Two baseball games today -- both are at the same location, about 40 minutes away -- but they are five hours apart. I'll have to decide what to do about the time in between.

Yesterday I paid my wheel tax, but I got my city senior pass first, so it was only half of what it would have been otherwise - $37.50. I hope the senior pass will come in handy for other things.

I updated my tollway pass info and reattached my transponder. This was no cost.

I went to Aldi in the morning and spent $18.

My splurge spending yesterday was $4 for shakes. It was a hot day, and the boys and I were celebrating my new car.

My budget is okay this month, but next month will involve another hit to savings when about $3500 in credit card spending comes due. I don't think I mentioned it, but I put $2K of my car payment on a credit card in order to earn cash back. $2K is the limit the dealer would allow. The other $1500 -- a big chunk of it -- is vacation spending. All of my normal spending goes on credit cards, too. I always pay in full, but next month it will have to come out of savings.

As far as variables go, I've only spent 4% in the early days of this pay cycle.