Needing a paycheck

It's been a few weeks since I was last paid, as I left my previous job to train at my current tax services company. Company policy states that training payment, which took place over the course of 2 weeks, is not paid until the end of the first month of work. I guess they don't want people to complete the training and then walk off and use it for themselves or elsewhere.

So that was 2 weeks without pay, and the new company pays on the opposite week as the old place, pushing back my first paycheck by a week. Needless to say, I am looking forward to my first paycheck on Friday, as I need to pay down that growing credit card bill which needs to be paid off before the 1st of February. January 31st I will receive the $320 training payment, and then things will be running consistently.

I've got some cash ($240) I've been meaning to deposit for quite awhile now, and I will use that to pay some of the credit card and also throw some into my IRA.

Still waiting on my W-2, as I'd like to file my taxes soon. I'm expecting a couple hundred dollar refund based on that last couple of year's results, and depending on when that comes, I will likely throw that into my Cruise fund.

Work has been going well, as I've begun to get the hang of everything, and I really like it so far. Business is really starting to pick up, so I expect to be pretty busy in the coming weeks.