Checking in a day late! I very much took the weekend (and much of the week) off. I have been so stressed about tasks and house work and work work that I needed to check out, let the dishes pile up and play Animal Crossing.
I did back up my phone. Itās so old - I accidentally updated and now it keeps crashing. There isnāt room on my computer so I paid a month of cloud storage as insurance while I continue to sort through photos. I will get them archived soon. I just didnāt want it to crap out on me before I had a chance to do that.
Husband is on the phone scheduling a health appointments now! That leaves one more!
Bonus Task Completion: Applied for HELOC Contracts came through for renovation Holiday Cards sent out Got a quote for replacing the skirting on our house and a quote to finish our fencing
Called BoA today to cancel my account, but didnāt because they offered to both waive the fee and give me an extra 1% cash back through the end of the month. I also looked up my other cards and found two more with annual fees, and set reminders in my calendar to cancel those cards the first day of the month the fees accrue. Those are both airline cards, and not accounts Iāve had nearly so long, so I donāt expect them to be as generous. I may end up keeping one, because I kind of want to have at least one airline card, little as I travel currently, but I need to look into things more first.
Oh yeah, check-ins! Week 2:
-Scarf: making progress. From now unto everlasting, amen.
-Use up 2 lotions: making progress. 1 is now so low itās in the āaggressively squirt everywhereā phase lol
-Read 7 books: barely read this week, at 0/7 completed. CHAMP
Set up automatic transfer to Ally online savings - complete
Finish baby proofing - move under the sink chemicals, put locks on kitchen cabinets, finish the babyās room - did the office and half of babyās room last week, did the under the sink chemicals this week. All we have left are the cords in kitchen/babyās room and cabinet locks.
Put away the larger size baby clothes.- done for 18m, need to do 24M and 2T
Clean out garage from the last (and final!) trip from storage.
Sell extra fridge
Actually put up Christmas tree & decorations - Christmas tree is up, need to finish lights and ornaments.
Added: apply for medical grant to subsidize cost of babyās helmet. Started the paperwork today. Added: contribute to tIRA - complete
I ordered a desktop computer today. I can still use my tablet for web browsing until it completely dies as itās obviously more portable but Iām looking forward to being able to actually do what I need to do on a computer instead of trying to kluge together what apps will still work on this system. It may not be here by the end of the year but itās on its way.
ETA: I guess I was supposed to be reporting weekly? Oops. I did a little bit of research the first week or two, talked to a friend whose into this kind of stuff to finalize my decision yesterday and ordered today.
In the coming days / week: review IRAs, figure out how to do the conversion and make it happen. This one has a hard deadline of Dec 31.
Updating early this week because Iām officially off for the holidays (ish, but I;ve made no promises except to answer the occasional critical email so I can live with it) and I expect days of the week to lose meaning for a bit.
Have yearly argument with cable (internet) provider to keep charges low for another yearāTechnically done but only marginal success, will try again in a couple days. Will be very glad when city fiber gets to me and I can dump them entirely (itās up in both the west and the southā¦converge already!)
Get recalled airbags fixed in carāDONE
Also adding since I realized I hadnāt done it yet:
Fund DAF for the year (building up to make sure I keep donating after retirement even if I get panicky)āDONE
Other items are still WIP or waiting on responses.
Kinda week 3, close enough, whatever
-doctors appointment stuff all done! Labs, follow up, all of it. Nothing actionable. So, dead end.
-still need to tell the broader family, but the main goal is done.
-Iāmā¦ not getting this done.
-I read the books! Hit my goal of 20 for the year. I might have counted books wrong and only read two? Iām not sure, but my list says 20 now, and thatās what I was trying to hit.
So Iām done! 3 completed, one abandoned for now.
Call gutter guy to actually get the work done (contingent on how quick we finish painting the house) - need to follow up with them. Or maybe not, if they canāt be bothered to even return my call.
Figure out photos for photo year book thing (I donāt need to order it, just at least get it planned) - no progress made
Figure out how to get money from Raise to Paypal or some such. Or just buy myself a damn gift card of some sort. - No progress made.
Sent stern texts to former tenant and he came over and pretended to clear out his room Monday and after more stern texts he and his gf actually cleared it of 99% of stuff Tuesday. By throwing everything away and putting all the furniture in the alley but itās out of my house!!! Yayyyy! I am.ignoring the stuff of his in the basement but am super stoked to be able to clean out the cupboards and fridge today!
He left three pints of ice cream and two of them werenāt opened (along with a ton of other food thatās mostly no longer edible) so thatās my cleaning tax!
Iāve been airing his room out all week and on my way home from work today will buy paint. Maaaaybe Iāll rent a sander and sand/poly the floor but I also might just cover it with rugs and make that a Later project.
Applied for HELOC
ā¦actually eclairs sound like a lot of work.
Finish painting the house
but itās out of my house!!! Yayyyy! I am.ignoring the stuff of his in the basement but am super stoked to be able to clean out the cupboards and fridge today!