Hi all it's been approx. a month since I've blogged because I've been dealing with a lot of crap recently. The boyfriend and I have broken up sadly but I won't go into it here, it's just the regular old feelings of sadness and all of the stuff that goes into breaking up with your best friend. Sucks but life is going to go on. Also I had to have a back tooth pulled which is still sore and I wish I had known how bad it would hurt so I could've taken some days off. I know from now on but I just wish the dentist would have told me this might would happen.

Anyway onto better things, my sister moved back into my parents house and things are a little cramped. But I think I may be in a much better place to move out later this year so that's a major goal for me. I also mentioned in one of my past blogs that I was going to try and make an extra thousand dollars of money to save. I've been working really hard on that and decided to post my results finally.

Tally on extra thousand:
1. Sold an old working laptop that I wasn't using anymore. I now use an Acer laptop that my dad got me and I love it. I loved the old laptop too and I genuinely hated getting rid of it since I had it for so long but I'm trying to look at things from the point of view that if I'm not using it at all and haven't been for a long time I might as well get rid of it by selling or giving it away. I had asked my now ex-boyfriend how much it might be worth and he said he didn't think I could get anything for it because of it being old (him and his negativity) but I could try for $100. I put it on Craigslist and ended up with $75. Looks like someone did think it was valuable enough to pay for it!

2. Received an unexpected check from my health insurance company because my doctor was overcharging me or something. Check was $125.00.

3. Overtime at my job. I received about $12.

So the total so far is $212! That's on top of my emergency fund too, so I'm excited to keep building upon this. I will also count up my change and extra dollars as well and possibly add that in later.

Tomorrow I have a TON of things I need to get done including pay more on my car. Last time they didn't take any interest out, maybe because I've paid so much in advance? I was kind of confused on that since they were taking out interest before and I was paid ahead then too. Whatever if it all is going to principle then that's awesome. Total on that after tomorrow is going to be $1650. Getting so close! Also I'm going to a consignment store and attempting to sell some clothes, if they take even one thing then that's a plus and more money for my personal challenge. I'm also going to try and get money back from my technician certification (that might be a story in itself) and send off the forms to reclaim some FSA money. Then I'm going to dump a ton of stuff off at the Goodwill. It will hopefully be a very productive day and a great long weekend for me!

Couldn't think of a better title to this post but the one that's there about sums it up.

First things first, I have an old Dell laptop that has been sitting around forever collecting dust. It definitely works and is functional but it is large and clunky and heavy. I still like it though and think it's a good computer, but I have a netbook now that I absolutely love. So I thought maybe I should just sell the old one because I never use it. I was kind of keeping it around for the cd drive but I now have access to a separate cd drive if I need to use one so what's the point? You know what the stupid thing is? I'm saying all of this because I'm sad I'm selling it and I feel like writing this will explain myself (possibly to the computer? lol). So the other day I put it up on Craigslist and it got a few offers which were all the same amount: $75. Since that seemed the most anyone would give up I went with the first email and it seems he wants it for his kids. At least it might be going to a good home. I am meeting him somewhere outside my home Sunday. I feel like I'm giving up a pet!!

Secondly my mom and dad's dryer went out the other day. They were looking at used dryers for sale until they told me and I was like "Wait, [insert boyfriend's name here] has an extra washer and dryer just sitting at his house and the dryer works! And bf has a truck to get it here with! Perfect!" So that was pretty lucky. My dad even offered gas money but bf wouldn't take it. Dad thought it would be nice to offer anyway. That saved a bunch of the parent's money. It's an older dryer but it works so no one's complaining here!

Third, my company owes me $100 from when I had to file paperwork for pharmacy technician certification. I was told it would get put into my bank account through direct deposit "quickly" but that was two months ago. I am not in dire need of this money as I might have mentioned in a past entry but you all can probably understand that I would like my money back if it was promised to be reimbursed.

Fourth, car debt is down to $2001. Weird thing is that when I paid it this last time they didn't take any interest out of it. It might be because I've paid so much on the car that my next actual payment date is posted for June. However if this is true than I wonder why I've been paying interest for quite a few months now when the posted payment date was 2 or 3 months later. This is totally confusing me. I'm not complaining about the not paying interest part, but I just don't understand why they didn't charge me any at all. I should ask next time and hope I don't mess up a good thing, lol! Anyone have any insight?

Thanks as always for reading, hope I didn't bore anyone too badly this time!!