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I'm feeling quite scatterbrained today, so I'm going to attempt to update this rather than focus on the things that I feel like I should. XD
Things I should be doing right now:
- My laundry
- Dinner - I'm down to ingredients for just one meal, which needs to be made in the crockpot.
- Dishes - We got a set of new pots and pans for Christmas which we haven't taken out of the box because we haven't been caught up enough on dishes to wash them.
- Reading Wuthering Heights - I'm about 65 pages from the end! I'm not enjoying it very much, so I'd like to get it done. It's alright, but I'm about at the limits of my patience with it and just want it off my currently reading list. I will say that it's interesting that it's characterized as a romance. I don't think it is at all. I'd call it a family drama, if anything, and even that's not quite right. I consider it to be a study of the rippling effects of child abuse more than anything.
- Finishing week 2 of the linguistics course that I'm doing on Coursera - I was really consistent in week one, but I haven't done anything for week 2 until today. It's a really fun course, and I like it a lot, but time has felt very short this week.
- Doing my yoga for the day - I skipped last night because of laziness, and I don't want to wait too long to get the next one done. Skipping a day always makes it harder for me to continue on the day after.
Things I've been doing instead:
- Looking at Twitter and dying a little inside - My account is very political, and the state of my country has me completely devastated.
- Considering starting to study French - J and I are seriously considering the possibility of moving to Canada in the future, and French is a thing that we should know for that.
- Plotting and planning what manga I'd like to read in Japanese next - Never mind that I'm currently reading 3 or 4 manga that I'm nowhere near finishing.
- Getting distracted by the League of Legends game that J has playing while he studies - I'm OK with watching League, but it doesn't have the draw of hockey for me. I don't really know the players or teams, and that makes it hard for me to root for anyone.
- Worrying about the car insurance payment that I have to make next month, and money issues in general - We're almost two months into J being unemployed, and 1 month into him being a full-time student, and paying everything by myself is pretty rough. Plus, I know J is running low on money, and he still has his own bills that I may need to start paying in the near future. I can do it, but there won't be very much wiggle room at all. Kind of regretting buying a car, even though I think it was necessary. The extra $300 a month in bills hurts. I'm hoping that he'll get his W2 soon so we can do our taxes. Not sure if we'll get a refund, given how much more I make now, but I want to give whatever we get to J so that he can pay his own bills for that much longer. I've gotten both my W2s and can get the rest of my info online, so we're just waiting on him.
We've got some houses to look at on Monday, so hopefully one of them will be something that we like. We have a friend who would like to move in with us if we have a house, and that would certainly help with money issues a lot. I'm working on accepting that I will just need to be flexible with my money habits for the next couple years, reassessing things on a monthly basis rather than having a set strategy, and I think I'm doing OK. I just wish that there was something I could do to make it a little easier without exerting myself too much. Partially because I just don't want a second job, and partially because J would feel terrible if I did take on more work in order to get more money - he'd feel obligated to get work himself, and I don't want that. Seeing how stressed he's been by school these past few weeks has really opened my eyes to what a challenge this is for him, more in terms of his anxiety than his academic abilities, and I don't want anything messing that up. We need this.
And I've already procrastinated past the time limit I had set for myself re: goofing off. Oops. Better go do something productive now. :)
Things I should be doing right now:
- My laundry
- Dinner - I'm down to ingredients for just one meal, which needs to be made in the crockpot.
- Dishes - We got a set of new pots and pans for Christmas which we haven't taken out of the box because we haven't been caught up enough on dishes to wash them.
- Reading Wuthering Heights - I'm about 65 pages from the end! I'm not enjoying it very much, so I'd like to get it done. It's alright, but I'm about at the limits of my patience with it and just want it off my currently reading list. I will say that it's interesting that it's characterized as a romance. I don't think it is at all. I'd call it a family drama, if anything, and even that's not quite right. I consider it to be a study of the rippling effects of child abuse more than anything.
- Finishing week 2 of the linguistics course that I'm doing on Coursera - I was really consistent in week one, but I haven't done anything for week 2 until today. It's a really fun course, and I like it a lot, but time has felt very short this week.
- Doing my yoga for the day - I skipped last night because of laziness, and I don't want to wait too long to get the next one done. Skipping a day always makes it harder for me to continue on the day after.
Things I've been doing instead:
- Looking at Twitter and dying a little inside - My account is very political, and the state of my country has me completely devastated.
- Considering starting to study French - J and I are seriously considering the possibility of moving to Canada in the future, and French is a thing that we should know for that.
- Plotting and planning what manga I'd like to read in Japanese next - Never mind that I'm currently reading 3 or 4 manga that I'm nowhere near finishing.
- Getting distracted by the League of Legends game that J has playing while he studies - I'm OK with watching League, but it doesn't have the draw of hockey for me. I don't really know the players or teams, and that makes it hard for me to root for anyone.
- Worrying about the car insurance payment that I have to make next month, and money issues in general - We're almost two months into J being unemployed, and 1 month into him being a full-time student, and paying everything by myself is pretty rough. Plus, I know J is running low on money, and he still has his own bills that I may need to start paying in the near future. I can do it, but there won't be very much wiggle room at all. Kind of regretting buying a car, even though I think it was necessary. The extra $300 a month in bills hurts. I'm hoping that he'll get his W2 soon so we can do our taxes. Not sure if we'll get a refund, given how much more I make now, but I want to give whatever we get to J so that he can pay his own bills for that much longer. I've gotten both my W2s and can get the rest of my info online, so we're just waiting on him.
We've got some houses to look at on Monday, so hopefully one of them will be something that we like. We have a friend who would like to move in with us if we have a house, and that would certainly help with money issues a lot. I'm working on accepting that I will just need to be flexible with my money habits for the next couple years, reassessing things on a monthly basis rather than having a set strategy, and I think I'm doing OK. I just wish that there was something I could do to make it a little easier without exerting myself too much. Partially because I just don't want a second job, and partially because J would feel terrible if I did take on more work in order to get more money - he'd feel obligated to get work himself, and I don't want that. Seeing how stressed he's been by school these past few weeks has really opened my eyes to what a challenge this is for him, more in terms of his anxiety than his academic abilities, and I don't want anything messing that up. We need this.
And I've already procrastinated past the time limit I had set for myself re: goofing off. Oops. Better go do something productive now. :)