Friday & Saturday Spend

$ MONEY SPENT OUT OF POCKET, two days

• Duane Reade, small Vaseline and one 3 oz. dark chocolate bar, $10.
• Cafeteria lunch, $7.50.
• Berries from street fruit man, 3 half-pints raspberries, 1 half-pint blackberries, $8. Much less than ordinary price I pay at supermarket, and still in good fresh shape.
• One pint heavy cream from NYC corner deli, much more than ordinary price I pay, $5. I was just glad they had it so I could get everything on the way to work and put it in the fridge. I got off bus in rainstorm in the dark and whipped up berries and cream for Friday-night Christmas party.
• Refill subway MetroCard, $6.
• Bus ticket, about $7.85.
• Joyist, back to my Joyist, fresh hummus; tall cup strawberries w vegan chocolate sauce to bring Fig; one Hu dark chocolate mint bar, which I got for free, thanks to rewards card, $13.
• One slice pizza and one Diet Snapple, plus tip, $7.
• Little Daisy Bake Shop, five large, rich  brownies, each cut into 4 squares, to bring to CCD class tomorrow for holiday party, plus $1 tip, about $19.70.
• CVS, lavender epsom salts and toothpaste, $9.75.
• 212 Salon, Christina's best blowout, $35, and Kim's perfect pedicure, $35, this time with silver glitter over red, plus tips for Christina and Kim and Ani, shampoo person, $90.
• Money to put toward coat, PJs, sweater, scarf set for our adopted families, $75.

TOTAL SPEND OUT OF POCKET FOR 2 DAYS: $258.80.

ONGOING SPEND AS OF DECEMBER 14: $2,140.93.

AVERAGE DAILY SPEND: $152.92.

Friday-Morning Quarterbacking--& Dan’s Work on NewYorker.com

DAN'S ARTICLE
Hi. Please click link above for Dan’s report on how child abuse deaths are not accurately tracked. It’s important data to see the light. Proud of him [can’t lie, also wish I could write for them some day in some way].
I know this is a grim, very grim topic for this glitter-and-eggnog time of year. My list is filled with items like fresh white ice skates for Punch [unless her friend gives her a hand-me-down pair today] and perfume and art supplies for Figgy. But darkness in families, especially around Christmastime, is tangible and real. Dangerous and painful, sharp and caustic.
I say this from experience, and I know I’m not alone.
A prayer for peace this Christmas. My team [the tight-knit one I work on] "adopted" two NYC families--each consisting of a single mom and a teen girl--to gift with winter coats, hats, scarves, gloves, PJs. We are all going shopping for the items at lunchtime today. The $75 Dan and I are giving to that is the most meaningful gift on my long list.
Writing again what vanished last night:

TCOY

1. Ate a clementine at my desk. Tiny but mighty delicious and fragrant.
2. Ice water.
3. No donut when box at office.

$ MONEY SPENT OUT OF POCKET

• Bus, about $7.85.
• MetroCard, $3.
• Cathedral High School Christmas fair raffle tix, $20.
• Cafeteria lunch, $6.50.

Total daily spend:  $37.35.
Ongoing spend as of Dec. 12: $1,882.13.
Avg daily spend: $156.84.