Tuition payments will leave a lot of air in any account they were withdrawn from!

eBay will be nickel and diming me with payments to my checking account as items I list sell. So far shoes, handbags, undergarments. Over the years I had good coupons from VS and bought extras that now can come out of the bag in the dresser and go on eBay. They still have the tags. It's low-hanging fruit as far as Internet sales when you price undergarments just a little under the competition. I may or may not have paid this much, but it was a long time ago and getting cash now instead of donating to the Goodwill works for me. The same with the DSW coupons for shoes and leather handbags bought at clearance prices. There were some I bought that had second thoughts about, and they do well on eBay.

I had a lovely dinner with a friend last night before I assembled and installed her new portable air conditioner. She is also having household AC system problems so during the day this will boost the cooling capacity in the house and when the new one is installed in a couple of weeks she'll have this set to cool the cats in one room closed off from the workers. And after that she'll use it in her finished garage's studio workspace.

Fridays, even when you're retired, are still about my favorite day of the week, looking forward to nothing scheduled on the weekend. This weekend I'm going to get out a few of my canning supplies and pickle a couple of jars of okra, just so I can say I had something I could process from the garden in this year of drought and high heat. And I need to make another batch of babaghanouj. I've decided it makes just about the perfect lunch on my fasting days - a couple of ounces of that with a half of a small pita bread and you get the complex carbohydrate of the dip (made with sesame seeds, lemon juice, garlic, and eggplant) and bread that are a snack-sized lunch under 100 calories.