Friday
After work, Bird and I headed over to our friend’s house for a double date consisting of dinner and a movie. We ate at a new Mexican restaurant in the area and didn’t love it. $32. Then we went and saw This Is It, the Michael Jackson movie. This, we did love. I went in with really low expectations, not exactly what you would call a huge MJ fan. I mean, I like his hits, but there’s really not much else about the guy I like. I didn’t even really know what the movie was going to be about, but it was actually pretty interesting. I’m recommending it to anyone who has even the least bit of interest in MJ or his music, because you get a different perspective of Michael Jackson that you never really got in the media in the last 10-15 years or so. $18.50 for two tickets (movies are ridiculously expensive).
Saturday
This was the great errand day. We went to the bank and deposited a few final wedding checks. Yes! We tried to add me to Bird’s bank account and change her name on her checking account. We tried to do that online, but turns out we need to do it at the bank, so that was kind of a bummer since we were just at the bank! Well, at least we got those checks deposited that we’ve been sitting on since mid-September.
We drove to the thrift store and dropped off 3 or 4 bags of Bird’s clothes and shoes that didn’t make the cut as we were cleaning out the apartment. Then we headed over to Verizon to add Bird to my account as a family plan. Now, instead of each paying $50-60 a month for cell phones, our combined bill will be about $75 per month. That’s the good news. The bad news is we needed to get her a new phone. We paid $159.99 for a pretty cool little touchscreen phone (and case) and we’ll get $50 back on a rebate which I dropped in the mail today.
After Verizon, we stopped at Target and did massive amounts of grocery shopping. Total bill: $89.40 but $20 of that was for a new USB computer mouse that I wanted for my laptop. We used wedding gift cards for all this and we will be using Target gift cards for months to come! From Target, we headed over to Subway to grab lunch. $12
Our last stop of the day was to be Old Navy. Bird had seen a vest there that she really liked a few months ago and she knew it was now on sale. We had also picked up a 30% off coupon from Twitter, so we were going to get a great deal. That’s the good news. The bad news is we didn’t just get the vest! She ended up getting a few shirts and I got a new pair of pants for work, 1 shirt, 3 t-shirts. Total bill was about $90 but that’s okay because that was quite a deal for everything we got and I desperately needed those new pants.
Once we got home, we signed up for Turkey Day 5k that we are going to run with my brother and his girlfriend. $51.57 I really need to bring down my time from my last race and so we’ve started running after work. With that, we were done spending money for the day and we spent the evening cooking, playing games and watching Angel.
Sunday
It was a pretty low key spending day. Filled up my gas tank ($22.60 at $2.49 p/g) on the way to go book shopping in the morning. Bird went out for coffee with her friends. I ended up buying two bags of books for about $30. Then I headed over to my parent’s house to watch the Vikings game and to do laundry. My mom bought pizza for lunch. After the game, I drove over and met Bird at her parent’s house where we had another free dinner. Love days like that.
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