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Couple of updates to cover.
Birthday!
My birthday's coming up. March 3rd. Those of you who wish to get/do something for me, mark it on your calendars. Don't care if it gets to me late, or if all you can do is send well-wishes. Just knowing people are thinking of me is enough. ^.^ I'll post up a wishlist sometime, maybe in a journal or in scraps. And those of you with Steam may look up my wishlist there. I've done my best to organize it according to what I want most right now.
Coming up on 30. Hoo boy. Let's hope I can make more of the next year than I did of this one.
YNAB - You Need A Budget
Picked up this little program for a free trial about a week ago. Took me a little bit to get things set up right, and still not sure if it's quite correct. And a little unsure how to budget the money that I do have. But at least now I have something to help me figure out how to spend my money, and perhaps help me get out of debt. Has a lot of nice features and I recommend it if you have trouble making a budget. It might help you, and you can always just delete it if it's too much trouble.
Best feature though? You can't budget money you don't have. Won't do it. So if that's a problem for you, either learn to live with it, or delete the program. I'd recommend the former; living without a budget got me into this mess! Let's hope this will help me get out of it.
Anxiety Therapy
Of course, the real problem may go deeper than making a budget. I had an appointment with a therapist two days ago, and after about a couple hours, she set me up with a guy to help me learn how to handle my anxiety. Basically, I'm stuck in a loop. Stuff comes up, I get stressed, I take steps to avoid it, stress goes away. Lather, rinse, repeat for most of your life. Some of it may be spiritual, granted, and I'm gonna be looking to prayer to help me through this. But if there's also mental stuff here, I need to get that squared away too, and there's no sense in avoiding life all the time.
I want a better life. I want more than the comfortable rut I'm in. It's turned into hell for me. I need out, and if that means suffering... however small it might be despite my warped perspective... so be it. I need a change. If I don't learn how to handle stress in a healthy, positive way, I won't get anywhere. And God knows what will happen when my parents die and I end up on the streets. I'd like to be out of this house before any of us siblings have to think about funeral expenses. Time to, as my dad would say, "Toughen up". Time to get a thick skin and learn to persevere despite my feelings.
Time to grow up and be who I'm meant to be. Say a prayer for me, all my Brothers and Sisters in the faith. I need Jesus more than ever on this journey. Call him up and send some divine intervention my way. And a legion or two of angels. Knowing the devil, I'm gonna need the back-up.
I may not like the change, but I need it. Let's get going.
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That's all to report for now. I'll post up other stuff when I think of it! Thanks for reading!
Birthday!
My birthday's coming up. March 3rd. Those of you who wish to get/do something for me, mark it on your calendars. Don't care if it gets to me late, or if all you can do is send well-wishes. Just knowing people are thinking of me is enough. ^.^ I'll post up a wishlist sometime, maybe in a journal or in scraps. And those of you with Steam may look up my wishlist there. I've done my best to organize it according to what I want most right now.
Coming up on 30. Hoo boy. Let's hope I can make more of the next year than I did of this one.
YNAB - You Need A Budget
Picked up this little program for a free trial about a week ago. Took me a little bit to get things set up right, and still not sure if it's quite correct. And a little unsure how to budget the money that I do have. But at least now I have something to help me figure out how to spend my money, and perhaps help me get out of debt. Has a lot of nice features and I recommend it if you have trouble making a budget. It might help you, and you can always just delete it if it's too much trouble.
Best feature though? You can't budget money you don't have. Won't do it. So if that's a problem for you, either learn to live with it, or delete the program. I'd recommend the former; living without a budget got me into this mess! Let's hope this will help me get out of it.
Anxiety Therapy
Of course, the real problem may go deeper than making a budget. I had an appointment with a therapist two days ago, and after about a couple hours, she set me up with a guy to help me learn how to handle my anxiety. Basically, I'm stuck in a loop. Stuff comes up, I get stressed, I take steps to avoid it, stress goes away. Lather, rinse, repeat for most of your life. Some of it may be spiritual, granted, and I'm gonna be looking to prayer to help me through this. But if there's also mental stuff here, I need to get that squared away too, and there's no sense in avoiding life all the time.
I want a better life. I want more than the comfortable rut I'm in. It's turned into hell for me. I need out, and if that means suffering... however small it might be despite my warped perspective... so be it. I need a change. If I don't learn how to handle stress in a healthy, positive way, I won't get anywhere. And God knows what will happen when my parents die and I end up on the streets. I'd like to be out of this house before any of us siblings have to think about funeral expenses. Time to, as my dad would say, "Toughen up". Time to get a thick skin and learn to persevere despite my feelings.
Time to grow up and be who I'm meant to be. Say a prayer for me, all my Brothers and Sisters in the faith. I need Jesus more than ever on this journey. Call him up and send some divine intervention my way. And a legion or two of angels. Knowing the devil, I'm gonna need the back-up.
I may not like the change, but I need it. Let's get going.
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That's all to report for now. I'll post up other stuff when I think of it! Thanks for reading!
You can still enter things manually if you want, using your bank statements, but be careful! If you don't go back the same amount of time for each account, you may have errors. It might also help if use the designation your bank or CU does for each account, so it's easier to remember what ends up where. I used the letter and number combo my CU does, which made it much easier to figure out what got transferred where.
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Gratz on the therapy btw. Sometimes talking with somebody can really help.