Amazing yet sucky week.
Its been a week of ups and downs. For the most part, the downs seem to be caused by my monthly hormonal flux, which is annoying due to all the other progresses I've made. Nope, no matter what I eat or how I try to think, my hormones will still f#$% me up for a week each month. The hermitting can't fix all my problems, apparently :-P
I think what's going on is that the hormones demand chocolate sacrifices in the evening, and that's been making it hard to stick to my 9 hour bedtime. I've been getting 8 or less most nights, and on top of hormones the extra lack of sleep makes me feel icky again. It helps (the chocolate avoidance) when I have better leftovers available for dinner, but that didn't really work out last weekend. Will try to fix that for next week.
Despite this, there were accomplishments! During the work week no less! OMG!
-Did Pagan stuff, as previously documented. Lit some candles, dealt some cards, got some insight.
-Finally picked up a couple of cheap 8gb flash drives, started using one. Hope I'm not going to tech hell for carrying it in my wallet.
-Copied all of the new jewelry photos onto that flash drive, took it to work, and did basic photo editing on a bunch during a ded-zone on the circ desk. Then uploaded a bunch of them onto Flickr.
-Put up FOUR whole new listings on Etsy! OMG! Did that bit at home, tho, given that I need the piece in front of me usually to remember which name/number it got.
-Updated my bizness blog for the first time since October! Bizness blagh. Pretty photos here.
-Tidied up my photo-box supplies and found a new home in the Chantry for *most* of them. Now there is room for laundry this weekend.
-Finished tidying up my rss reader collection on The Old Reader. Given recent lifestyle changes, I no longer need *that* many sewing and fashion blogs to not read.
-Tallied up the financial books for April. I spent just a few dollars over my income, after savings. And while I was still over on my grocery budget, I still did better than I have since I went paleo-ish. So I'm getting better at some things. Extras-spending was even lower, but my medical bills section ate up that achievement. Still not sure if I can afford acupuncture anymore, even down to twice a month. Will give it one more cycle, at least this month I get an extra paycheck (mostly going into the IRA). It sucks tho since it actually seems to help me. Grah!
-Realized I've been making a $$ tracking mistake since January. While I count all of my savings account deposits in my monthly budget, I wasn't recording them on my spending tracker. Which was probably another part of why I was confused when there was less cash in the checking account at bills time. Still not sure if I *should* count it as spending, or find some other place for it. But I want savings to stay a non-negotiable part of the budget.
-Did more figuring out of how much meat, veggies, etc I really need to buy each week. For both financial and dietary reasons. Taking into account that the 70% plant diet may be what's making my tummy unhappy now, Ima try to replace a bit of it with more meat. Will still be more than 50% veg, which I'm OK with. Also, budgeting/buying meat & veg by the pound isn't such a bad idea when one lives nearby a Costco.
So yay! Four new Etsy listings! If you're curious, look at them here on my Etsy shop cuz I'm too lazy to put them all up separately right nao. They're the ones in the row second to the top (or first four in listing-format) with the red backdrops. More later.
Facebook doesn't seem to want my friends to know I have Etsy listings and blog postings. I can't imagine that my friends are more excited about me posting a Gaiman quote than they are about me having the energy to actually get bizness stuff done. But it seems Fb's new party line is "Sure we can give you back your friends/fans, just give us $5 :-P" So f#$% that. Apparently my biz page got a small surge of hits in April... when I didn't post anything shiny on the interwebs at all. Sure, that makes sense.
Getting photo work done at work is getting mixed results from my brain. On one hand, hooray! Using ded space in my schedule where I'd otherwise be staring slack-jawed at the blogoshpere, for constructive things that might help my finances! On the other hand, like today, it was difficult for me to do *anything* constructive all day b/c I'm just feeling so fried. And overall, that's the big problem. I used to read on subways, most of the time I just can't focus. I can't remember to do yoga at home four mornings a week. I can think of sho many ways to utilize the time I have more efficiently... and then I forget. Or am too tired to do the thing. It is very cranky-making.
Since today is payday, and my b'day is coming up, I may order my self-gift from the interwebs tonight. Which will probably just be the BPAL oils, b/c I'm still not sure about ordering fancy chocolate online. Paleo-friendly chocolate, sure, but that means I could very easily consume all of it over the course of a weekend instead of saving it for my sloggy work days.
Will probably also order the walking shoes this month, but that's more a matter of need than want. OK, some want, but they make my feet feel less horrible so its mixed. Might order my Dcon plane tix too, since I have enough for it in my con-savings account, and the extra paycheck will kinda futz up my tracking this month anyway.
<3 Chrysilla
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, http://chrysilla.dreamwidth.org/
I think what's going on is that the hormones demand chocolate sacrifices in the evening, and that's been making it hard to stick to my 9 hour bedtime. I've been getting 8 or less most nights, and on top of hormones the extra lack of sleep makes me feel icky again. It helps (the chocolate avoidance) when I have better leftovers available for dinner, but that didn't really work out last weekend. Will try to fix that for next week.
Despite this, there were accomplishments! During the work week no less! OMG!
-Did Pagan stuff, as previously documented. Lit some candles, dealt some cards, got some insight.
-Finally picked up a couple of cheap 8gb flash drives, started using one. Hope I'm not going to tech hell for carrying it in my wallet.
-Copied all of the new jewelry photos onto that flash drive, took it to work, and did basic photo editing on a bunch during a ded-zone on the circ desk. Then uploaded a bunch of them onto Flickr.
-Put up FOUR whole new listings on Etsy! OMG! Did that bit at home, tho, given that I need the piece in front of me usually to remember which name/number it got.
-Updated my bizness blog for the first time since October! Bizness blagh. Pretty photos here.
-Tidied up my photo-box supplies and found a new home in the Chantry for *most* of them. Now there is room for laundry this weekend.
-Finished tidying up my rss reader collection on The Old Reader. Given recent lifestyle changes, I no longer need *that* many sewing and fashion blogs to not read.
-Tallied up the financial books for April. I spent just a few dollars over my income, after savings. And while I was still over on my grocery budget, I still did better than I have since I went paleo-ish. So I'm getting better at some things. Extras-spending was even lower, but my medical bills section ate up that achievement. Still not sure if I can afford acupuncture anymore, even down to twice a month. Will give it one more cycle, at least this month I get an extra paycheck (mostly going into the IRA). It sucks tho since it actually seems to help me. Grah!
-Realized I've been making a $$ tracking mistake since January. While I count all of my savings account deposits in my monthly budget, I wasn't recording them on my spending tracker. Which was probably another part of why I was confused when there was less cash in the checking account at bills time. Still not sure if I *should* count it as spending, or find some other place for it. But I want savings to stay a non-negotiable part of the budget.
-Did more figuring out of how much meat, veggies, etc I really need to buy each week. For both financial and dietary reasons. Taking into account that the 70% plant diet may be what's making my tummy unhappy now, Ima try to replace a bit of it with more meat. Will still be more than 50% veg, which I'm OK with. Also, budgeting/buying meat & veg by the pound isn't such a bad idea when one lives nearby a Costco.
So yay! Four new Etsy listings! If you're curious, look at them here on my Etsy shop cuz I'm too lazy to put them all up separately right nao. They're the ones in the row second to the top (or first four in listing-format) with the red backdrops. More later.
Facebook doesn't seem to want my friends to know I have Etsy listings and blog postings. I can't imagine that my friends are more excited about me posting a Gaiman quote than they are about me having the energy to actually get bizness stuff done. But it seems Fb's new party line is "Sure we can give you back your friends/fans, just give us $5 :-P" So f#$% that. Apparently my biz page got a small surge of hits in April... when I didn't post anything shiny on the interwebs at all. Sure, that makes sense.
Getting photo work done at work is getting mixed results from my brain. On one hand, hooray! Using ded space in my schedule where I'd otherwise be staring slack-jawed at the blogoshpere, for constructive things that might help my finances! On the other hand, like today, it was difficult for me to do *anything* constructive all day b/c I'm just feeling so fried. And overall, that's the big problem. I used to read on subways, most of the time I just can't focus. I can't remember to do yoga at home four mornings a week. I can think of sho many ways to utilize the time I have more efficiently... and then I forget. Or am too tired to do the thing. It is very cranky-making.
Since today is payday, and my b'day is coming up, I may order my self-gift from the interwebs tonight. Which will probably just be the BPAL oils, b/c I'm still not sure about ordering fancy chocolate online. Paleo-friendly chocolate, sure, but that means I could very easily consume all of it over the course of a weekend instead of saving it for my sloggy work days.
Will probably also order the walking shoes this month, but that's more a matter of need than want. OK, some want, but they make my feet feel less horrible so its mixed. Might order my Dcon plane tix too, since I have enough for it in my con-savings account, and the extra paycheck will kinda futz up my tracking this month anyway.
<3 Chrysilla
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, http://chrysilla.dreamwidth.org/