Better Days

TCOY

1. Eating healthfully and it feels good. Planning 3 meals and bedtime snack every day. Today is Day 3. Sweet corn on the cob, Girlfriend Chicken sautéed by Punch, oatmeal, salmon. Excellent coffee from Kicking Horse beans roasted in Canada--via Kings.
2. Walked around block with Sug when Punch got a bit crazy.
3. Watching my flower seeds and bulbs sprout. Looking at Figgy's beautiful collection of succulents in her room.
4. Nap.
5. Talked to my friend Sianne for parenting support [our girls are good friends].

$ MONEY SPENT OUT OF POCKET

• Instacart, Kings, with $10 credit because they keep getting my banana order wrong, with tip, $88.45. Includes lamb chops, garlic, feta, half and half, veggie burgers, brioche buns, more Kicking Horse coffee beans, vegan Provolone-style cheese, sliced Swiss cheese, chilled pickles [I'm finicky about pickles and got big dill spears the other day that I don't like, but family does], 2 Lady Mitchum gel deodorants and I forget what else.....
• Sweet Laurel, beautiful rose candle and paleo/vegan chocolate chips, steep shipping from sweet, dreamy California shop I'm eager to visit one day, $81. Very clear link here between out-of-control behavior from Punch and my effort to soothe myself with shopping.

Total daily spend: $169.45.

Ongoing monthly spend as of May 20: $2,191.71.

Avg daily spend: $109.59.

Still definitely high, shopping for comfort, to support small businesses and to avoid going to grocery stores--and to make healthy meals.

Keep an eye on/compare to previous months:

April: Total monthly spend: $2,143.19.
Avg daily spend: $71.44.

March--the effect of coronavirus quarantine and not working in NYC for now

Total monthly spend as of March 31: $1,916.15.

Avg daily spend: $61.81.

February

Total monthly spend as of Feb. 29: $2,480.34.
Avg daily spend: $85.53.