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live a peaceful life (read all 2 entries…)
on hold?

I feel like putting this goal on hold. I need to find a job, be a better mom, and change our financial circumstances drastically. I have no time for peace. The ludicrousness of that statement does not escape me, and yet this is how I feel.



be a better programmer (read all 5 entries…)
oop

is what I am studying. Polymorphism: I already knew it and now I know the name.



pass my driving test (read all 4 entries…)
need to borrow a car

The one I have does not have working blinkers. I use hand signals, but they will not let me take the test without blinkers.



change my username
no good

the people at robot-whatever say they’ve not implemented it.



get a better job (read all 8 entries…)
making a list

I have located two jobs, and am continuing to look. Gotta get references next.



get out of debt (read all 18 entries…)
unexpected dividend

So far, we’ve been successful in not charging for 2 months, and I’ve found an unexpected dividend. I can schedule a direct draft out of the account before the bill arrives, even without getting one. I can even schedule it as a repeating payment. B/c I know what the amount is that I pay to that account, and I know there are no new charges, it is easy.



get out of debt (read all 18 entries…)
smidge

I applied to transfer some high APR balances to a new card with a teaser rate followed by a low fixed.



plan my work and work my plan (read all 8 entries…)
focus deficit

I got to work today and felt so much pressure and just sorta melted. I know that I am seriously hamstrung this week with a lack of child care, so the one day I have to work and I just blew it. I could not focus to save my life. Of course, it does not help that the a/c has been broken for a month.



live debt-free (read all 5 entries…)
checks

Hmmm, DH picked up reimbursement checks from the dentist’s and deposited them and then spent the money. Major slide back.



get a better job (read all 8 entries…)
bad news

Had a meeting with my boss. She basically does not see me working there in a year. This is not what she said when we last met 6 months ago, and she contradicted several things she said in that meeting.



get out of debt (read all 18 entries…)
X and a schedule

So, total min payments is X, and I can pay per month, X plus 59.75. So, I made min payments + 59.75 to the highest APR card. I also paid the entire work reimbursement check on that card (not the one I charged them on,) & now the balance < $10. One down, 7 to go. Next month, I WILL pay the min on the next highest card, PLUS the min I was paying on this one, plus 59.75. You see it here, be my witness.



live debt-free (read all 5 entries…)
so far

Now is the time of the month when we would typically hit the cards. We are both sneaking food at work in various ways for lunch. Eating eggs,celery, carrots for dinner. We walk a lot instead of charging the gas. It is the 19th. Can we make it?



figure out what's wrong with my left knee (read all 2 entries…)
bruised bone

My physical therapist thinks that I bruised my patella-femoral joint when I fractured my ankle this winter, and I think she might be right.



have better posture (read all 3 entries…)
ballet-girl

There is the girl I sit near a lot, and she is a life-long ballet dancer. Her posture is really awesome. I try not to covet her posture, but it is hard. Maybe if I make progress on my fitness goals I can take ballet classes in the fall? I think I’d enjoy it. They all look really regal.



be a better programmer (read all 5 entries…)
progress

Ok, he liked the specs. He disapproves of visual basic. Says it is out of date, and that everyone is slow in project development in it.

He wants me to switch to vb.net or c#.

I’ll see if I can borrow someone’s copy of either before I ask my boss to cough up the dough.



improve my writing (read all 2 entries…)
the critics are cruel

when I get my papers back, the reviewers are just very cruel. However, this is my opportunity tolearn how to write exactly what I mean and nothing else. But, very unpleasantly.



be a good mom (read all 4 entries…)
less yelling as a way of motivating

is what I mean specificaly by this. So, the lad looks at me defiantly, grabs something and throws it across the room at me, I am to do something other than yell at him so loud he cries. But, what exactly is that thing that I do?



re-establish lost friendships
wrote to

some random person on the internet with the same unusual name and sense of humour (from her webapge at least) as a long-lost pal of mine, her picture looked quite like her but 15 years later, it is kinda hard. She did not write back, so there you go.



figure out what's wrong with my left knee (read all 2 entries…)
called

my doctor and asked her to call me back.



pay off credit cards (read all 7 entries…)
tension between goals

I could teach in the Fall and allocate the 5k in pay debt. However, it’d interfere with my goal of being more productive at work.
I guess the answer is: work hard over the summer getting work stuff done that is due in the fall and prepare the class in advance. I’ve taught it twice already.
I have MAJOR deadlines on 5 Aug and 1 Oct. The kind where you do, in fact, drop dead if you do not make them. So, the class could really compete against those.



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