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Oct 10 Day 30

Eaten Today

Oatmeal and Banana -9:30 before work

Sandwich- on short lunch break, couldn’t cook anything 

Bacon and eggs - 4:30 just after work, hungry since didn’t have much lunch

Trader Joe’s Cheetos- Snacking while doing homework

Worked for 6 and a half hours today and consumed the last of my onboarding training videos. I’m very excited to be done with this project since it has just been an overwhelming daily task with all the other responsibilities I have right now. I think it will be a good reflection to look back on and the collection of receipts will provide a better understanding of my spending habits. Another interesting observation when looking at my collection is the amount of receipts that are digital. It’s about half and half but it is surprising more places don’t just use digital recipes. However, a physical recipe just seems to hold a lot more value when looking back on it and it’s crazy to think about the amount I’ve throw away in my lifetime. 

I have spent so much money in these past 30 days but I honestly think I spend it pretty responsibly. Majority of it is just food which is necessary for survival. Now that I have an income who knows how my spending habits will change but that’s a question for a different project. 

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Oct 9 Day 29

Got up early today to workout before work. I worked at 10 so I woke up around 7:30 and ran to the Rec with my roommate, got back to the apartment around 9:15. Ate some peanut butter and banana toast for breakfast and went to work. It was only a 6 hour shift so I wasn’t too worried about when I’d get my lunch cause I knew I’d have a break. I still had to do a bunch of training/onboarding videos at work so I just starred a screen consuming instructional videos for 6 hours which pretty much sucked but money is money. I had found a U-card on the sidewalk that morning going to the RecWell so I decided to walk down to the U-card office to turn it in after work. I ran into a friend at the bookstore and we decided to go to Target to see my roommate who was working there. 

I managed not to buy anything at Target since I didn’t have any money on me but still good self-restraint. I then consumed some brownies with my friend since he only bought them if I would eat some cause he’s on some weird calorie counting thing but I’m not so I ate majority of them and enjoyed them a little extra cause they were free. 

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Oct 8 Day 28

Made some Trader Joe’s Chocolate Croissants in the morning by just throwing them in the oven but they were delicious nonetheless. Literally just did homework ALL DAY, went outside and worked at a park then went to a different park and came home around 4 pm when my laptop died. Me and my roommate didn’t want to cook so we decided to go to one of our favorite Dinkytown restaurants, Walley’s. I was now making money at my job so I was more than happy to spend money on food. It was 4:30 when we got there so it wasn’t busy at all. I got the Spicy Musahab Burrito with fries and their amazing garlic sauce all for 12.24. I ate the entire thing in less than 10 minutes and felt so full after I didn’t know if I could make the walk home. I somehow made it home but continued to feel like I had eaten an entire thanksgiving feast for the next 6 hours. I don’t know what made it so filling but I didn’t have my normal midnight snacks as a result so it saved me some extra consumption there. 

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Oct 7 Day 27

Didn’t go to the Rec today because I had my first day of work at 10.  It was just a 4 hour shift but I just sat consuming training videos for those 4 hours straight. It’s a leasing office so there’s a lot of legal stuff I have to learn so I don’t get sued or at least that’s what it sounds like. Didn’t directly spend any money today though I did make money which is new! The only thing I did spend money on would be my Spotify subscription service which is $5.00 a month, which breaks down to less than 20 cents a day, definitely worth it. Then it was just homework all day and I made curry for dinner with this new Pumpkin Curry Simmer Sauce from Trader Joe’s and it was pretty good. 

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Oct 6 Day 26

Today I had my in person Typography class. It was very productive and I finished all my projects. Afterwards I was very hungry since the class goes right through lunch time and gets out at 3. I get back to my apartment at 3:30 and make some potatoes with bacon, broccoli, sour-cream and cheese. Nothing great but it tasted amazing since I was crazy hungry. 

Did some homework but wasn’t very productive then reheated some chili leftovers for dinner and wasn't very hungry at all since I ate lunch at 3:30. Then we had some friends over to watch some more avatar episodes. Almost finished the show but still have 3 episodes left.

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Oct 5 Day 26

Purchased

Bordertown Coffee- $5.00

Target Run- $9.77

Went to workout at the Rec this morning, ran there with my roommate. It’s only a mile run but I hate running and it’s been a while. After the RecWell we went to Bordertown Coffee, per the usual Monday routine but this time we met up with a friend. I didn’t buy a muffin because although I had a job I haven’t started yet and don’t want to spend all my money before I have income. 

My roommate had work that day at 3 so I walked with her to Target and picked up just some clothes hangers and lotion, both essentials so no random spending. After that I was just in the apartment all day doing homework, consuming zoom lectures and listening to music, the usual Monday since all my homework is due Monday nights and as usual I procrastinate. Overall, not a big spending day, just the coffee and two target products.

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Oct 4 Day 25

Wake up around 9:30, very tired but can’t sleep

Ate apple cinnamon instant oatmeal and grapes for breakfast

Ate leftover lasagna from home for lunch

Walked with my roommate to her shift at target and picked up clothes hangers and lotion

Total= 11.50

Face Timed two friends

Face Timed parents to help me with some job paperwork

Only plan for the day was homework yet I didn't start it till 6pm

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Oct 3 Day 24

Pasta- $14.03

Pie- $4.75

Gas Money- $7.00

D.P. Dough- $8.00

Went on a day trip to the North Shore with some friends today. Consumed a lot of gas since it was a total of 6-7 hours of driving. Left early in the morning then got breakfast/lunch at a famous place Grandma’s Restaurant. Got some pasta called “Penne from Heaven” and it was just mediocre pasta, not bad but didn’t live up to the name. Walked around Duluth and went to some overlooks before heading up the coast. Weather was pretty cold but not rainy and ended up clearing up with some sunshine later on. 

Listened to a lot of music in the car from a bunch of different genres since everyone took turns on aux playing different music. Went to Betty’s Pie outside of Two Harbors. Bad experience because we ordered online so that we wouldn’t have to wait in line but we waited 30 mins after ordering, online until it said it was ready for pickup. Then we waited another 20 mins in line for pick-up. Then we get to the window and they say it’s not ready yet. We wait another 10 mins, still not ready. Then after another 10 minutes we finally get 3 pieces of room temperature, pretty good pie. Definitely not an experience worth $4.75.   

Get back later that night, don’t end up eating until 11:30pm and order some cheesy bacon tots from D.P. Dough for $8.00.

Consume a lot of music.

Go to bed at 4:00 am.

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Oct 2 Day 23

Purchased

Trader Joe’s- $43.01

Got back to my apartment at 8 in the morning and then went to take a nap and consumed some avatar episodes and the great British baking show on Netflix while I went in and out of sleep.

Went shopping at Trader Joe’s with my roommate since Target didn’t have everything we needed on Wednesday. Ended up spending $43.01, more than I expected. Didn’t do much homework today because I got back and took another nap. Made some pasta with vegetables and lemon sauce for dinner. Then some friends came over to work on homework but we just ended up watching Avatar because they have all seen it and wanted me to catch up. There’s definitely a lot of Avatar:The Last Airbender in this blog because it’s pretty much the only show I’m watching right now and I’m watching it even more cause all my friends are pretty much forcing me too but also it’s a good show. 

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Oct 1 Day 22

Went to pepin heights purchase= $14

Went to ace hardware purchase= $8

Thrifted purchase= $7

Had a full day in my hometown today and decided to do some local shopping. First on my list was apple cider and some apples from the local apple orchard in town, Pepin Heights. Total came out to be $14 because Honeycrisp apples are more expensive but by far the best. Then I went to visit my old coworkers at ACE Hardware and bought some Dot’s pretzels because they're cheapest there as well as a very cheap drying rack for baking. 

Went back home and had some leftover homemade chili for lunch which tasted especially good because I didn’t have to make it.  Then had zoom class at 4:30 and went thrifting afterwards at this tiny thrift store on the bottom floor of someone’s house and found 3 pieces that came to a total of $7. One of the workers in the store was kind of rude so it didn’t make it too nice of an experience but still very happy cause I got cheap clothes. Didn’t even get a receipt there because I paid in cash and if you want a receipt they have to specially print one off, like I said kind of a weird store.  Then it was dinner and my mom made a dish called beef burgundy which was pretty alright. Not a favorite dish of mine but again I didn’t have to make it so it tasted extra good. 

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Sept 30 Day 21

Woke up at 7:30 to work on my coding project even though I had set an alarm for 6. Ate some apple cinnamon instant oatmeal with blueberries for breakfast and drank some black tea. I ended up setting up office hours with my professor because CSS coding just isn’t going well. I then worked on the two open book exams I had that day that were due at midnight. Cooked some sausage and ate some cheese for lunch and that was all because I was going home today so I knew I’d have lots of food to eat there. 

Went home around 3 and stopped at Target on the way back. My dad was buying so I picked up some cooking supplies for my apartment. Also bought a pack of red vines and ate them with my dad on the rest of the drive back.  Got home and ate Lasagna for dinner, then worked on my exams for the rest of the night. Took a short break to watch some YouTube Videos with my dad. I’m the one who got him onto youtube and watching adventure/travel videos so now we usually watch them together when I’m home. Otherwise, I don’t watch a lot of youtube on the day to day. Youtube is also a free streaming service so no money spent on it but consumption is added with the viewing of ads in all the videos. 

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Sept 29 Day 20

Had in-person class today in the letterpress lab. Learned a lot more today and started working on the project, experimenting with a lot of different stuff and absorbing a lot of information. Listened to Spotify on the bus but again just skipping through random songs, nothing specific or different from my normal music consumption. 

I had a lot of coding homework to work on but first I went to dinky target, yet again, with my roommate because we were actually running out of food. On the way there we stopped by a little restaurant called Land’s End Pasty Company not to eat there, just to see where it was which is actually quite hidden down a long hallway next to the Shaung Cheng restaurant. I had heard about it and wanted to just check it out since I’d like to bring my mom there because it’s British comfort food and she’s British.  

I bought pretty much just some basic grocery essentials at Target, but the one notable buy was breakfast sausage because I had been craving it non-stop recently so I was very happy to get that. The total came out to be $19.72.

I then went home and cooked up some breakfast sausage and made some homemade ramen for dinner. After, it was time to figure out my coding issues so I spent the next couple hours working on that only to become very lost and stressed out. After emailing the professor there wasn’t much else I could do so I decided to go to bed and get up early to finish it the next day.

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Sept 28 Day 19

RecWell Workout at 9:00

Got Flu Shot at RecWell at 9:30

Got coffee and chocolate chip and rosemary muffin at Bordertown Coffee- $10.56

Ate leftover ramen for lunch

Web Design Zoom Class at 3

Homework for rest of day

Made fried rice for dinner 

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Sept 27 Day 18

Another sunday that is just another homework day. All my roommates were actually gone the whole day which never happens when living with 3 other people so I got to play my music out loud and took advantage of this time to clean the whole apartment, as well as, do all the other chores I had put off. 

Watched hours and hours of geography class videos. Kind of rainy weather outside which made it easier to focus on my work without being distracted by the outdoors. I listened to my movie soundtrack playlist while doing my work and it made me super productive since it's familiar tunes but no words to distract me. I made ramen from scratch for lunch and it turned out super delicious. 

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Sept 26 Day 17

Purchased

Afro Deli Meal- $13.51

Lots of walking and time spent outside today. Wasn’t that nice of a day since it was cloudy and a little warm for fall. Walked down to St. Anthony Main with my roommate and ended up down on Nicollet Island and just walked around the whole thing. On our way back we were getting hungry and really wanted to go to a good coffee shop but there was nothing open except starbucks in the area. After a lot of indecision we finally decided to just get lunch at one of our favorite restaurants, Afro Deli, in stadium village. Decided to buy a san pellegrino soda with the meal because they had my favorite flavor. I pretty much always just get free water so this was in fact a splurge for me. The food never disappoints no matter what you order and we ended up meeting up with a friend there as well. 

After the late lunch it was 5:00 by the time we got back to the apartment and it was homework for the rest of the day until at night I watched some Avatar with my roommate and ended up falling asleep on the couch before calling it a night.  

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Sept 25 Day 16

Purchased

Target Groceries- $16.45

Went to the Rec in the morning with my roommate per our normal routine. I honestly don’t remember what I ate for breakfast but for lunch I made pasta with vegetables and sausage. I then went hammocking with one of my high school friends and afterwards came back and walked to dinky target with my roommate. We walked a different way there which made it kind of interesting because we go to that target a lot and it sure gets old. I bought some produce and a pack of tuna because I recently started getting sick while eating fish but instead of going to the doctor I figured I’ll just eat different seafood products and see what happens to try and figure it out. 

I was going to make lasagna for dinner that night but we forgot to buy mozzarella and our AC was broken, so we didn’t want to turn on the oven. We made tacos instead. That night me and my roommate could actually sit in the living room and watch tv because our other two roommates had left for the weekend so we didn’t have to worry about the weird living room dynamics with them. We watched the new episode of the Great British Baking Show but they replaced one of the hosts again and they just keep getting worse. 

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Sept 24 Day 15

Purchased

Notebook-$5.99

Sticky Notes-$2.69

Didn’t have much to do today since my normal Typography zoom meeting got moved to in-person only once a week so now I have a lot more free time on Thursdays. I decided to walk to the bookstore to get outside and enjoy the nice day and buy a notebook and sticky notes for classes. I charged the total of $9.38 to my student account.

I had a reading presentation for this class and I still had to finish up slides for that, last minute per usual. I made a quesadilla and spaghettios for lunch as a child but it was what I had available and I was feeling lazy. While I was eating my spaghettios I got a call back from a job I had applied for in my apartment building. I hadn’t expected to hear back since I’ve had a lot of trouble finding a job but they wanted to interview me that day. Stressed me out because I had to finish my slides really quick before the immediate interview that I had not planned for that day. 

I then gave my presentation in zoom class and split a $1 frozen pizza with my roommate for dinner because we were just extra lazy about cooking today which is strange for us. I did eat lots of carrots and grapes with the pizza though of course. Since I felt I had a stressful day with the job interview and presentation I decided to take the night off since I didn’t have any immediate homework and binge watch some Avatar episodes. While watching netflix I ate an entire bag of microwave popcorn followed by an apple to cancel it out.