Practice Week #40

Boring stats - 7 days (Sunday 6/15- Saturday 6/21)

Bow exercises 4
Bach Minuets 1
Vibrato 2
Suzuki 1
Sight reading 1

Didn't do so well this week, only got 4 days of celloing and no keyboard, two days of trying to get some web work done and a day going over Peru travel arrangements interfered. I did make it up to SMA Saturday. The interstate was still screwed up but I gave myself 90 minutes to get there this time. I was able to get off the interstate and take an alternate route after spending 1/2 hr in virtually nonmoving traffic.

Excitement for the week was finalizing my Southern Peru itinerary with friend, Rusela, and my hubby. The airfare had gone down so our tickets ended up costing $514 each which is pretty reasonable. Also booked Pay Purix hostel 3k from the airport for the days coming and going from Lima for $28 a room.

The netflix experiment has gone well. The instant video is fun but hubby is finicky and hard to please. The problem is we currently subscribe to blockbuster. Don't want to do both. May put blockbuster on hold for three months and switch back and forth with netflix for a while.

Hubby is feeling better but stamina is low. He still wants a ride to work and back. Normally, he'd take the metro. Also, South Florida has been having a lot of thunderstorms, no fun getting drenched. Still it's a dangerous commute driving the 3 miles into downtown Miami. There's always a strong chance of getting one's car bashed by some frustrated SUV.

For fun, I've been budgeting our grocery bill. Hubby tends to buy impulsively but since he's been sick, I've been in charge of getting groceries. My goal is to keep our total grocery bill under $300 a month based on this estimate: $3 a meal x 3 meals/day x 30 days = $270.