Football.

My younger daughter is off to a Fighting Illini versus South Dakota Jackrabbits game in Champaign/Urbana with friends. Thank goodness her blue and orange was clean, as this was a last-minute ingitation! Long day for her, leaving at 8:00 AM, game at 11:00 AM, plus her own volleyball game at 8:00 PM. Go ILLINI!

And DH let me know that the Bears game is tomorrow at Noon. I'm off to a shower anyhow with the girls, and he requested a run past the store for "proper" snacks - I guess that means cheese popcorn and root"beer" for their own soiree. Go BEARS!

Back to school. Which means my tenant called to say her BTS expenses were so great that she cannot pay her rent this Friday, and will pay NEXT Friday. She was reasonable in that she reimbused us the $40 that DH spent last weekend to change two locks.

Our list of extraneous expenses continues to grow - older daughter needs new Irish Dance shoes. She checked the used bin for 4.5s at the studio, but since she is on toe now, nothing worked. Bless her for trying, the cost will be $150. Oldest son wants to join Band, playing the trumpet. I've looked into options for getting at trumpet, and found a local place with a "rent to own" option for $7 more than the rental fee. Since he is a creative child and loves art, I'm thinking this is something he will try, like and stick with. Factor in an additional $75 a month for that. Our extraneous fund of $350 will certainly be eaten into this month ... and next month too looking at other things like car registration/birthday party for boys/etc.

I will have to sit down and rework the budget this week coming up. I am at the point where we pay all of the utilities and bills for the month by the 3rd (because that is the last autodraft date for EFTs), I like it that way, too. DH found out that his severence would be 10 weeks if he loses his job, that makes it a bit easier to plan on how to use those funds.

Anyhow, that was a bit of a ramble. Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!