Day 165: Lunch, Dinner, Gas, & Music Lessons

Posted on | February 13, 2008 |

Today is Wednesday which means it must be music day.  Well, it was supposed to be music day.  We went all the way to The Son’s cello lesson but the teacher never showed up.  I’m guessing we got our wires crossed — I’d mentioned that we needed to cancel next week’s lesson; maybe he thought I meant this week’s.  I called his cell but haven’t heard back from him yet.  I hope it was crossed wires and not some sort of emergency.

Cello Lessons — $131.25
This check covers 5 lessons and I’d intended to give it to the teacher at today’s lesson.  Since today’s lesson didn’t happen, I’ll have to mail the check instead.

Wendy’s — $3.84
The Son wasn’t too brokenhearted about the lack of the cello lesson today but he was very worried that he’d miss out on his weekly Wendy’s dinner.  I assured him that we’d still stop for his burgers.  Tonight he went for a medium vanilla frosty instead of a root beer.

Costco — $32.52
Tonight’s weather forecast calls for a drastic drop in the temperature and snow!  Ugh.  Since The Tank’s tank was just below the half-way mark, I decided to stop for a fill-up on the way home from orchestra rehearsal.  I pumped 11.872 gallons at $2.739 per gallon.  The odometer read 119,910.

School Lunches — $38.00
Today’s final expense was a check made out to the fellow who caters hot organic lunches at The Daughter’s school.  We allow her to average 2 lunches per week — though, I’ve got to tell you, as the one responsible for packing a lunch for the other three days, it’s awfully tempting to encourage her to exceed that number 

Each lunch is $4.75 and includes an entree, juice or organic milk, and a vegetable.  The Daughter filled out her form and selected 8 lunches that will cover us into the first week of April.  I wrote the check and The Husband will stick it in the mail tomorrow.

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