improve my financial situation

Well, I must admit my main focus when I got my new job was:
1) being able to buy quilting fabric and take quilting classes freely without any “guff” from JW.
2) being able to take vacations again
3) NOT fighting over money or being humiliated over money issues anymore.

OK, so now that I’ve gotten SOME relief from these items, I must say I really do want to be responsible and start saving more money. OK, first we have to fix the roof, buy a fence, and pay off the credit card, blady blady blady, but eventually we should be able to start socking away most of it. Especially if I want to go back to school or in case I can’t keep this job forever because of the travel, etc. or whatever – it would be wise to build up another nest egg. Hopefully, we’ll both end up making more moolah and things will loosen up more at that point. For now I really do want to just get out from under this cloud so JW can relax a little more. zoinks.

Money woes seem to be over or at least at-bay. Never really did come up with a budget, much to my shame and criticism. Have money coming to me from: Char, C*MTA, WSgroup, etc.

Still have TONS to sell on ebay. Not getting anywhere with that.

OK, progress – I am meeting tomorrow with my client and will have some more dough coming in soon! Also can invoice C*MTA for the last newsletter I did.

- need to ask JW (AGAIN) to give me the budget info. and
- need to start keeping track of things somewhere!! where??? why does this boggle me so much? I suck. :[

KILLS me that this sounds oh so close to what John was saying, but: joining WW the other day made me realize that it puts things in so much perspective to focus on what you have and have good visual cues to tell you where you’re at as you’re spending it and how you’re spending it. This is what I need to do with my money… Say I gotta control $300 of X for the month, $300 at the top of a column of a spreadsheet. Everyday you gotta enter in what came out of that category and review at the end of the week. It’s all there in full color to see. I SO HATE DOING THIS!!! Why? I’m not sure.

So painful to even consciously acknowledge this!! AGH!!!!