Putting on my big girl panties and dealing with the unchecked credit card use I've been racking up since the spring. Just opened a new 0% card and transferred a balance, so I have 15 months to get that paid off.

I have another balance, but I do not want to open another new account, so I am looking for info on a card I have but never use to see what rate they have for transfers. If nothing better than what the current card is then I will just draw up a payment plan for it and get busy.

Bottom line is NO SPENDING.

giving myself gold stars for taking coffee today, eating frozen dinner for lunch and leftovers for dinner. Cutting the eating out budget is the single easiest way for me to save - it is where most of my money goes. Coffee for tomorrow is already made and new cold brew has been started. 2 frozen dinners are in work freezer to get me through lunches for the rest of the week and I cooked up turkey burgers tonight to serve as dinners. BOOM! Take that shame spiral in my head - stupid low-level depression I will fuck you up with my fierce stubbornness and daily applied citalopram.

Third trip to IKEA in a week. But I did a blanket inventory, and did not have sufficiently warm enough blankets of the right size for the new bed to prevent dad from stealing the covers and pissing mom off. And because I am OVER multiple trips up there, I went a little insane. New desklamp for the new office (we all hate fluorescent overheads, my current officemate gets to keep current lamp, it's gonna be dark soon,) glass bowl for salads because finally one like my beloved one ( just in case,) new mattress pad for futon cause current is dying, under bed boxes to store new and old blankets, throw to keep fur off the nice quilt and FINALLY, a memory foam mattress topper for MY bed because I cannot justify a new mattress for me, but I'm loving the new spare, so it was going to happen eventually, and did I mention, three trips in a week? (Because my car could not contain all of that in even just 2.)

I'm sooooo nesting for winter. Now if only I could get a hold of a roofer.

That sounds pretty kickass, Sara!

I got a haircut. I really like the haircuts she gives but Lordy--first of all it's at least half an hour away. And then she's always running late. So my 5pm haircut, I left the house at 4:15, and didn't leave the salon until 7pm. Ridiculous! Then I stopped and bought several different marijuana edibles to try. Because so far they just put me to sleep...but it's a very nice sleep at least? And I tweaked my neck somehow earlier today, so..heating pad and brownie.

That's my main reason for not going to a salon and getting my hair cut, even though I want it short again. It's expensive and it takes so much time. But I want it short and I want to go to a darker color, the red hair is pretty but it doesn't feel like me. So I guess I need to pencil in a few hours and go.

see it is stuff like that that keeps me going to my crazy Bundy supporting free-citizen whatever lady. It's a good cut, It's $40 and I am in and out in less than an hour usually.

My last haircut and color was in December. At the time I intended to keep it up. Hah!

We went to a John Mellencamp concert tonight it was ltc's birthday gift to TCG. It was lots of fun. The opening act was Cassie Carter, June Carter's daughter, who was excellent. Tomorrow morning is going to come way too early.

I just listed stuff on Craigslist for the first time. What are the chances I'll actually get this stuff out the door before new furniture arrives on Friday?

I get my hair cut pretty much every 2 months. I'm booked 2 appts out. But I have short hair, I can only make Saturday appts, my stylist is almost always full booked, so we do what we do. We're now up to $50 plus tip, but I'm fine with that, after almost 2 decades of letting her do what she wants and being pleased with the results.

I swear sara and I must be seeing the same hairstylist, thousands of miles apart. The only difference is that I've had the same stylist for only a decade.

My stylist is in a salon in a department store at the mall across the street from my old job. So it was SUPER easy to get my hair trimmed once every 4-6 weeks. But now it's a good 20-25 minutes away, and the cut grows out well, so I just trim my own bangs and *intend* to get it cut but then let months go by.

My last haircut and color was in December. At the time I intended to keep it up. Hah!

My last cut and color was April, before I went to Chicago for work. But I got about 3 inches cut on Saturday and I am SO happy with it. And I intend to get it colored again before Thanksgiving so that it looks all shiny for the holidays. We'll see.

I've had the same stylist for only a decade.

I've had the same stylist for 23 years, since I got out of college. Also the same primary-care doctor. Neither of them are allowed to ever retire. (I suspect they're both 10 years older than me or less, so they should be working for quite a while longer.)