Now we join <i>The Week In Review</i>

I worked a full 40 hours this week. Okay, 39.75 as I was 10 minutes late to work on Friday due to emergency road work on 494 at the MN River bridge. I actually will be carrying money forward from this week into next week!! My on-line gaming fee is paid, T-Mobile is paid. I have to make my truck payment next week, but that’s the only bill out of a full 40 hour check. I’ll actually be able to renew my car insurance and make the first payment...early!

Otherwise, I’m working on my budget and realizing that I should be able to get my own place in about three months. I’m setting April 1st as the “be in my own place” date. I just have to make sure that I’m not overlooking anything in my budget such as food, gas, DSL, etc.

I did do some impulse shopping this week that wasn’t truly impulse. I had to replace the memory card for my digital camera ($59), I got new rechargable batteries for it ($20) to replace the 4 year old batteries that were barely holding a charge, and I got a replacement fan for my video card ($25). My computer doesn’t sound like it has a mad dog in it (the video card fan had lost a bearing or maybe two and growled loudly when it was actually spinning).

The only downside to getting the camera back up and running is when I tried to burn CDs last night and I discovered that my very trusty 2.5 year old CD burner had finally given up the ghost and wouldn’t write at all...and wouldn’t read above 4x. So, I’m holding off until Wednesday and getting myself a combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive for the computer. I’ll have a burner again and I can watch movies up here. Win-Win for me.

Otherwise, life is going pretty well. Work is going well, the truck is running well and is now freshly washed. About the only thing left for me to do on my weekend to-do list is laundry. I’m planning on doing that tonight before I go to bed. It’ll be sitting in the dryer waiting for me in the morning.

All in all, life’s going well. I still have my battles with depression, but things are looking good across the board and that helps.