Weekend Recap

Thinking back over the weekend, I did more than just work on the house. Here’s a brief recap:

Friday Night: A friend of mine is a rockstar and his band recently got their first record deal. So Friday night we all went out to their cd release concert. The show was supposed to start at 9, but the first band didn’t begin to play until 10:30. By the time the second band began to play, I was getting sleepy. My friend’s band didn’t go on until 12:30 and by this time I was barely awake. One of the guys that rode with me needed to be at work at 7 the next morning and so we ended up only staying for three songs. Yeah, I know….but seriously, I was exhausted. I’m old!
Expenses: $5 cover charge, $5 for the band’s EP, $3 for photobooth photos with a friend.

Saturday: We met with the realtor Saturday morning and then spent most of the day cleaning the garage and moving stuff out there. We ordered pizza for lunch. Saturday night a friend came over to take me out to dinner for my birthday. We had some great Thai food and ended up renting a movie from the Redbox (I love it) and she made me cupcakes.
Expenses: $12 for pizza.

Sunday: More moving and cleaning. While cleaning the house, I heard my friend’s band on the radio. It was a surreal experience. I had leftover Thai for dinner.
Expenses: $0

Monday: Monday was my birthday and I woke up feeling even older than I did on Friday night — stiff and sore from moving stuff all weekend. Monday involved more cleaning (best birthday ever! j/k). You would think that my house was just an absolute pigsty, but that’s not the case. We had some demolition work to do (taking down a wall we built) and the resulting clean-up took a long time, not to mention all the other general cleaning that had to be done. That night I went out for birthday dinner with family and it was a lot of fun. As for gifts, I received some money from my parents along with a gas gift card* (very handy!) and a Chipotle gift card* (very tasty!). One brother got me a Cub Foods gift card* (this will help when I begin my old grocery routine) and the other brother got me a membership to the Sovereign Society (check it out, it’s weird!). This was actually a hilarious gift; it was totally back-handed because I know he wanted to join but didn’t have a good excuse to, so he got me a membership and told me to share my password with him. To be honest, I haven’t even had time to explore their website yet. After dinner, I stopped to fill up on gas (goodbye, gift card) and then stopped at Target and ended up buying a few groceries and decorations for staging the house.
Expenses: $64 at Target, $35 for gas
Income: $225 in birthday gifts!

All in all, it was a nice long weekend, I would have rather spent more of it outside, but you can’t always get what you want. Plus, with birthday money and free meals…I came out ahead.

*For accounting purposes, I treat gift cards as cash.