State of the Amber
Bills paid for another month. I tried to go to sleep early, but did not sleep all that /well/. Despite this, I made myself get up at seven in the morning, so that my sleep schedule will reboot itself. So I am a little groggy. I took back the rentals and the library books, picked up more of the latter (whee, libraries!) for happiness. I also got a key to the apartment weight room, and went down there for a little exercise. Man, am I out of shape. But, I'm going to try and get down there at least for a little bit every day, and do some free weights and the weird little machine that goes up and down and kills my legs dead augh.
I'm back at work starting tomorrow. And, even better (bleh), we get to start off the work year with a full-day meeting. Which is another reason I want to make sure that I get enough sleep tonight.
But, honestly, I'm trying to keep a good, happy demeanor. I sulked a bit because of certain things, and I do have a sinking sensation. But y'know what? It won't kill me. And I have some new ideas that I want to put into practice, and I'm not doing the student organization any longer, so I'm going to go into this with the idea of just trying to really shake things out the way I want them to go, and try to make something I can be proud of by the end of the year. That, after all, is the important part. And I learned that money is not as tight as I feared it would be over the summer, even /with/ the car trouble. So that makes me feel good, and this year I'm going to put more away in the savings; my goal is three-to-five thousand dollars in savings by the end of the school year. That's enough of a cushion to get me through a serious, non-medical setback. And then I can start making some serious inroads to Roths and the like.
I started writing again. Yes, I know the plan was to write over the summer, but I sucked too hard to do it. But that's another thing I want to try and really /do/ this year. Get some real writing done. Don't know if any of it will ever be publishable; I doubt it, but I do want to at least have something completed.
I'm back at work starting tomorrow. And, even better (bleh), we get to start off the work year with a full-day meeting. Which is another reason I want to make sure that I get enough sleep tonight.
But, honestly, I'm trying to keep a good, happy demeanor. I sulked a bit because of certain things, and I do have a sinking sensation. But y'know what? It won't kill me. And I have some new ideas that I want to put into practice, and I'm not doing the student organization any longer, so I'm going to go into this with the idea of just trying to really shake things out the way I want them to go, and try to make something I can be proud of by the end of the year. That, after all, is the important part. And I learned that money is not as tight as I feared it would be over the summer, even /with/ the car trouble. So that makes me feel good, and this year I'm going to put more away in the savings; my goal is three-to-five thousand dollars in savings by the end of the school year. That's enough of a cushion to get me through a serious, non-medical setback. And then I can start making some serious inroads to Roths and the like.
I started writing again. Yes, I know the plan was to write over the summer, but I sucked too hard to do it. But that's another thing I want to try and really /do/ this year. Get some real writing done. Don't know if any of it will ever be publishable; I doubt it, but I do want to at least have something completed.