I just finished going through my failed May budget in order to develop one for June. I need serious budgeting and money management help.

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Clean my room=check.

Sign up for a Basic Skills Test=check.

Eat lunch=check.

Now off to apply at Burger King.. :( and possibly other stores but BK will most likely be my best bet. I hate being broke. :(

I am an awesome server, ahahaha.

Well, that’s not true. I’m not going to get cocky about it. I had a lot of help last night, from my wait assist and food runner and GM, and also from other servers, mostly Sunny and Devin, who continuously checked up on me to see if I needed anything.

Having said that, I did 76 covers, sold $1700 worth of food, and made $372 in tips. More than anyone else working last night, including the senior servers. Pretty much twice what everyone else did, actually. And I only made one $4 mistake, I his ‘masago nigiri’ in the POS instead of ‘maguro nigiri’, which is a common mistake because the buttons are right next to each other. ONE MISTAKE, ALL NIGHT. And it was easily corrected, I just asked for the maguro on the fly after I saw the masago hit the table. I brought it out and explained to the guest, and they were pleased with their free masago.

I tipped out $114 between the sushi bar, by two wait assists, the liquor bar, and the food runner. I walked with $258. Holy. Shit.

And it was easy. It was so easy. Much easier than the expo.

HAVING SAID THAT. I prefer the expo. I’m a bit of an OCD control freak, and on the expo, at the pass, I’m at the pinnacle of being in control. At the tables, you’re not in control, the guest is. But the money, for serving a six table section all night? Holy shit. No way. I could handle doing one Friday patio shift a month, easily. Holy. Crap.

I logged onto my BYUI account today to check on my finances (like I do pretty much every day, since I submitted all my financial aid stuff).  After last semester, I decided to be a grown-up, and pay for school myself from now on, since with my parents divorce and stuff, finances are tight at home. 

Anyway, I checked tonight, and… really, I can’t describe my physical reaction.  You know how your mind goes blank sometimes?  My whole body kind of did that.  I already knew I had been awarded a partial scholarship (rather small, but I was happy for anything).  However, after my eyes unblurred (a reaction of the shock, I’m sure), I saw that I had been offered a pretty good sized loan, and….. (insert drumroll)…….. had been given a GOOD grant. 

It was the kind of thing that I had hoped for, had imagined getting, but never REALLY thought I would be getting.  A huge chunk of my next two semesters are covered.  I CANNOT believe that this is happening. 

I feel so blessed.  So, so, so blessed, I feel like I cannot… I don’t know, I cannot even believe that this is real.  I feel like there has GOT to be a catch somewhere that I’m not seeing, because things like this are too good to be true, right?  I told my mom this (who was sitting with me, about as floored as I am), and she said that maybe I shouldn’t be questioning it, and just see the blessing that it is… that maybe it’s a blessing I’m getting in return for living my life righteously, and making the right choices… one of those blessings that’s promised for keeping whatever certain covenants. 

I’m just so blown away.  I am so blessed, and SO grateful.  I kind of still can’t believe this is happening… but I know it is, and that is SO wonderful.

if I want to pay off my debt in a year, I figured out I need to be putting approx 1,326 $ towards it per month. Is it better to pay it off quick and be done, or live a little and save some ?! thoughts please.