Pay Day, Where It All Went

Mortgage-pd
Health Insurance-pd
Over Due Mobile phone (oopps forgot to update the only auto pay I have when I got a new card)
Send some $$ to my credit card (I have a balance for the first time since I got my card)
Got gas for the car (ouch, it's gone up 15c since last week)
Have allocated $30 for food this week and next.

I am due a pay check from my weekend job. I submitted my hours, signed my time sheet, so I'm hoping there is a check this week when I get there on Friday night. I would like to pay off the remaining balance on my credit card before the month is over and use part of the money for the forgotten graduation presents.

Oh yeah, I got another invitation in the mail for a party in July.  I'm going to try avoid that one if possible.

Looking ahead, I get paid again at the end of the month and that check will cover my car note, electric, land line, internet, car insurance and food budget.

A Week Behind Each Payroll~

I spoke with our payroll person yesterday and yes, the fact I moved from salary to hourly has meant that my pay cycle changes. I'm not sure I understand why-previously, I got paid on the 1st of the month (covering the 16th-31st) and on the 15th (covering the 1st-15th). When I was salaried I got paid that week for that week. Now that I'm hourly, I will be a week in arrears due to the date they transmit payroll to ADP. I'll get paid this 15th for last week and this week, they transmit payroll the middle of next week and that week won't be on that check. I'm trying to remember if my payroll person had this conversation with me and I forgot it (or more likely blocked it out) or if we did not. I've got to pay better attention to these things. I've got to ask questions, I've got to take better care of myself.

What I don't get is why I can't get paid as hourly the same as I did salary in terms of what should be in my paycheck. I'm just not seeing the reasoning behind it. All it means is right now I have less money in my account than I would like and some bills will have to wait until the 15th to get paid (thank goodness they are not due until well after the 15th). I don't want to dip into my E-Fund to "make up" the difference because I'm not feeling disciplined enough at the moment to "restock" the E-Fund from my new payroll schedule. I will just do without.

The only bummer to all of this is I really needed to go grocery shopping to get food for my weekend job. I was "assigned" a food cupboard so I can keep a stash of food at the farm and not have to eat out. I'll shop out of my own pantry for now and just pick up the minimal amount of other food. Ah well....