A word, here, about terminology. I talked yesterday about going on offense heading into 2021. Going on offense means taking steps, real actionable steps, to claw the life that I want back from Coronaworld. So yesterday and today I started working out what those steps could be. Some of them are easy, obvious things: just […]
A word, here, about being boring. I enrolled in my 401k at work today, and this is a fascinating experience. Not the act of enrolling, mind. That was a few clicks on a website. Pick your percentage, pick where you want the money to live, and that’s basically it. But it still felt oddly good […]
A word, here, about careful planning. Back at the beginning of the plague, I dunno, I want to say week four or so, at the suggestion of a few friends, I restarted the Quizo game I ran at the Dark Horse. The game is on a temporary hiatus right now while I work on some […]
A word, here, about predicting the future. Remember yesterday when I said I was going to go to the dentist today and get told I had tooth leprosy? Well… My fun first visit with my new dentist this morning yielded more infections and impacted wisdom teeth and root canals that need redoing than you really […]
A word, here, about newfound strengths. I got up this morning! The whole sheer bloody-mindedness plan actually worked! I set my alarm last night for 6:45, and when it went off this morning I rolled over, turned it off, got out of bed, and said, “alright.” And once I got back from the bathroom instead […]
A word, here, about new experiences. I got paid today and it wasn’t stressful at all. If this has ever happened before I cannot remember it. You would think that getting paid would be a stress relief, but I’m recognizing now that it just morphed my financial stress from “I don’t have enough money” to […]
A word, here, about tackling new challenges. What began as an exercise in budgeting has turned into… not “hard” decisions necessarily, but stuff I am having to think about much more than I expected. I was warned this would happen, that once I started thinking differently about money that I’d start thinking differently about a […]
A word, here, about finally turning that last corner. I have talked in the past about how I am Bad With Money. This is not a new development. I’ve never been good with money. I mean NEVER. Not even close to it. I don’t know why this is. For a long time there I was […]