October 21

$44 College Books

$17 Lunch Out

$11 Postage

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I decided to just go to a deli for lunch.  It was over-priced and not any better than just bringing a sandwich from home.  I realized as I did the math of buying everything myself (most of which I already had) and having the teen boy at home to eat through everything.  I think this is a more useful splurge if you don't have kids at home.  It took me a while to find a place (like I've said, we don't eat out much) and I don't expect to go back.  My favorite (more reasonable) deli used to be in the same location. 

My plan was to get a larger sandwich and just spread out over two days.  I still think it was over-priced but that was the plan.  & I think I will have enough dinner leftovers for the rest of the week.

MH ran to the postal store on the corner and mailed MM(21)'s ballot to him.  

MM(21) texted me about some required textbook for his college class.  I don't know what to do with that.  It's very late in the quarter.  Because it was in the college portal, I just paid it.  (Otherwise, he pays for his own books and supplies, which hasn't amounted to much.)  I usually pay lab fees and so on (that's just added to tuition).  But then I also pull from his college fund.  This expense might just slip through and we might cover it.  Along the same lines, I realized as I went in to pay that I couldn't pay by credit card without a fee.  For the smaller charge, I just chose to pay the fee.  Generally something I would never do but it's a 2% cash back card and my fee ended up being about a quarter (considering the credit card reward will cover the first 2%).  

Work was a long and tiring day and I stayed until 5:30.  Ugh!  Just one of those days.  My internet didn't work and I spent a long time troubleshooting that.  I took apart and fixed the cat's water fountain in the evening.  (It felt very similar to taking apart my work phone and figuring out the power cord was dead.  I don't use the phone much - the internet runs through it - and I will get a new cord in a couple of days.)  Thankfully I know enough about computers that I just figured it out.  So I started the day and ended the day that way.  I am usually pretty energetic on Mondays and I thought I'd finish weekend chores, but I was exhausted.  On the plus side, I was very assertive about going to bed early.  & I got a really good night's sleep.  (It's relative and I usually do sleep well, but I need more like 9 hours to function well.)  I might just embrace the later schedule this week re: time change coming up.  

Edited to add:  Still hanging in there.  Thought I would abandon tracking this month because my mom ended up in the hospital.  But she's home now.  Fingers crossed.  I was out of town for about 28 hours.  Will see how Sunday goes...