August 13, 2018 7:40 PM
Mid Year Resolutions: Part 1
Part 1 because I get super ambitious when I set goals for myself, knowing that I won't reach all of them, but with the hopes that at least one of the goals actually sticks.
I've always been a really frugal person. Growing up, I just figured that if something cost money I couldn't have it. It wasn't until college that I realized I had some money, and I could just buy things. Now during college my goal was just to find an internship so I could secure a stable job where I sat in a cubicle and typed words on the computer for 8 hours a day. And I did that. But shortly into my job I felt bored and unhappy. Was this really what my life was going to be like for the next 40 years? It was at this point that I stumbled across Mr. Money Mustache and learned about the wonders of early retirement. Since then, that has been my long-term life goal. I could just take my natural frugality and put that into overdrive.
That was about 3 years ago. Yeah, I've been saving money and investing it, but I've still been spending way more than I need to. I needed to make more concrete goals.
Spending $30 on food a week
This is the first of what I'm calling my "Mid-Year Resolutions". (I know, the year is more than halfway over.) Why $30? I don't know, it just seemed like a reasonable number that didn't require me to drastically change my diet. I just finished reading On A Dollar A Day in which a couple tries to first eat only $1 worth of food every day, and then tries to eat food based on the average amount people get on food stamps. Things like this inspire me and remind me that I'm spending a lot more on food than I need to.
So far it seems to be going well. I've meal prepped and cooked everything for the week during the weekend, and I spent just over $29 at the grocery store without actually thinking about how much everything cost before putting it on my list. I've also told people about my goal so that should also help me stay on track. I plan on posting an update on Friday night to see if the amount of food I cooked actually lasts me as long as I expected.
September 14, 2017 10:07 PM
Holy crap, this still exists
Yeah. Just like the title says.
My life has been really good. I love going to work. I can't believe how much I actually enjoy going to work everyday. And I've been so focused on just doing work and then blobbing around afterwards. But blobbing is over. I've got to focus on saving money, cooking, learning, all that jazz.
I'm trying to decide what fun thing to add to this site next. I get a little overwhelmed looking at the ridiculous code that's somehow made this site, and I wonder why I decided to put a website together using C. Since I sort of have a login feature in place, I think I'll try and add a page for me to make blog posts using a web interface instead of this silly little bash script I wrote up.
January 2, 2017 12:27 PM
Happy New Year
I'm sick :/
I have to go back to work tomorrow and I have all these emails to read and all this work to do. I need a vacation after my vacation.
My one new year's resolution: sleep earlier!!! Last night I went to sleep at 12:30am. That's a good enough start, right?
September 11, 2016 7:17 PM
Getting Back to the Swing of Things
This past month I've been SUPER lazy. I've spent so much money and haven't cooked and barely exercised. Work has been super busy as well. But now the school year is starting again (for those people who still go to school) and work is slowing down, so I think it's time for me to get back on track.
I did a huge restructuring of the code and also fixed a couple of bugs that I noticed. There is now a login feature. It's pretty useless at the moment.
My SO bought me Guardian's Crusade. It's this awesome RPG game for PlayStation. It was probably made for little kids, but I don't care, it's fun (: Taking my time on it though. Currently at Level 30 (ish) and I need to rescue some dude from Trisken.
I reread Peter and the Starcatchers and then read Peter and the Shadow Thieves. Now I'm on to book three: Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. I'm not as engrossed by the stories as I used to be, but they're still fantastic books.
I'm trying to get back into learning things, and right now I'm going through an introductory circuits textbook. I probably already learned all of this stuff at one point, but I need a refresher because I feel like my knowledge of circuits is very limited right now.
I will run today. With Pokemon Go on.
February 8, 2016 5:44 PM
Work, work, work
I feel like I'm working too much. Last Sunday, I had to work for five hours because of something I screwed up earlier in the week. I decided to leave early on Friday to compensate for that, but I still ended up staying at work an hour later then I planned, and I was thinking about work the whole time on the bus ride home. I've been thinking about work so much that it's seeping into my dreams at night. And I hate my dreams.
I've been thinking about the fact that work eats up so much time in my day, and I really do want to start working remotely at some point this year. I just have some goals I want to achieve before that point.
- Go to sleep by 10pm
- Get to work at 7am
- Leave work at 4pm
On another note, I filed my taxes! So early this year. Eagerly awaiting my refund.
I really do want to get back to adding more things to this site as well. I've just been really busy with work and by the time I've showered, had dinner, and cleaned everything, I realize it's 9pm already. And I don't like to have too much mental stimulation after 9.
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