Good Mornthing! [20190307]

[blissmorgan]

It occurred to me that it was getting mildly difficult to track which mornthing post people were commenting on, when checking notifications in my inbox, so I'm trying out a date tag in the subject/headline box to see if that helps me keep things all straightened out.

Birthday time for the lad yesterday was a Huge Success! There was only one thing-present for him, because snowstorm wonked my shopping-with-siblings plans, but it was a thoughtful gift that he very much liked, which is the kind of gift he liked. For post-cake evening plans he had the option of several activities, most of which were solo-with-mom things, but he opted for the whole family to go to the arcade. We all had a blast playing things, and everybody gave him their tickets.

SALM in particular is quite skilled at hitting the jackpot on certain ticket-bearing games, so this was really quite excellent for the boy.

 

Today is payday, and I have blown through all of the bill-paying I need to do this cycle, AND socked money into Savings, AND....still have money left over? WHAT SORCERY is THIS?! I've heard that being poor for a long time can lead to one's spending habits generally going one of two ways, one being that when you get a sum of monies in hand you spend it right away one things that will stick around before the money vanishes, or you turn downright miserly with it. I think I am largely having a tendency to the latter, with brief little bouts of the former.

Although I still haven't picked out a fountain pen.

I have such a complicated and perhaps not completely healthy relationship with my own finances. There's probably a post about that at some point.

But now: WORK, Long Day edition. 10 hours. much productive. very capitalism. wow.

Hello, Blisstopia! <3

Comments

[johncomic]

I dig your date tag idea. And FWIW your algorithm for How To Deal With A Windfall mirrors my own pretty well.

[runcible]

That picture is GREAT!

[joseph_teller]

I've been doing the date tag all along on my daily 'State Of' posts and find it works well for me. Also will help when I have to go back and analyze data for medical stuff.

The Money thing.... I'm good at staying in a budget and having some wiggle room for when unexpected happens that needs $ thrown at it, in a miserly kind of way; but I eventually hit a 'Mental Breaking Point' and need to spend some cash just to not feel chained down. Drives my wife a bit bonkers as she is not good at telling if what I;m doing is covering for an emergency expense or a frivolous one unless I give her details... and then it feels like I have to justify every little purchase, which throws me into a mental grump mode. Especially when she is planning things and not telling me on what she is thinking of using my saved up overflow for. She's just a bit too secretive for her own good at times.

[wa_bob]

Working AND having money after paying necessary things looks allot like Youngest in that picture. What more can you ask for out of life?

[blissmorgan]

Emotional stability and a chart-topping book sale? XD

[blissmorgan]

I know that feel, a bit. Joining finances is difficult. SALM and I keep ours pretty much separate, and while it used to give me some panic (partly because I was bringing in basically no monies, partly because there were financial problems in my history that made it REALLY nerve wracking to not be in the know about how much money actually WAS coming in and where it was being spent), I now have come to really like it. He covers the bills he covers and his own expenses. I do the same with my own. Everything is getting taken care of, and we throw money at one another when circumstances call for it.

Sometimes I still get the mental wibbles about not KNOWING, but it is now well enough established that I don't NEED to that I can cage up those weakening little brainweasels pretty easily.

[blissmorgan]

I wish I had been prepared enough to film him when SALM provided him with the ticket windfall. It was awesome.

[blissmorgan]

I feel like, all things considered, it's probably the most healthy way I can be dealing with my monies right now.

[joseph_teller]

I'm currently trying to squirrel away some $ from the house budget when possible with the goal of getting Amazon Prime so that we get the discount at the Whole Foods that we are forced to use for certain items in our weekly groceries and to get a chance to see the Good Omens show eventually.

Not easy with the recent dietary changes for my health (Fish is expensive, usually twice what I like to pay for meat; and winter vegetable problem will be going on for at least another month).

[blissmorgan]

I hope you're able to make that Prime thing happen for yourselves soon; it sounds like it'll be pretty handy for you once you've got it. I'm able to benefit from Prime Streaming thanks to SALM's mom, who left her Roku with us as a gift and subscribes to it. I am VERY much looking forward to Good Omens.