This weekend, and the start of the week was good and bad (financially anyway). I went grocery shopping - spent $36.00 - everything I bought should cover for at least a week and a half, so that's good. Saturday night my boyfriend and I went out (we have been hermets lately). Not an entirely good thing for the budget, but I should still be on track as long as I reign in spending on snacks/coffee while at work. I don't know if it's the change in weather, but the last couple weeks I've gotten back into a habit of getting coffee at work. Rainy days, and dark mornings just make an afternoon coffee seem like a good idea

Other than that, things have been pretty mellow. I put a couple books on hold at the library, but I'm not sure when they'll be available. Did laundry, and cleaned up around the house. I paid my regular payment on my student loan, and am still waiting for the extra payment I made to go through.

I made a double batch of black bean and corn chowder for dinner tonight, and lunches for the week. I bought the makings for lentil soup too, but I realized that I don't have enough containers to freeze the lentil soup individually (the chowder is in individual containers and ready for lunches). So I just cut up all the veggies for soup, and will make it later on in the week.

Savings and Spending:

$100 student loan payment (in budget seperate from 'spending money')
$36 groceries
$29 dinner/drinks
$15 cigarettes

$105 left in budget