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Apr. 22nd, 2015 10:06 pmKeeping control of my finances is seriously one of the hardest things I've ever done. I'll be going along and doing all right and doing all right and then an anthropomorphic figure kickstarter comes along, or a 1/2 price nail polish sale or something, and there goes not a huge wad of change but a significant chunk. Augh. I mean, I can't say I'm doing horribly, I'm not spending nearly as much as I used to on takeout or smoothies and I'm being good about most impulse I-wants, but these limited time offer deals are going to kill my wallet. Or at least, they will until I can pay my credit card off and build up my savings again. First the one and then the other, since I still do have savings, which is more than most people can say, ugh. This economy. Everything.
Just have to keep on keeping on, anyway. I'm slowly rewiring my brain patterns to go yes, you want that thing, but you don't actually need that thing, and you may need that type of thing but another shiny of that type of thing will be along later after you have saved up for it, so save up for it. Only in another month it's my birthday so I'll have birthday moneys and I'll have to try even harder. Double ugh. Not for the birthday money, for the willpower effort.
Ah well. I'm paying down the credit card faster than I expected to be able to, so that's a plus. I'm not hurting for money to pay my bills or even for the little little extras like chocolate pudding (dear god Trader Joe's Belgian chocolate pudding om nom) so that's also a plus. I'm just grumpy because I got myself into a hole last year and now I'm crawling out of it now that my head's on straighter and life may in fact be not kicking me in the ass anymore.
(Plus Diablo's free to amuse me for hours on end. And so are online lessons.)
Progress continues on writing at a slow but steady pace. Slower than I'd like given the time I have left to finish it in, but it might still be doable. I just need to stop getting distracted. I mainlined the rest of the Spiritwalker trilogy in quick order even if I had to sacrifice a lot of other time to do it, which is the other other reason other than sick that I'm behind in Nano as I am.
Just have to keep on keeping on, anyway. I'm slowly rewiring my brain patterns to go yes, you want that thing, but you don't actually need that thing, and you may need that type of thing but another shiny of that type of thing will be along later after you have saved up for it, so save up for it. Only in another month it's my birthday so I'll have birthday moneys and I'll have to try even harder. Double ugh. Not for the birthday money, for the willpower effort.
Ah well. I'm paying down the credit card faster than I expected to be able to, so that's a plus. I'm not hurting for money to pay my bills or even for the little little extras like chocolate pudding (dear god Trader Joe's Belgian chocolate pudding om nom) so that's also a plus. I'm just grumpy because I got myself into a hole last year and now I'm crawling out of it now that my head's on straighter and life may in fact be not kicking me in the ass anymore.
(Plus Diablo's free to amuse me for hours on end. And so are online lessons.)
Progress continues on writing at a slow but steady pace. Slower than I'd like given the time I have left to finish it in, but it might still be doable. I just need to stop getting distracted. I mainlined the rest of the Spiritwalker trilogy in quick order even if I had to sacrifice a lot of other time to do it, which is the other other reason other than sick that I'm behind in Nano as I am.