And it continues...

I wore the dress. The one purchased back in November. It has black stones on the neckline and a chic sheath shape. I love it. It loves me. I swear if it had a voice it would praise the way the dress seems to be tailor made for me. In my months of absence several things have changed.

I have had to push back the date of my pay-off deadline because I got accepted into a teaching program! What does that mean? Summer training will be unpaid until its end, or up until a month after. So I have had to shift all of my "extra" money into savings because I won't be paid for up to three months! I hope to have this money saved by June 15, and with 3/4 of it already in the bank, that doesn't seem like TOO much of a stretch. It seems that the training will begin only a week later, so let's hope that all goes well.

Sadly, I have caved a few times more since my last post. I've bought a few sweaters and tops, a dress, two pairs of pants, and two pairs of shorts. The shorts I bought are for summer school teaching since we have to look "professional" and I figured a denim mini probably wouldn't cut it in the classroom. I haven't bought shoes in a while, which is so foreign to me. The last time I had a shoe purchase was probably in April 2009 (wow, a year ago!) when I went to Atlanta and fell in love with studded leather strappy sandals.

I'm still a fan of saving. Since abandoning this blog, I went into hyper financial study mode and decided to create goals after I begin my teaching career. Goals that include buying a house that has a basement that I'll convert into an apartment to rent out, getting a new car (eventually since the one I have costs more to fix than it's worth) that I can pay off in 3 years but keep for 10, invest in stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs, have an emergency account, and open my retirement account.

First thing up: file my taxes.