I have a day planner. Franklin Quest, though it's technically called Franklin Covey now. At the end of every month there is a page to list all your expenses. What I usually do is write down my expenses for the day, then tally them up after the end of the month, just to see how much I've spent and on what. I have never been punctual about getting that done as soon as the month closes, but that doesn't stop the beginning of the month; oftentimes I'll have to keep up with expenses for the first days of the next month before getting around to tying up the monthly expense list of the previous one.

Well, it had gotten worse in the past few years, where I've been procrastinating later and later into the month before finishing up the monthly expense list and not getting around to writing down the expenses of the first days of the next month. This month, however, has been an absolute abomination. I didn't get around to filling out my monthly expense list until yesterday. Moreover, this time around I used that as an excuse to not put the pages of December in, so I haven't put down the expenses for this month.

Actually I still haven't. I've stopped myself because I'm trying to remember if I need to write down things I don't have a receipt for. Meanwhile, I have a rather thick pile of receipts I haven't gotten around to yet. I'm stopped on ... let me see ... the 5th because I need to get back on this blog and see what I wrote down for that day. And I can't do that unless I finish this blog post for today. See how it backs up?

I've relied on catching up with expenses during my downtime at the U. "working." But lately my experiments have been runs that are so long that I don't have time to take a break and do this. I've had no downtime. Last night during that glacial turd of a Vikings game and tonight after I surf Reality Kings porn is my downtime. Maybe. Or maybe I won't get around this until tomorrow. But that'll be it. I swear. Possibly.