$$: All The Usual Suspects

Ah, another day in sub­ur­bia; another day in the life of a sub­ur­ban wife and mother.

Phys­i­cal Ther­apy — $25.00
We started the day with a phys­i­cal ther­apy ses­sion for The Son.  His bro­ken clav­i­cle is heal­ing nicely and PT is com­ing along nicely too.  The ther­a­pist gave The Son sev­eral addi­tional Range-of-Motion exer­cises as well as some strength­ing exer­cises.  He’ll go in again on Wednes­day and from there we’ll eval­u­ate whether or not we’ll do any more appointments.

Kroger Phar­macy — $10.00
While The Son was at PT, The Hus­band and I ran to pick up my syn­throid pre­scrip­tion.  We’re in the final count­down, now, until my long-awaited post-surgery appoint­ment with my endocri­nol­o­gist.  He’s kept me on my pre­vi­ous thyroid-replacement dosage this whole time (since Sep­tem­ber 22) and I just can’t take it any more.  I’m so incred­i­bly hypothy­roid; the fatigue lit­er­ally burns.

Nat­ural Gro­cers — $44.56
Our last quick stop on the way home where The Hus­band will drop us off before going back to work, leav­ing me with­out a vehi­cle for the rest of the day.

• Apple­gate sliced roast beef — $5.19
• Apple­gate organic smoked turkey — $5.49
• 2 Apple­gate Farms frozen chicken pot pies — $3.55/ea.
• Amy’s frozen broc­coli cheese pot pie — $2.89
• Amy’s cheese pocket — $2.45
• FiberS­mart 200ct fiber cap­sules — $19.39

I also put in a $300.00 auto­matic trade order with Share­builder. First, I trans­fered funds between my WaMu on-line sav­ings account and my WaMu free check­ing.  Then I put in the order on Share­builder.  Assum­ing all goes as it should, Share­builder will pur­chase $300’s worth of GE stock for me tomor­row.  The plan is for this to be my only Share­builder trans­ac­tion in Decem­ber.  I’ve decided to make larger, slightly less fre­quent auto­matic invest­ments in my Share­builder account to cut down on my trans­ac­tion fees ($4 per trade).  I’ll include the $300 expense in tomorrow’s spend­ing total as it won’t actu­ally be invested until then.

Related posts:

1. $$: GE Stock, Bal­let Tick­ets, & Cell Phone
2. $$: Paint & an Invest­ment Funds Transfer
3. $$: Dec 8 — Med­ical Expenses and Christ­mas Gifts
4. $$: Gro­ceries, Invest­ment, & House Paint­ing Services
5. $$: Phys­i­cal Therapy