June 11
The toenail and knee are still feeling less than spectacular, so I just stayed home. I did pay some of the bills that I received in the mail, though.
Los Angeles Dept of Water and Power: $101.00 LA residents get billed every two months if they are lucky; I lived in my previous apartment for eight months before the first bill showed up.
Medical bill copays: $66.69.
Daily spending: $167.69
Weekly spending: $530.25
Wasted: $10.00
June 10
Cafeteria breakfast: $2.65. Grits, an egg, and something pretending to be a hashbrown. I wasn't hungry, and it probably tasted even worse than it looks, but antibiotics on an empty stomach will make me puke.
H&K Grocery on the way home: $10.58. Ate the raspberries before I remembered to take pic.
Daily spending: $13.21.
June 9
Home with my abcess. Zero spending.
June 8
Urgent care clinic: $20 copay. Some kind of insect bit me on June 5 while I was playing tennis, and it got infected and turned into cellulitis. I have a gigantic abscess on my right knee.
Was prescribed antibiotics. Went to Target to get the prescription filled. My lunch while I was there, $6.55.
My doxycycline prescription; the copay was only $0.70. It's equal to almost a fifth of the per capita health care spending in many developing countries.
Daily spending: $27.25.
June 7
My toe hurts, so not really hungry until very late afternoon. Noodles and ginger ale from the canteen: $1.59.
Stopped at taco truck in my neighborhood on the way home. 4 beef tacos: $4.00
Daily spending: $5.59.
June 6
Pseudo-Starbucks chocolate croissant: $2.50
Scheduled for ingrown toenail surgery in the afternoon, so had a very light lunch. Two eggs: $1.38
Ouch to both the nail surgery and the $180 copay at the podiatrist. I have good health insurance but I still haven't met my deductible for the year.
Was prescribed some kind of naturopathic wound ointment for my toenail. $0.50 for parking at the pharmacist. $21.90 for the ointment. A $4 tube of generic Neosporin probably would have worked just as well.
Back to work and feeling hungry. $0.99 bag of Doritos.
The local anesthetic in my foot was wearing off on the way home, and my gas tank was almost empty. I gladly paid $4.69 a gallon for full service instead of the $4.09 I could have paid for self serve; it was $60 for the tank.
Anesthetic completely worn off by the time I got back into my neighborhood. Knew cooking dinner was going to be a lost cause. KFC value menu meal: $6.55. The economy sucks: it was $5 plus tax last month.
Daily spending: $273.82
June 5
$5.75 for two loads of laundry.
Miscellaneous household goods at Target: $26.35. One of the bulbs in the dining room light fixture has been blown out for a week. I could have sworn that I had extra bulbs somewhere in my apartment, but I wasn't able to find them. Of course, as soon as I went out and bought new ones, I found the ones that where missing. I now have enough light bulbs to last for the next five years. And yes, I do occasionally like to read tabloid trash.
Mango something another at Jamba Juice: $4.15
McDonald's Filet o Fish Meal: $6.45
Casualties from the fridge and pantry: $10. A lot of my produce gets purchased at the 99 Cents store; it's cheap but the shelf life is questionable a lot of the time.
Daily spending: $42.70
Wastage: $10.00
