junter

at one point when I lived in london and when I spent my first summer in manhattan, I used to write down exactly what I spent every single day. my log of saving went from simply writing things down in a notebook to me saving every single receipt I would get and entering the charges into a crazy excel spreadsheet. the excel spreadsheet thing worked great as I would break things down by category and I really felt I was on track to saving money.

now I don’t have the time to keep an excel log, but I do still save receipts with the intention of opening the box I keep them in and totaling the amounts. I did my first count of receipts less than a year ago right before I moved back to nyc as a way to sort of scare myself and hopefully prevent myself from spending too much money. all I have to say about the experience of adding it all up really opened my eyes as to some of the unnecessary things I would spend money on.

right now I still save receipts, but I’m still spending money a lot more money then I would want. I feel like I might need to go back to using excel.

A few years ago I attended a summer program where I was able to discipline myself to go to bed at 2 and wake up 7 almost every single day for 5 weeks. times have changed and now I probably sleep at 1-2 and wake up at 8. unless I really need to be somewhere I absolutely can not wake up before that.

Given some circumstances that are going to occur next month, I’ve decided I need to get that discipline back and start waking up at 5AM. In less than I month I’ll be taking a test that I am not prepared for whatsoever and in possibly less than a week I’ll be working at a different office location for 3.5 months, adding at least an extra 20-30 minutes to my commute.

Given the new month I think this tuesday should be my first day at waking up at 5.

I absolutely hate the whole online reservations system and after trying almost everyday for 2-3 weeks, I am getting extremely frustrated. I’ve done things such as opening multiple windows to pasting post-it notes on my screen telling me where to point my cursor after I log in at 10AM. Has anyone has been able to get a reservation?