Look, an Update
Well, the holidays are officially over, and everything is returning to normal. Apart from doing a bit more driving and spending more money than I would have preferred, they weren’t too bad this year. Highlights included visits to both my mom’s house and to Dad and Irene’s, including home cooked meals at both, as well as the Cousins’ Christmas in Peoria, which involved spending time with my nieces.
A couple New Year’s resolutions:
- Lose weight. I know this is one of those clichéd ones, but, for the sake of my future health, I think it’s necessary. This will also help with my back problems, which brings us to:
- Fix what ails me. I really need to get my back taken care of, or at least under control. While I can live with it as it is right now, it’s causing me problems sleeping which affects everything else I do. I also need to finally get my toe fixed.
- Save more, spend less. I’ve got a number of potential large purchases coming up this year, including needing a new vehicle since I don’t think Kato will last as a primary car for another 12 months, and I’ll need money for them. This means I really need to try to cut back on any non-essential spending. In addition, I need to get all the bills that I owe paid off, to try to rebuild my credit in preparation for these purchases.
Those are the big three. I’d also like to try to travel this year if my finances will permit me. It’s been nearly six years since I’ve last been on a plane, and almost as long, not counting the three day excursion to Sault St. Marie, since I’ve been out of the Midwest. I’m also going to try to update this blog more often.
Theoretically my work will be rearranging our pay scales in the coming weeks, meaning a raise for me. If this money can all be devoted to paying off bills or put into savings, this will help with goal three. However, I don’t know when this will actually happen as Dave hasn’t announced it to the company yet: I only know of it because of an IM conversation I had with him.
It’s currently less than 30° outside, and really windy, so we might have a chance of actually getting a winter this year. Alternately, all this wind could bring us warmer air. I’d prefer the former, as we’ve not had any snow worth mentioning so far.