Things have been rather status quo around here. DH and I were supposed to go out for dinner and to see ap lay on Saturday, but I had a bad migraine, so we had to postpone those plans. we're going to try again this weekend. I was looking forward to it.

Food spending has been pretty good this month. I'll look at totals once July gets here, but so far I think we've been doing a good job of keeping the dining total low and the grocery total at an acceptable level.

Dh got paid somewhat unexpextedly for some work he did for a friend a while ago, and a sizeable amount of money at that (though it still doesn't cover his hourly rate for all of the hours he put into the project). It was a nice check to get in the mail, and it is on its way to our savings account. His regular tutoring clients are back in town now, and tutoring will start up again with them next month. It's a bummer to have him gone an evening a week after a rushed dinner, but it's not forever, and it is easy money that helps keep our reserves up.

I have no tutoring right now. I think it may be the first summer that goes by in a while that I haven't taken on a student. A friend of mine in an affluent area is making $60/hour for her writing workshop/tutoring. That is apparently the going rate there. Pretty incredible. I will probably raise my rates this fall, particularly if I start tutoring more of the college students.