Budget?

That's right, you read my title correctly. Justin and I decided, once again, we need a budget. Sure, we live ok month to month right now, but if we really want to save money to pay off debt and go on a VACATION in October, we have got to get serious and save some cash.

I feel that since living with a budget is relatively new to me since I haven't done it for a long time, I'll probably be writing about it quite a bit, so why not start now, on our first budget day?

A lot of people will probably scoff at our budget, but it will prove challenging for us, I imagine. We are allotting ourselves $30/day together, or $15/day/person. Here is our budget breakdown for today.

We brought our breakfast and lunch to work with food we'd bought prior to our budget, so that doesn't count. ;)
$1 - diet coke (Justin)
$22 - dinner at TGIFridays (both of us!)
$5 - ice cream from the store (I am on an ice cream kick)
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$28 total.

Not great considering we didn't have to buy breakfast or lunch, but not too shabby for our first day either. We realize we won't be eating out very often, especially without planning for it.

In other news, I had a disheartening meeting with our VP today. I found out that, unlike I thought and had been lead to believe, my direct boss has never discussed the possibility of giving me a promotion, which he mentioned to me 5 months ago. Now I feel betrayed and exploited. Fun stuff. I hope that my VP at least feels I am doing a good job. We are also getting a new director soon, so in a way, it's a good thing to be starting over with someone new. I just hope I can be peppy and driven again when he gets here. Not that I have completely lost those qualities, I just feel a little down. Honesty being important and all that rot.