Not a SAHM, but playing one on TV

This week I get to 'work' from home. My next project in Norfolk hasn't started and so I get to decompress from my home office. I have 5 tidying projects (should take 1-2 hours each) and I am going to paint the living room. Noodle goes to pre-school and I can't just pull her from school, it messes up her schedule too much and havoc ensues when I go back to work so I have to wait until at least 3 everyday to go get her. So I get up with hubby and Noodle, help her get out the door to school and then do stuff. This morning I am reconciling the expenses of my last project and reading blogs. This afternoon I am sanding the walls of the living room and reading blogs. Tonight I am making grouper tempura and seaweed salad for dinner. The four year old loves seaweed salad and all things sushi so I am going to try it out.
I am also walking to the local Staples and geting hanging file folders to organize our finances. My new year's resolution was to understand our finances so I bought the book Smart Women Finish Rich. I figure I am smart so I should be able to do this. So far I am on step 4 so I have to organize before I can proceed. So far it is all common sense so I am not sure why I haven't done it before...maybe a lack of common sense??? What Mr Bach has repeatedly said is that it isn't how much you make but how much you save. If you cut out that $4 double mochachino from Fourbucks then you can save $1460 a year. So then I have to decide which $4 items I want to get rid off. I can't get rid of the $4 a pint respberries, they are chock full of anti-oxidants and it is one thing I know noodle will chow down on. We mostly eat at home for dinner and I eat out sometimes for lunch, maybe I could eat out less. I could cancel my membership to the Y but that works against the second new year's resolution to be able to wear my clothes again. Hmmm, decisions, decisions. This weekend Noodle and I went to the Western North Carolina Nature Center. We love this place. Here we are with the goats: She took one picture and I took the other. That is the deal we have, I take one, she takes one. The goat, Shanel (pronounced like the perfume) tried to climb on my head and shoulders. If I could quit my job and do anything, it would be owning my own fuzzy animal farm: nigerian dwarf goats, llamas, galloway cows, chinchillas, bernese mountain dogs and newfoundlands. Also, I would have cow cats and Main Coon cats. The cow cats would match the galloways so there would be a cohesion throughout the farm. I pretty much like all things cute and fuzzy and I am open to suggestions for other cute and fuzzy animals. I am not sure what I would actually do with these and I grew up in Braintree, MA, not a hot bed for 4-H or anything so I don't know how to actually care for any of these animals, except the dogs and cats who are easy. Really it is a pipe dream. I would have a big farm house and a greenhouse too. I think it would be fun. It is a far cry from implementing ERP software.
Speaking of which, time to get back to expense reconciliation...