I got a minimum amount of stuff done during the week. I almost want to say I got nothing done during the week. I don't know. I just didn't get much done. I played on the computer. I dealt with some money orders that I've had sitting around, and I did a few things with my investments. Well, my retirement investments anyway. I don't have any non-retirement money right now. I have to get started on my taxes, and I have to go donate things to the thrift store. I'll do that next week.
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I'm ultra-tired. I have two more days of the work week, but I'm tired. Well. I'm not really tired, it's just that I haven't fallen asleep since I came back from work. I can't take time-off, I can't take time off in general, but especially between now and April. I basically have my year planned out: nothing interesting between now and April, then from April to August still nothing interesting, then it's winter. It's 2023, and this is the one-millionth time I've had to put things back together after everything fell apart.
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I'm thinking mainly about April. This is one of those cases where I'm anticipating coming in slightly short of my goal, but it does seem possible that I might make it if I squeeze, and maybe get a little lucky.
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In terms of my finances. The main thing is getting through until April. Tax season. Then I have to focus on paying off my credit cards. I'm not sure how long that will take. There hasn't been much overtime lately, and honestly, there have been several times when I've wanted to take time off but didn't because I kind of can't really afford to.
Lean times.
I don't anticipate getting a tax refund. During the months I wasn't working in 2022 I was basically running on my IRA money, and I'm sure I'm looking at a fat penalty. Nightmare.
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Repayment on my student loans begins in April. Nightmare.
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I want to take a few things to the thrift store donation center. I've been meaning to do this, but I just haven't gotten around to it.
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Someone I used to work with at the tractor warehouse died. He died about a year and a half ago. I looked him up online, but I couldn't find a cause of death or anything, only that he died at the hospital. It seems that he was working at a car dealership in town at the time.
I wasn't really thinking about him or anything, it's just that I was looking through my old Facebook memories and I came across a post with a few likes from my old co-workers from the tractor warehouse, and then came across a post mentioning his death about a year ago, and then I did a web search and came across his obituary.
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About a week ago I went to Lee's Sandwiches to get a Banh Mi sandwich. I ended up ordering and eating three of them. The location is half an hour away from where I live, so, even though there have been other times when I've wanted to eat one, I simply didn't do it because it would be an hour in driving time to get a sandwich.
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I bought my new computer primarily to play Victoria 3, but I really haven't gotten around to buying Victoria 3 or even playing it. Most of the time I've spent playing on my new computer I've spent playing Civilization 6.
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I'm worried about the future. I anticipate that my budget is going to be extremely tight through April, and then continue to be extremely tight after that while I pay off my credit cards, and then find out if these student loans are going to be forgiven or not. I still have a credit card balance from the road trip I took to Louisiana back in February of 2022.
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There are two things that I have to manage in my personal life, and they sometimes seem to be at odds. One is my energy levels, and the other is my mood. I try to elevate my mood by staying up after work and playing on the computer, but this reduces the amount of time I spend sleeping, but if I sleep for the full 11 or whatever hours of free time I have, then I seem to be grouchy, but if I'm tired, I also end up grouchy.
These last few weeks have been really long. Long hours each week. I did kind of want to take the day off when a notice for a VTO opportunity came up, but since I put in so many hours this week, I don't really want to take off an overtime day, a day that would be entirely overtime pay.
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