Well, I sure haven't kept my promise to do more blogging. Woe is me. Well, at least I have an excuse, or a reason, however you may want to put it.
I now have two jobs. One day job at the day care, and a night job at the bar. For two weeks I worked MON-FRI @ the daycare, and then TUE-SAT at the bar. Massively ridiculous hours, people. Then last and this week I only had to work THUR-FRI-SAT at the bar. Not so hard, except for the fact that actual triathlon training started in the midst of all of this.
My schedule has been crazy, Crazy. And then if you add another, not-so-well-trained dog into the mix, one often wonders how I'm not in the looney bin, or simply 100% out of commission by now. I thank my lucky stars for that.
Anywho, we demo-ed the basement today with my husband's parents. They did a bunch last night and tonight while I was at work, too. While I am excited to be moving forward with this project of ours, it is quite disheartening that every time I turned around today I found another leak in our basement (and some in our garage); just more that we have to fix. 6 days of rain is more than enough, thank you.
I need a massage and a chiropractor.
On the other hand, even though there is hardly enough energy for anything else in my life now, there IS extra money, with a second paycheck AND tips every night. In a little over a month, I made over one thousand dollars in tips. I keep them in a jar, and Chad and I decided that they will be my "clothing fund." That will offset the expense, since I plan on getting to my goal weight and purchasing a whole new wardrobe sometime this year, which can sure get spendy.
Also in the news, WE PAID OFF OUR CAR last week. Chad and I (and hopefully the rest of our family in the future) will NEVER, EVER have a car payment again. What a triumph among all the doom and gloom and blah-ness that is our life right now.
Either way, it feels good to be meeting goals, and making progress, and feeling like we're actually doing something good with our lives. And I need to practice remembering how much good we have in ratio with the bad. So often I get so zoomed in on the negative that all the positive just shoots out of my mind.
Any suggestions on how to improve on that? Any and all advice is welcome.
Good night, non-raptured world.
whoot whoot!! that's so exciting about your clothes fund and paying off your car :)
ReplyDeleteas far as the good vs. bad thing, sometimes it helps to hear other people's stories about their lives, and to read books, especially about other countries and cultures. that's my suggestion thus far...