(combined from several Fridays)
- I pulled some late nights working on a project for my dad’s 75th. The beginning of the week was rough during the days and I look at the situation and sigh. When I say “late night” it was nothing past 1 am. That used to be nothing, I’m really starting to feel my age.
- Side note, I can stay up to 1 am socially and have no problem. Add the stress of meeting a deadline and I’m drained. No more grad schools for me.
- I just booked my last free weekend of the summer. I’m touring New England this month - northern Mass, Maine, Connecticut and Vermont. I couldn’t squeeze in New Hampshire and am worried I might have missed blueberry season in Maine. And I just used up the last of my frozen blueberries from last year’s picking.
- My car’s check engine light came on and I brought it in last week. While I was there they fixed the other light that’s been on forever - low tire pressure. The light was on not because of the tires but because the sensors on the tires - the batteries were dead. Driving my car with no lights on the dashboard is a breath of fresh air. It’s like it’s a new and improved car!
- I’ve started setting small goals at work that will improve my state of mind. First up was email management. I hunkered down in my free time and cleared out the 800+ emails in the inbox that accumulated. I’m down to 50 and my goal is to keep it at that number. I feel like a weight has been lifted. No more remembering in the middle of the night that I didn’t respond to someone. Baby steps.
- Finally paid my first mortgage payment. It’s starting to feel real, that I really own my place now. It was so long in the making it’s still not fully sunk in.
- Note to self, new place + pinterest = danger. I’ve been perusing the site for ideas - decorating, remodeling, painting. Many hours have been spent.
- While in Vermont I got some blueberry picking in. Not as big a haul since the berries got baked on the bushes after the recent heat waves. Still, I feel better knowing that I’ve got berries in the freezer again.
- Besides bringing back berries, I brought back my brother who has been staying with me. Total of three weeks. Wednesday this week marked the half way point and I have to say I’m pleasantly surprised how it’s gone. We usually get along great but then again, we haven’t spent more than a week together in a long time. To keep it real, Nick “tortures” me by not always cleaning up, and I “torture” him by watching Big Brother. It took him awhile to realize the show is on three times a week! We’ve found ways to coexist - I clean up and he goes reads a book when the show is on.
- Nick and I made special buttons/pins to acknowledge my cousin in his third Oliver production, down in CT. And his first professional production. I’m pretty sure I’m maxed out on Oliver now. My pin read “Tyler Glorious Tyler”, Nick’s was “Consider Yourself… Tylered” and we realized that the pin we made Tyler’s mom was inadequate, it should have read “Oliver’s Mom!” She was very proud.
- My car light came back on - tire pressure issues again. That lasted all of a week or two.
- Current inbox email count - 19! I’m doing good. It’s taken a lot of diligence, but the peace of mind is worth the extra work. I missed a day this week and was over 200, but buckled down.
- Due to having a house guest, I’ve been a bit better with chores and cooking and cranking on the to-do lists. I’ve got an ambitious list of tasks for Saturday before heading over to visit my god-son and his sister.
- Big task accomplished this week - financials are almost all in order. I rolled over my old 401Ks, paid off some loans, including my student loan (yay!), and adjusted the budget for the new expenses associated with going from renting to owning. It feels good, especially since I had been holding off on all this stuff until the house stuff cleared.
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