Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
PMM, congrats on the new job (pending pee test)!
I calculate I'm saving about $500 this year by cutting back on the soda-drinking habit. I'll save a lot if I learn to cook and quit eating out so much, too, but that's still hypothetical. Oh, and putting the brakes on the Amazon and eBay habit has saved me a lot of money.
Whooo, gainful employment for Plei!
Yay, Plei!
Come on austerity budget ideas, what else we got?
"Quit buying shit I don't need" is the name of my budget this year. I usually deal with depression by buying stuff to make myself feel better. Now I'm feeling better for real, and I don't feel that need to find the "thing" that will make me happy. Now I have a house full of crap I wish I could get my money back for!
Right now I want to order a pizza real bad, and I'm not doing it because I promised myself I wouldn't, and I'm mad at myself for making me promise.
"Quit buying shit I don't need" is the name of my budget this year.
Yes...that is it here too. I did a full review of what I spent in 2014 and it is scary the amount of money I spent on grocery AND dining out.
K-Bug and I are trying hard to meal plan each week, cook/prep as much as possible on Sunday so that dinners are easier.
I'm not doing it because I promised myself I wouldn't, and I'm mad at myself for making me promise.
I promised I would floss like a damn adult who wants to keep the rest of her teeth, and I now have ONE WEEK of flossing (in a row!) under my belt. But oh my god, it is SO BORING. I'm not *mad* at myself for that promise, but oh god so boring.
I've read things that say "Floss while you're watching TV!" but I don't possess that kind of ninjalike hand-eye coordination. I seriously need to look in the mirror to make sure I'm doing it right.
Maybe one day I will be a floss ninja, but today is not that day. SO BORING. (As are these updates.)
Like, I'd love for it to be MORE gainful, but it's gainful enough!
My company is doing this thing... where if we sign up to do biometric screenings and talk to a "health counselor" and do a couple other things like maybe walk 7000 steps a month for 3 months while wearing a tracker... we get a discount on our health insurance next year. I have resisted this the last two years they did it, because it sounds hinky to me. Why does my group health insurance provider want this individual information? They aren't doing it for us, they're doing it for them, which means it's gonna save them money somehow, but I don't see how unless they're gonna use this data on a population of mostly middle-aged women desk workers to justify raising our rates. Last two years, they gave us $300 off; this year it's $400, which means they're getting what they want and they want more of us zombies to participate.
$400 is enough to tempt me to do it, despite my misgivings. Am I being overly paranoid here?
it is scary the amount of money I spent on grocery AND dining out.I did the math and apparently I spend I think about 8x as much on this as the "average" person. Granted, I'm buying for 1 1/3 people some of the time (because Will doesn't pay for the ingredients when I cook dinner), but 1 1/3 != 8.
Woot on the new jobs front!
I have no energy for this job today, but that may be linked to having put in 80+ hours overtime in the past week and a half. Big deadline/big submission sort-of achieved. (The receiving folks totally bungled the technical aspects at their end, so our stuff kind of staggered in late, in bits and pieces). But it is in, more or less. I can foresee Lessons Learned getting a bit venty, all around.
I need to sleep for a week.