Long Term Fiscal Solvency In North Portland: A Case Study

I be Broke (note the capital B). For CK's Birthday I got her what she always wanted: household budget spreadsheets. This exercise was none too soon in coming. After months of net negative cash flow, I can expect to be back in the black sometime in November, if no one needs major surgery not covered by the insurance and the roof doesn't collapse. This assumes I continue to work part time when I go back to school. To add to my budgetary woes, the truck is acting up and the fridge clonked out. It'll be $240 for the fridge parts and labor and the truck repair cost is unknown. It could be a timing issue plus a sticky throttle or it could need an engine rebuild. Either way I can't continue to throw good money after bad to keep it running perfectly. Since my classes are across town I need to know I can get to them every day without fail. For this reason the purchase of a new car is in the previously mentioned budgets.
CK's Birthday was fun times. Since we are so broke, I made dinner instead of going out, then we sat next to the fire pit in the backyard instead of going dancing. I brought home an ice cream cake, only to find the freezer wasn't freezing. Luckily a neighbor had room in their fridge to store it, thereby avoiding melted ice cream tragedy.