Tiny Victories

I just got a reminder that I am at that point in my financial education where I’m past Personal Finance 101. Always feels good.

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I made this banquette and this human.
The table is unstable and doesn’t fit the space so I have to rethink It, but generally the concept is sound and I am pleased.

Edit to add: two colours on the table because I only sanded half of it.

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You’re awesome at making really cool things.

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Gluhwein at Aldi only costs $5! The real stuff too, not some crappy knockoff shit!

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Terrible Roommate and his Awful Piss Dog have moved out. They didn’t leave behind a huge mess or piles of garbage!

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This morning I sucked it up and caught up on five months of spending. The job isn’t done, I only reconciled credit card spending, but it was a huge job and I had been dreading it for five months.

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YAY! Not tiny victory.

I signed up for community solar a while back and apparently the project started producing energy in the past month. I realized this because my energy bill was very low so I looked and found a credit for more than half the electricity bill.

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Today was my first good health day in a month. I did so many things! Framing pictures and cleaning out cupboards and cleaning rooms and working on the floors and not being cranky even though I have extra kids and delivering bags of stuff to the thrift store and catching up on admin stuff!

And now I am totally drained and almost fainted on the stairs. But I did stuff!

Tonight will be take out and a massage, but first I will nap.

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YES GOOD.
I hope your nap includes cuddles from a dog or a cat.

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Roughly two hours with two dogs and a cat. Every part hurts but I don’t have to do anything, so I am eating leftover and reading in the coziest situation imaginable.

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After realizing kiddo had too much screen time this morning, we managed to get him outside where he used his cowboy boots to jump in puddles for quite a while.

I also did ALL the laundry, including putting almost all of it away, and washed dishes (not my chore) and cleared out a couple invisible corners.

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Made plans to see a friend this weekend that I hadn’t seen in a while (months). Her suggestion, “… grab a coffee or something or maybe just a cup of tea at either of our houses.” So she came over for tea today!

#cheapdate #notthatway #iboughttoomanysnacks

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Duckling has been watching TV as soon as we get up in the morning. Yesterday we decided to Parent Up and reduce tv use. It’s 9:45 AM and we’re having a snack and some TV, after running amok all morning, filling the dishwasher, bringing in washing/ hanging out a new load and washing the car. Also re-potting some gerberas. We have energy again!

(We had to wait until we had energy to be able to say No to tv, rather than the other way around.)

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I had a massage and now my body moves in ways that I had forgotten bodies are supposed to move in.
Bonus: many parts of me are very well moisturized.

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I removed another section of morning glory.

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I stopped taking meds with bad side effects and feel so much better in a bunch of ways.

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Made it home. Still sick, but now I’m sick at home.

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Carried huge broken tupperware of soup to work without spilling soup all over my rucksack

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