I’m exhausted.  So tired, in fact, that I was tempted to just go to bed without posting today’s expenses.  But I’ve come this far, I can’t let something so small as a very long, very busy, and exhausing day break my resolve to keep at this daily $$ blogging thing.

 So here’s the quick rundown:

I returned the one picture frame and two shadow box frames to T.J.Maxx this morning for a $45.21 credit.  When I got the frames home and showed them to The Husband we agreed to just give his adult kids loose photos of our kids and let them frame them, or scrapbook them, as they choose.  I was happy with our decision and happy to put that money back onto the credit card.  Unfortunately, I forgot to take the Lee dungarees back at the same time.  The Son liked the flannel jammie bottoms but, as I had guessed, he rejected the carpenter-style denims.  The fabric was too heavy and stiff.

I stopped at Wild Oats this evening and spent $10.14 on 6 packages of Wild Oats tortillas and an Odwalla Strawberry C Monster.  I was very much aware that this was my second “luxury” drink purchase in a week but it had already been a very long day of driving here and there and everywhere in snow and ice and slush and I still had a full evening ahead of me.  So I caved.

After practice this evening the son asked if I’d buy him a Subway sandwich on the way home.  He was going to be home alone for the entire evening and there honestly wasn’t much in the way of food he could easily make himself so I agreed.  Actually, I managed to talk him into compromising and getting a slice of pizza and a tray of sushi at Wild Oats because we were header there anyway and I was in a time crunch but Wild Oats didn’t have any pizza and only lame-o sushi left so I told him to forget it and we’d do Subway.  So we picked up a footlong turkey and ham sandwich on wheat for $6.34.

I had a no-expense transaction as well — while The Son was at practice, I ran back up the street to the mall where I exchanged the green J.Crew t-shirt for a light blue one (turned out that one of the shirts I bought off eBay was green and The Son definitely doesn’t have need for more than one green t-shirt).  The exchange was straight across the board so no expense involved other than the gas it took to run the errand.

I also happened to have three separate cash transactions today (that’s more than I have in a typical week).

First, I stopped by the bank and did something I almost never, ever do — I did a cash withdrawl.  Usually I make all cash withdrawls from The First Bank of Daddy.  That’s when I need some carrying-around money.  This was different.  I wanted $50 cash to give as a tip to The Son’s cello teacher.  The Husband would have given me the cash but I would have felt obligated to explain what it was for.  It’s not that he would have objected, per se, but, well, what he doesn’t know won’t piss him off either  ;-)  The Husband’s not a big tipper and he tolerates expense of music lessons, orchestra fees, and instrument rentals, but they aren’t his top priority.  As The Husband likes to say, “discretion is the better part of valor.”  I would never lie to my husband but you don’t get to be my age and have a relationship last as long as ours has without the judicial use of discretion.

Next, I had to feed the meter $0.50 for 1/2 hour parking so I could go in and fetch The Son after practice.

And finally, The Husband and I were charged $8.00 total for admission to The Daughter’s tournament game.