Multi-Purpose
Jul/090
It’s been a busy few days…
Thursday morning, Heather was doing particularly not well and we wound up in the emergency room starting around noon. The ER docs handed her off to neurosurgery, who handed her off to urology, who didn’t really help much. Thanks to some relaxing and some Valium, she seems to be doing better right now. We’ll see how the next couple of days play out. (For those of you who don’t know how visits to the ER work, we got home slightly after midnight with a diagnosis that was exactly the same as the symptoms she went in with, as well as a “come back if you notice” list also including all of the symptoms she went in [and walked out] with.)
Jason called me the other day. He’d just heard about mom. I honestly feel like I should call him back, but I have absolutely no idea what to say to him. Jason and I haven’t talked in a while and I know there some messy feelings going on, at least on my side. Even so, “not avoiding communication” is on my list of things that are making life better, so I need to find a way to connect with him.
There’s a lot more, I’m sure, but I’m not really in the mood to go into it right now…
I know you mean what you say, but you don’t always say what you think. You keep almost everything of what goes on inside you close to your chest, and you don’t let anyone see what you’re thinking unless you want them to.
Reconditioning Life 101
Jun/090
As of yesterday afternoon, life is getting better. This is the result of my new proactive outlook. No longer will I worry about being a victim of my circumstance.
Here’s the plan:
- Food budget reduced from $375/week to $50/week
- Food style changed from “whatever” to bulk/organic items from the Riverwest Co-op
- Wasteful random spending reduced from $30/day to $0
- Discretionary budget increased from $0 to $100 each/month
- General finance handling changed from debit to cash
- The kitchen will be clean every night before 21:00
- The living room will be clean every night before 23:00
- All furry pets will be brushed daily
- I will not make up time off of work: I will take it as unpaid leave
- I will sleep at least 8-hours every night
- I will use a motorcycle in lieu of a car whenever possible
- I will not waste time watching TV or aimlessly surfing the ‘net
Call it God. Call it karma. Call it the universe. Whatever. It will provide for us. We always have exactly enough to get by. Any time we get a windfall, we get an equivalent expense. Every time we have an unexpected expense, we immediately receive an unexpected windfall. It is too exact to be accidental. It’s time to start living within our means.