Heading to Bed, Day 3 off Sugar Road

It is 10:28 pm and I'm just stopping my work now. It's been busy, and tomorrow is another full day.

I may be wrapping up now, but that doesn't mean I didn't take breaks. I worked from about 9 am til now with interruptions to:

• See Figgy's latest moss drawings, so lovely. She showed me her notebook in the kitchen.
• Brew, pour and drink two coffees with whole milk.
• Let the plumber in to fix our stalled garbage disposal. The dishwasher was overflowing onto the kitchen floor. Fun. And caused by: My Flavahan's Irish steel-cut oats. I spilled a fair amount of the hard nuggets, uncooked, into the sink and they blocked the mechanism.
• Watch the season premiere of "This Is Us," which aired last night.
• Eat the other half of the luscious small chicken pie from The Pie Store.
• Tell Punch to put her helmet on! She was in the street on a skateboard with the boy next door, who was also on a skateboard or scooter. With his helmet. 
• Prod Punch to do her homework.
• Take an Uber with her to her weekly 4:15 pm Private Benjamin appt.
• Go to dinner at Marcel Bakery & Kitchen in town with her. Sit and break bread together. As usual, she loved what I got--the grilled shrimp over salad, pita on the side. So good. I shared. So did she.
• Walk back home--a good 25 minutes for me. Punch peeled off on another road to see some friends [3 nice boys] several streets over and then walk home before dark.
• Talk to Sis. Figgy met her in NYC for a planned jaunt to The Museum of Natural History. Love that--wish I could have joined. I love, tho, that godmother and girl meet up and have a special bond. They are both kind, smart scientists--and both have the red hair gene, though you would never know it now, since Fig changes her hair color so often.

$ MONEY SPENT OUT OF POCKET

• Marcel, dinner for Punch and me, including green salads and a hot chocolate for her, plus tip jar, $30.50.

TOTAL DAILY SPEND: $30.50.
RUNNING TOTAL FOR MONTH AS OF SEPTEMBER 25: $1,814.54.

AVERAGE DAILY SPEND SO FAR: $72.58.

Compare to last month:

TOTAL SPEND FOR MONTH OF AUGUST: $2,895.06. ⬆️

AUGUST AVERAGE DAILY SPEND: $93.39.  ⬆️

Big-ticket 🎟🎟 September spends:

🎟 Citarella at Hudson Yards, NYC, dinner; plus fresh fruit, etc. to bring home, $35.

🎟 Whole Foods, groceries, including present for Fig and big yellow mum plant, $84.

🎟 Whole Foods, groceries, including salmon for dinner and an iced coffee from the barista, $63.

🎟 ShopRite, groceries, laundry detergent etc., $50.

🎟 Sky Zone [worth it, Punchy went with her nice friends], $25.

🎟 Joyist, $29.

🎟 Kings, groceries, $46.

🎟 Piazza della Sole, comfy, high-end shoes, half-price, $90.
🎟 Gasoline, twice, $52.
🎟 Chinese lunch with Sis, $33.
🎟 Grocery shopping in Connecticut w Sis, $48.
🎟 CPAP dr. co-pay, specialist, $50.
🎟 Whole Foods again, including 3-pack soy candles, pound smoked salmon and Hydro Flask for Punch, $166.
🎟  Jackie's Grillette treat, casual dinner and soft drinks for three, plus tip, about $45.
🎟 Salon 212 blowout plus tips for job hunting Friday, $45.
🎟 Kings, prosciutto, fresh mozzarella for women's group platter, $58.
🎟 CVS, melatonin gummies, milk, Listerine, $30.
🎟 Kings, 1/2 gallon organic milk, 1/2 gallon oat milk, yellow baby potatoes, teriyaki sauce, Cabot shredded cheese, fresh black figs, 1.38 lb flank steak, etc, $48.
🎟 Kings again, groceries, $39.
🎟 Chez Josephine dinner with Candy and Allegra, $60.
🎟 Duane Reade, emergency makeup in Port Authority, $25.
🎟 Prize donation for pizza bake-off, 2 gift cards, total $30.
🎟 ShopRite, bake-off ingredients for girls plus a lot of groceries, $84.
🎟 Healthy Friday afternoon Joyist for Punch, Figgy and me, plus metal straw with cleaning brush, $33.
🎟 Kings, coffee beans x 2 plus other groceries, $34.
🎟 The Pie Store takeout family dinner, quart of carrot ginger soup, small chicken pie, 3 mini sausage rolls, $37.
🎟 Marcel Bakery & Kitchen, dinner with Punch on our walk home from town, $31.