Little bit of this, little bit of that

I headed to the gym this morning and did the following Tabata:

20 seconds 135# deadlift
10 seconds off
20 seconds burpees (as many as you can)
10 seconds off

repeat 8 times

I am not 100% confident in the number of reps I performed b/c I kept them in my head while moving from one round to the next. You can imagine, keeping 16 numbers in your head is not an easy task when you're just fighting to keep going.

Deadlifts
5,4,4,4,4,4,3,2

Burpees
9,8,7,7,7,6,6,6

In total, the workout is only 8 minutes long, but let me tell you, 3 minutes in, I wanted to die. It was tough. 135# deadlift is a lot for me so I'm pretty pumped about doing it so many times.

On the finance front- I haven't had much to blog about. We get paid every other week and of course, we get paid the same week. So there's not much activity except twice per month or every other week.

Our tenants in our MI home will be paying their rent today and I'll be sending that to our debt. $1,100! Wahoo! It's tough when you get to the largest debt like this and it takes so long or goes so slow. But, we're still chugging along... slow and steady.

You guys have heard me mention time and time again how awesome Mint.com is right? I mean, I love this website. It reinforces the nerd in me!

However, I have a complaint! Yup, that's right... Mint.com programmers, if you're reading this, I have an issue. Normally on the 30th or 31st of the month, I go into Mint.com and create the budget for the coming month. It's a very simple task and it saves the month prior so there's usually very little tweaking.

BUT it won't let me create August 2009's budget in there because when I click on the "August" tab, it takes me back to my 2008 budget. While this might be handy for some people, I would like to create my new budget and don't really care what I spent last August. And, it says, "August 2008" so it's not like I can just change it.

So, for you blogville, I created a spreadsheet to show you what my budget is for August:

Our total debt reduction in August should be $3,525!

Our home in MI might need a few repairs, so that debt reduction number might be slightly lower. I'm hoping we can use overtime pay or other income to pay for the repairs without taking away from our snowball. When I create my budget, I only budget our salaries. I don't include our overtime pay or Michael's LA Fitness pay. That is "extra" and we tend to throw it toward debt when it comes in, but I don't plan for it.

Conference call in two seconds, gotta run.
Bye!
Kelsalynn