New budget

Well, it's about damn time. I finally got my raise. It was what I requested and will start with our next payday on 5/31. Now that I know for sure how much it is I can plan/allocate it. Some will go to making larger car payments. I had just upped my 401k contributions by $100/mo in March, so I'm not sure if I will add more right now, but I probably will, at least another $50/mo. Some will obviously just get incorporated into the inflation hitting my budget with everything we purchase. Gas was $5 a gallon last time we filled up. It's a relief to finally have a raise and a relief to not be stressing over it anymore. My boss still hasn't told me yet, LOL. I even talked to her on the phone about something else yesterday. I happened to see it when I logged into our payroll system and then decided to go through my list again and see if anyone else has gotten a raise since I looked a month or so ago. I was going alphabetically and came across another long time employee who hasn't had a raise in at least as long, if not longer than myself and he had a raise in the system effective yesterday. I then looked at mine and there it was.

DH was chatting with a local lady who lives in the area. She said she had just purchased some other property she wants to build on. To use the well drilling company out of the city (who we used) is a 2 YEAR wait list! There is a local guy who does well drilling and he is at least a year wait. Crazy. That probably explains part of why nothing is getting started on the lot next door, as well as they still haven't sold their house yet. Their house has been on the market almost 8 months now.

Wow, the gunfire going on yesterday was just insane. Again with the dumping of magazine rounds in a matter of seconds. Like 20 or 30 rounds in seconds. Then of course, since we live in a mountainous canyon area it just echos, too. Just crazy this is allowed to go on. About the same distance as we are away, on the other side of this shooter's neighborhood, is another pretty large neighborhood of homes. About 20 homes back there. I can't believe someone over there isn't bothered by it.

I could see if it was happening where there was lots of acreage, but this is happening in a neighborhood of about 8 homes. These houses are all down along a private road, each 2-3 acres. We're about a half mile away and can hear it loud and plain as day inside our home. Can't imagine what it's like for the houses next door to it. It's went on for hours off and on. One time it was non stop rounds for about 10 minutes. And of course, one of the few who will complain about it (Mr Neighbor) wasn't home to hear it going on. But then the shooter was kind enough to start in again at 9:30 last night, so I'm sure Mr. got woken up again.

Well, the sofa I ordered for my office has a shipping label created, but hasn't shipped yet. I won't earn my "rewards" to use towards purchasing the cat litter cabinet until it ships. I'd really like it to get here before the end of next week, when we have our guests staying, so I think I'll just order it from Amazon today. Plus Amazon typically ships very fast.

I'm trying to do some of my chores that will need to be done before friends come to stay now, rather than the day before or that morning (doesn't sound like they will get here that afternoon).  Or at least some deep cleaning done so that I just have to touch up a bit. DH was out mowing when I got done with work yesterday so I vacuumed and mopped downstairs. Dh washed the outside of all the windows yesterday so I did some inside. Once he got the outside cleaned the insides weren't bad at all. Mostly all just low on the windows - from the cat, LOL.  I emptied the small garbage cans upstairs. Today I'll clean the toilet and sink upstairs.