The Best-Laid Plans
Dec. 20th, 2018 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousme I don't know why I constantly overestimate my level of energy to get things done. I am an eternal optimist, I guess. Anyway, I got a fair bit done this week. I got 95% of my errands done (I forgot a couple of things, because I was silly and didn't make a proper list), I got a tree which I will decorate probably tomorrow evening, I had my therapy appointment and got my blood tests done this morning. All in all, it wasn't too bad.
Of course, what I didn't get done was cleaning the damned house. I should have spent a few hours doing that this morning and I just... didn't. I am really bad at this whole housekeeping stuff, and I've been even worse than usual ever since I had to move into this house in a hurry nearly two years ago. I don't know, I think I resented having to move out of the house I really loved that was so close to work, and into this house which is all wrong for me and is expensive to boot. Anyway, today has fallen on the "nope" side of cleaning or even tidying some of the clutter. Of course, the day is young. I plan to stream for about three hours, and then I have to do my lunch prep for the week, but I can at least get the kitchen and downstairs bathroom clean at that point in time. So, uh, maybe I'll get it done? I know myself, and it might not get done. Who knows.
On the plus side, I have a plan in place to move out in about a year's time. I've been slowly squirreling away money, and if I keep up my current rate of squirreling, I should have enough for a reasonable down payment by December of 2019. That means I can start house shopping and maybe get a new place by early 2020. Moving in the winter kind of sucks, though, so I might hold off truly looking until February, so that I can ask for a move in date in April. Homeowners usually like a 60 to 90 day window to pack up their house and organize their lives.
This is all contingent on my getting approved for a mortgage, of course, and my credit rating is sort of shit these days. It's my own fault, because I tend to get distracted and pay bills late (I have a few problems with forgetting to renew information on recurring or automatic payments, which then gets me into trouble), but I think if I can show that I have enough for a good deposit and am not significantly in debt and have a more than decent salary, then the bank will approve me in spite of the credit rating. I'm also trying to get my payments and stuff sorted out so that a year's worth of timely payments will get said credit rating from "shitty" to "less shitty." I feel kind of stupid about that, but the ADHD diagnosis goes a long way to explaining why I have never gotten my act together enough for this sort of thing. I am sort of good, but also sort of not, and it's the sort of not that always gets me into trouble.
This is all fascinating, right? Didn't you miss my posts about daily minutia? :P
Classes start again in just over two weeks, so I need to pay my tuition, and put money aside for rent, and generally be a responsible fucking adult. I will be making a new budget for 2019, and part of that budget will involve not stopping at Tim Horton's for breakfast anymore, which will be both better for my health and better for my bank account. It's just so much easier than trying to wrangle breakfast in the morning on my own. Still, if I am organized, I will be making breakfast ahead of time in the form of oatmeal in a jar. I did it for a couple of weeks in--November? October? I forget, but it was during a brief window of better organization on my part--and it was absolutely delicious and decently filling. So meal prep is back on my list of things I will be doing. I am actually not waiting for the New Year to start, either, I am doing it tonight for the next five work days.
I really don't want to go back to work, but the good news is that tomorrow is pretty much the only day until January 9th that I will have to deal with my bosses. After this it's weekend shift, then night shift on a statutory holiday, then I work the 31st and the 1st (another statutory holiday) during which the bosses are unlikely to be there, and then more night shifts. All this means that I don't have to work with them for about three weeks, which is fan-fucking-tastic. I haven't really gone into detail about what a shit show work has become, but I will probably do that in the next few days. In the meantime, it's making me loathe going into work and having to deal with the bosses on my day shifts, which sucks. I used to enjoy my job, and now it's nothing but stressful. Meh.
Okay. I am off to get my stream started, and then hopefully meal prep and a bit of cleaning before I head to bed!
Of course, what I didn't get done was cleaning the damned house. I should have spent a few hours doing that this morning and I just... didn't. I am really bad at this whole housekeeping stuff, and I've been even worse than usual ever since I had to move into this house in a hurry nearly two years ago. I don't know, I think I resented having to move out of the house I really loved that was so close to work, and into this house which is all wrong for me and is expensive to boot. Anyway, today has fallen on the "nope" side of cleaning or even tidying some of the clutter. Of course, the day is young. I plan to stream for about three hours, and then I have to do my lunch prep for the week, but I can at least get the kitchen and downstairs bathroom clean at that point in time. So, uh, maybe I'll get it done? I know myself, and it might not get done. Who knows.
On the plus side, I have a plan in place to move out in about a year's time. I've been slowly squirreling away money, and if I keep up my current rate of squirreling, I should have enough for a reasonable down payment by December of 2019. That means I can start house shopping and maybe get a new place by early 2020. Moving in the winter kind of sucks, though, so I might hold off truly looking until February, so that I can ask for a move in date in April. Homeowners usually like a 60 to 90 day window to pack up their house and organize their lives.
This is all contingent on my getting approved for a mortgage, of course, and my credit rating is sort of shit these days. It's my own fault, because I tend to get distracted and pay bills late (I have a few problems with forgetting to renew information on recurring or automatic payments, which then gets me into trouble), but I think if I can show that I have enough for a good deposit and am not significantly in debt and have a more than decent salary, then the bank will approve me in spite of the credit rating. I'm also trying to get my payments and stuff sorted out so that a year's worth of timely payments will get said credit rating from "shitty" to "less shitty." I feel kind of stupid about that, but the ADHD diagnosis goes a long way to explaining why I have never gotten my act together enough for this sort of thing. I am sort of good, but also sort of not, and it's the sort of not that always gets me into trouble.
This is all fascinating, right? Didn't you miss my posts about daily minutia? :P
Classes start again in just over two weeks, so I need to pay my tuition, and put money aside for rent, and generally be a responsible fucking adult. I will be making a new budget for 2019, and part of that budget will involve not stopping at Tim Horton's for breakfast anymore, which will be both better for my health and better for my bank account. It's just so much easier than trying to wrangle breakfast in the morning on my own. Still, if I am organized, I will be making breakfast ahead of time in the form of oatmeal in a jar. I did it for a couple of weeks in--November? October? I forget, but it was during a brief window of better organization on my part--and it was absolutely delicious and decently filling. So meal prep is back on my list of things I will be doing. I am actually not waiting for the New Year to start, either, I am doing it tonight for the next five work days.
I really don't want to go back to work, but the good news is that tomorrow is pretty much the only day until January 9th that I will have to deal with my bosses. After this it's weekend shift, then night shift on a statutory holiday, then I work the 31st and the 1st (another statutory holiday) during which the bosses are unlikely to be there, and then more night shifts. All this means that I don't have to work with them for about three weeks, which is fan-fucking-tastic. I haven't really gone into detail about what a shit show work has become, but I will probably do that in the next few days. In the meantime, it's making me loathe going into work and having to deal with the bosses on my day shifts, which sucks. I used to enjoy my job, and now it's nothing but stressful. Meh.
Okay. I am off to get my stream started, and then hopefully meal prep and a bit of cleaning before I head to bed!
