I was told it could be a little bit before I hear back from Sam's Club because they need to figure out when to fit me in for my orientation. If I haven't heard back by this time next week, I'll call back and find out what's going on.

I have to exercise patience toward wanting my vacation to be here. As much as I want it to be here now, I really don't have the money for it right now. Thus the need to exercise patience.

The forecast is predicting a slight chance of rain in a couple days ... I hope they're right. It's been over a month since we've had any kind of measurable rain. It did sprinkle a little bit a couple weeks ago during the weird storms we had, but it was only enough to make the ground wet. By early morning there was no evidence that anything had happened overnight. So it would be nice if it actually rained a bit.

I'm going to be working on an eating plan starting tomorrow. I spent about $50 on food to get me through the next two weeks until payday. I'll still be buying my breakfast sandwiches from Safeway, but I have food for lunch and dinner and snacks. So other than the sandwiches {which are $2 a piece} I will not be spending any more money on food until I get paid again. If this works out as well as I'm hoping, I may continue this plan until further notice. Spending $100/month on food for just me is definitely reasonable. I'm sure if I just stuck to ramen noodles and crappy junk foods, I could probably spend less money, but I'd like to eat stuff with at least some nutritional value to it. This does, however, mean no shopping at Trader Joe's any time soon. It sucks because the food is good, but it's more expensive and when I'm trying to save up, I have to cut back a bit.

Until tomorrow. . .

I think that is a totally reasonable goal. Good luck!
» Zanzibar on 2013-07-31 02:46:22

Aww, I would be sad if I couldn't shop at Trader Joe's. I think they have good prices for a gourmet grocery store, but I will admit that compared to like, Safeway (and Walmart I guess... -hissssss-), they're probably more expensive.
» randomjunk on 2013-07-31 06:20:07

in my area, it's cheaper to shop at trader joe's. i went to another store the other day and it ended up costing about $100 for what we could get at trader joe's for about $40.
» thaitanic on 2013-07-31 06:27:59

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