showing some herring. image courtesy forkthis.blogspot.com
I got off to a good start. I really did. On the 11th, I spent $17.46 on bread, coffee, and pickled herring. Since that was practice herring, much of it spelled with past the point of edibility, I could reasonably claim it as a business or educational expense and leave it off the list. (Note to self, new parents, and the functionally illiterate: alphabet fridge magnets are suited than pickled herring to repeated spelling practice, and marginally better tasting after the sixth spelling attempt.) The pickled herring I consumed on the night of my successful record attempt was essentially a free meal. I spent $9 on Thursday, for my half of the Pizza Night pizza, bringing my subtotal to $26.46, and managed to get through the rest of the week on leftovers, until Saturday. That’s when another of the unsecured bolts that hold my brain together rattled off into the blue, and I entered a soup and sandwich cookoff, to benefit the Greenpoint Soup Kitchen.
