Today I’m home sick from work ingesting metric tons of Trader Joe’s Honey Apple Butter spread on top of literally anything in the kitchen. If I had a primarily work from home schedule I would have to receive nutrients via feeding tube just to control my intake.
I have been stalking—click tab, refresh, refresh, move to another tab, click tab again, repeat—my GMail for the last two days awaiting the power bill. Being that we’ve had an unseasonably mild winter, I’ve been anticipating the arrival of the e-bill like a trial verdict.
I have ants in my pants the first week of each month until the bill comes and I can copy and paste the number into my spreadsheet and total and re-total the monthly bills, compare them to the last two years, and essentially assess the tone of my entire month going forward. That’s a lot of weight to assign a power bill, I know, but there is something about the process of working all month to make sure we aren’t living fast and loose with the lights and cranking up the heat until we are, oh I don’t know, actually comfortable, and then seeing those efforts reflected in a dollar amount.
This teeters on the borderline between financial responsibility and turning into my dad.
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cadyheron said:
im jealous of this. I wish i could track my finances instead of playing the i cant spend more than $1.25 until thursday at midnight or i’ll over draw my account game.
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joannafreed said:
hahahaa. working from home is SO BAD for my ass. and can you please manage my money? going to start calling you merrill. (as in merrill lynch, get it?)
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phillyfilly said:
i heart you. (also, i miss you)
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