Budgetary Figurings

This week marks the first week where our reduced hours are in effect at work. I've elected to take Monday afternoons off. If there's one thing that I could do with less of, it's Monday afternoons at work. Although all things considered I'd rather be working than not.

I did some calculations, figurings and general budgetary voodoo and I've come to conclude that I should be ok with the reduced income. I'll need to curtail my entertainment spending quite a bit and try to watch my unnecessary food expenses (as well as try to keep dinner costs around the level of spending that we've been doing for the past several weeks). I'm probaly playing it safer than I have to but it's hard estimating expenses due to the move and not having a good idea of how the budget is going to totally shape up with that. And now I have less cash per month to play with too. I'd rather err on the side of caution until I'm really sure of the numbers.

So it's not quite as bad as I had feared but definitely not ideal My already limited play money supplies have been nearly eliminated. I also ended up curtailing my contributions to my 401k plan for the time being. I'm still young and I already couldn't afford to drop the kind of money that I really needed to put into it. So it's not like that'll make a huge impact in my retirement savings. And there's no company match, so there's no incentive to keep it going. I'll readjust it when my financial situation improves, one way or another.

This week is going to feel pretty long as we already have plans for Friday. Wassy's finishing up her current semester of school this week so we're going to have a little celebration to commemerate the ending of her very annoying Digital Illuistration course. So there's going to be a week ending party situation going down here. Should be very fun.

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