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NYC is expensive!

December 7th, 2005 at 04:03 pm

I've been working in the city every day this week (usually I'm here only 2 days), and it's been tough and expensive! It's about 20 miles more each day to where I park (=1 gal of gas), and $20/day for parking. Plus the commute is about 1 1/2 hours each way instead of 1/2 hour to our place in NJ. On top of all that, I've had to put my daughter in the afterschool program 2 extra days this week (@$18/day) because I can't get back in time to pick her up at 3:00. So it's coming out to be an extra $80 or so out of pocket Frown. I'm going to ask my boss if I can go back to the NJ office on Friday...I don't think it should be a problem...

As long as I'm in NY today, I'm going to go back to the used bookstore again, and write down a bunch of the ISBNs. But instead of buying and shipping them right away, I'm going to wait until I get the payment for the first order, just to make sure I don't have any problems. (The second box of books is ready to go to the post office this afternoon).

I have a few housekeeping things to do today...I need to write a few Christmas Cards for hubby that weren't included in the first round. MIL asked me to order a present for her boss, so I need to take care of that. I need to make a few doctor appointments...it looks like we'll be on track to use up our Health FSA this year. We have a few hundred left right now, but I need to pick up my glasses ($95) and hubby needs to get his. If I don't get the doctor appointments in, there are always some OTC medecines we can pick up.

I also need to grocery shop...probably tonight. I have a 20% of certificate from ShopRite, so I scoured their ad from Sunday, checked out what coupons I have on hand, and feel like I can do a pretty good job of stocking up, and also buying the meat we need for the three holiday dinners we're hosting. If I go tonight, I can leave the kids with Hubby, which would help immensely.

That's about it for today. Still plugging along on my goals for next year. Started reading "Get Clark Smart" by Clark Howard. I breezed through it once before, and I like it so far.

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