I quit the gym

I feel like a total failure. I have had a gym membership for a few years now. I went at 5:30 AM religiously for a year when I first got it. Then I didn't go for awhile. Then I went sporadically.

Every month I watched that money come out of my account and the guilt weighed heavily upon me (pun intended). I would continue the cycle of going then avoiding over and over.

I don't even want to know how much money I spent on all those months for the privilege of carrying around a plastic barcode that got me in. Maybe at a later point I will figure it out, but not right now.

I feel like a failure because it was yet another 'oh there jolie goes spending money and not committing to something again'. I have a history of that though less so, recently.

Did I lose weight? oh yes that first round coupled with WW, I lost a ton. And I felt fantastic!!! But it's all back and I feel horrible, physically, emotionally and financially.

Free Samples

Sometime back in early September, at the same time I ordered some free samples from P and G, I found another site here in Canada that also gave out free samples.

A lovely box arrived yesterday with them. The kicker is, I can't even remember what webpage I got them from. They came in a box with Shoppers Drug mart written all over it. I checked my favourites and my emails where I would sign up and register and can't find a site, so I can't even recommend one to you. Unless one of you wise readers also receives from the same place????

LOL anyways there were quite a few little items in the box.

Something for him...

something for her...

And something for the house.

Banned from Kindle

....until Christmas. It's a self ban. Lordy that one click easy purchase is addictive and shot my personal allowance spending to h*ll. I am chalking it up to it being a brand new item. A novelty. The kicker is that a lot of the books I bought on there were ones I used to own and had garage saled at a certain point.

I am so swamped at work these days and I don't need to be visiting literature memory lane right now. If I want to read there are lots of books for school I can use.

So tucked in my drawer my lil kindle is. And there it can remain until I have a few days off at Christmas, and hopefully Santa will bring me some better self control

The Power of Music - Remembering, on 11/11/11 at 11

Where the money stands

as of November 6th

Debts

Mortgage - $32 658.66
Vehicle Loan - $8 895.99
Total Debt - $41 554.65

Savings/Planned Spending
Xmas 2011 - $1200
RRSP - $2675
RESP - $8300