Day 5: Hired!

Money spent: $0
Total amount in food eaten: $1.01

Breakfast – banana and oatmeal bread w/ peanut butter (banana = $.25, though Mike bought it; peanut butter = $.15)  I snacked on oatmeal bread and peanut butter throughout the day. 

Three meals a day are seriously not enough for me – I need to snack or I simply can’t function.  I need to keep this in mind for future grocery trips and think about how to get the best bang for my buck in healthy snacks – any ideas?

For lunch, I ate my leftovers from dinner last night  – ooh they were so good. ($0)

I don’t think I’ve mentioned before that my job does business with Honest Tea, so we get free iced tea (I’m taking PALATES of the stuff)!  I usually drink at least one, if not two a day.  They’re super low in sugar (some of the ones I drink don’t have any), organic, and the bottles are recyclable.   Did I mention anti-oxidants?

I went to visit the kids I used to nanny for after work – it was amazing to see them (it’s been like 7 or 8 months so I was missing them a lot).  Wendy, their mom, gave me an amazing homemade organic chocolate chip/banana/carrot muffin along with organic cranberry juice.  I’ll have to get the recipe since it seemed super easy and was DELICIOUS (plus, I’ve been severely lacking in chocolate this week so it was a welcome treat)

Wendy mentioned that they were looking for a weekend sitter, so I told her I’d be happy to take on a few hours!  I was a little hesitant at first because I sort of see it as a step backwards (I’d thought about mentioning to her that I might be interested in working if she needed help before I arrived), but upon seeing the kids I realized this is not only a good financial opportunity, but will also help me with my blog at work since just being with kids makes writing for them a hell of a lot easier and more fun.

The visit was nothing short of lovely and I came home with a happy, comforted feeling after a nice cuddle and a lot of good conversation.  My mom figured out that in order to pay my taxes, I could simply take on about 8 hours of extra work per week until it’s paid off.  Works for me!

I was feeling a little lightheaded and nauseous when I got back to Mike’s (combination of my lunch being kinda… gassy, and a little PMS, I think), so he made me another yummy cucumber sandwich ($.61)

I’ve so far heard from 6 or 7 of the organic companies I wrote to asking for coupons.  They all said something to the effect of “they’re in the mail!”  WOOT!

Lastly, I remembered the other day that my old Powerbook is still around.  I thought it might be the right time to wipe it and try to get a little money for it.  I doubt I’ll get much – it’s pretty old and I dropped it more than once, but who knows?  I thought I’d check out what they’re going for on ebay, and if it seems like a bad idea, I’ll take it down to Tekserv and see if they’ll buy it from me for parts.  Everything helps right now.

I’m gonna go ahead and second yesterday’s mention that my body and mind feel REALLY good right now, even with the short spell of nausea before dinner.