2009-02-20

well, yesterday my alternator decided to die. no warning really. i am very thankful that my husband is a mechanical genius. really i am. i have no clue what a shop would have cost and i'm glad i don't have to find out. the part alone cost a fortune! i can't imagine having to pay someone labor on top of that.

when ryan first looked up how much the part was gonna cost it was $129. but when he pulled the old alternator he found out that we have a bigger one and therefore needed a different one than the $129 one. the one we needed was $192. what could we do? we HAD to have it. i HAVE to take bray to school and back. so he went to the store to get it. when he was at the register he made a comment to the cashier that the part was really expensive. he said the old man running the register must have felt sorry for him or maybe it was just his lucky day cause the guy gave ryan his employee discount. 20% off. so it wound up costing $166.42 as opposed to $192 + tax. so hey, not as good as $129 but still better than $192. plus NO LABOR charges!

sadly, that was money that was going into the emergency fund.

yesterday, i did eat out for lunch. i normally have a slimfast for breakfast and i forgot to take it with me. i had a sewing class until 12:30 and then i had to pick up the kids at 2. when i got on this side of town, around 1, i was really hungry and shaky. i decided to stop and get lunch because i didn't think i could make it until 2:30--which is when we would get home after picking up the kids from school. it's a good thing i stopped and ate. because immediately after i picked up the kids is when the alternator went out. and we didn't make it home until 5:30!

i did spend $10 at the sewing class. i bought some strips of fabric. there are a couple of birthdays coming up and these strips will be perfect for the outfits i want to make. if i can make 4 outfits and one quilt out of these strips for gifts then that's great! $10 for 5 gifts ain't too shabby. LOL

this morning, bray cleaned out the rest of the breakfast food so i bought indyanna and boston a delux big breakfast at mcdonald's. they split it. it still chaps my hide though. for what i spent on one meal, i could have bought a weeks worth of frozen pancakes for them. PLUS syrup! for lunch we are eating here!

TOTAL SPENT YESTERDAY: $185.36
auto zone $166.42
hoss bbq $8.13
sew southward bernina $10.81

TOTAL SPENT TODAY:
mcdonald's $4.86