Nattering about finances and stuff

Well, there's nothing like a good financial crisis to give one the kick in the pants one needs to get one's life back in order.

( Preliminary discussions with the Parental Units )

Funnily enough, now that the worst of that crisis is over, I find I'm not nearly as worried anymore. It took that to smack me upside the head, but I'm glad it happened, in an odd way. It made me realise that I'm in a holding pattern, financially speaking, that isn't good for me.

( In which I natter about the car and a nifty thing called CommunAuto )

( What It All Means For The Future )

After all that's sorted itself out, then I can start focussing on the things that I wanted to do this summer. Yes, there was a moment of patting myself on the back about four weeks ago because I thought my finances were finally starting to come together, and I started making plans. Hubris, I know, and the Powers That Be let me know in no uncertain terms. Still, if I couldn't make plans for the future, then I'd probably go stark raving mad (and we all know that's a short trip for me, so why tempt fate?). I'll take my chances with the hubris.

Castles in Spain (aka plans)

In my previous post I mentioned that Plans were afoot. I was going to write all about them in that post, and realised that the post was already hideously long and rambly, so I split off the plans into this post instead.

( Plannage behind the cut! You've been warned. )

That's about it for my plans for the near-to-middling future. It's already a lot, I figure, and to plan more for that space of time would be a little too stupidly optimistic, even for me.

I do have a question for my fellow Montrealers: with whom do you insure your homes/apartments? I'm looking into switching companies, because I'm not especially thrilled with the service I've received from my current people, not to mention that they're kind of expensive. I'd like to review my options, and so if you have good people to recommend (other than AXA, because they suck), I'd like to hear about it, please. :)