It's not always about frugality, and Saturday happenings

I tend to focus more on frugal wins on the blog, for obvious reasons, but not all of the choices we make have frugality top of mind. 

I have an absolutely crazy few weeks, with a work trip to LA, a birthday dinner for M that we are hosting, out of town guests, more work, the last week of my Stanford class & my capstone project, finishing all of my performance reviews, & then a trip to Greece. As such, getting the house properly cleaned to host & entertain is lower on my priority list, so I am having our house deep cleaned next Monday when I'm back from LA. What a relief to give that task to someone else, so I can focus on all of the other many things grabbing my attention. I did promise myself that I could pay to have the house cleaned regularly when I went back to work. I did that for several months, and then when I decided I was only staying for a year, I opted to cancel the service & just clean on my own. 

Anyway, that's my very non-frugal splurge for the month, and I'm looking forward to it.

Other happenings today:

• I'm going to a combo strength/cardio class this morning, which will be nice to put me closer towards my goal of 3x/week for strength training
• Finish packing for work trip
• Get all of the Father's Day cards for my dad (myself & the boys) finished & mailed
• Get M's cards all prepped (Father's Day & birthday)
• Start organizing Greece items & determine if I need to buy any travel toiletries
• Make a Costco list (for everyone else) for the week
• I may also try to get in a walk, as I'm way behind on my step goals for the week
• Clean the fridge
• Laundry

What about you all? What's your most recent splurge, and what's on the agenda for today?