Rainy Saturday in NYC

Good

• Morning support group. Wise, insightful friends. I've been early for many Saturdays now--not just one. I used to be really late, which only cheats me. Now I set my alarm for 7:30, so I even have time to shower.
• Late [2 pm] lunch at Coppola's on Third Avenue and 28th Street with Sis, Dan, Punch, my brother Will and Kelly.
• Excellent brushetta. Punchy remembered it from last year. We have to get the proscuitto, she said. Alice, you know, with the bread. Proscuitta. Pruschetta. I told her they had a proscuitto sandwich on the menu. But when she kept putting the a on the end, I figured it out. She also loved the tiramisu.
• Sis made Torrone, the nougat candy our grandma used to bring us as kids. Hers was too soft, she said, so she baked it in meringue form. Very good.

Bad

• Dan snags perfect free parking spaces in NYC but today, he thought he had paid for 4 hours. However, the ticket said 4 pm, we discovered when we got back to the car after 5 and found a $65 ticket tucked under the windshield wiper. 
• Sitting in a restaurant for 3 hours is probably hard for many young people and especially for our young person with ADHD--who only gets her medicine on schooldays. Especially hard without technology, but I am really against technology. Yesterday was not good in that regard. Thank goodness Figgy and her friend went ice skating last night and took Punch along--off the couch, away from the screens, onto the ice. We let P have Dan's phone for the last 20 minutes at the restaurant today.
• She took her skateboard out of the car after I forbade it and tried to skateboard with no helmet in NYC. The possibility of a sleepover was lost. Tears ensued.

Good night to you.

$ MONEY SPENT OUT OF POCKET

• Slice of veggie pizza, $4.
• Vesta Chocolate, 2 small cups dark Dominican Republic hot chocolate made with oat milk, one to bring Figgy at work. With tax, about $10.60.

Total daily spend: $14.60. [Dan pulled cash from HIS wallet at restaurant to pay our part. Even though we share expenses, of course, it's the ones for which I dip into my purse or pocket that I track here. And Sis/Auntie insisted on paying for Punchy's lunch today. Generous.]

Ongoing monthly spend as of Jan. 25: $2,694.75.

avg daily spend: $107.79.

COMPARE TO LAST 5 MONTHS:

december 2019 [Christmas and all that entails]

total monthly spend as of Dec. 31: $3,998.16. 

avg daily spend: $128.97. 

Total spend for November (30 days): $2,979.03. 

Average daily spend: $99.30. 

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TOTAL SPEND FOR OCTOBER (31 DAYS): $2,495.36.

AVERAGE DAILY SPEND: $80.49.

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TOTAL SPEND FOR SEPTEMBER (30 DAYS): $2,214.43.

AVERAGE DAILY SPEND: $73.81.

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TOTAL SPEND FOR AUGUST (31 DAYS/PLUS VACAY IN HERE): $2,895.06. ⬆️

AUGUST AVERAGE DAILY SPEND: $93.39.  ⬆️