some financial chores this morning, but didn't have enough time to look at August. I was updating all our interest for August, and transferring savings, etc.

I was able to transfer money into my higher interest online savings. It had been a while. Seems like medical bills and big maintenance bills, here and there. A luxury TV purchase thrown in for good measure.

So, my money has been coming out of savings about as fast as I put it in. Which means, I haven't made any deposits into my higher interest savings in a while!

BUT, today I transferred $1k to savings. Phew. Let's hope I can keep this momentum...