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This tracking-spending thing is dumb.

Today’s spending:

• Parking $17 (probably refundable from client but the “receipt” button was hidden so I don’t have one)
• Diet Coke $6
• Hot Chocky meeting with client $3.50
• Forgot to have lunch. As in, completely forgot. All I ate before 6pm was a banana before I left for work. And half a bottle of Diet Coke. And the aforementioned hot chocky. $0 but not the good kind.
• Claratyne to deal with MASSIVE hay fever attack. $30
• Barley sugars to soothe throat enough to chug Claratyne $4.50
• Bigster’s German lesson $50
• Misc groceries $30 but when I look now it is mostly junk food that I didn’t actually eat, just bought. Oops.

Oh yeah.

And the Christmas shopping that I did at 2:30am because I was still working.

Let’s not go there.

Meanwhile, in more exciting activities, I managed to shock MYSELF with something disgusting I said to a friend. Not sure I shocked her, though. Just me.

I am starting to wonder whether I need a 5-step program. I seem to buy more stuff every day – although it is all “necessary”.

Take today, for example. I bought:

• A diet coke. Actually, I bought two, because the second one was only $1 instead of $4.20. And I will drink it tomorrow. Total: $5.20
• Lunch for me and my mum. She was in town so we caught up for lunch. I had a salad plate and an orange/passionfruit mineral water, she had a panini and a flat white. Total: $24.50
• German textbooks for the Bigster. Bought online as I couldn’t find local copies (they were cheaper online). Total: $78.90
• 5 free books for my Kindle. Total: $0. Yay!
• A $500 “gift card” for the supermarket. As we get a 5% (or so) discount on these, I am trying to use them for grocery shopping. Technically, Fraser bought this, but it was at my instigation.Total: $477.
• Another $500 gift card for the other supermarket. Being shipped. Total: $478 (who knew that there were so many variants on “5%”?)
• Bigster’s remaining text books for next year. (Had ordered some online at a discount). This is a bit of a scam. If you want them in February, you have to order by December 16th and they take the money as soon as you pay. Total: $258.25

Total for today: $1321.85

Not included:

• Morning coffee (boss bought it) – approx. $3.50
• Tram fare (on smart card) – approx. $6
• Postage of Secret Santa gifts (Fraser’s) – approx. a lot.
• Bigster’s lunch (“Dad made me a DISGUSTING sandwich so I bought something.”)
• Paid cleaner $160 as Fraser forgot to leave money last week.

Then I got home and discovered evidence of an attempted breakin. Fortunately they did not get inside and did not steal anything, although there will be a Glazier’s bill tomorrow. There is something weird happening in our street – our neighbours had a sort-of breakin last night, and Fraser thinks that he heard our gate open around that time. It’s deadlock time!