Health: good. Switched to grass-fed local beef, 4-5 ounces served twice a month. Still expensive, especially when it's tenderloin. Still could use some exercise.
Work: good enough. Lucky enough to get a SQL Course and a SharePoint course on the weekends. Trying to remain competitive, don't you know.
Savings: addled. Yes, the money's accumulating. But I get distracted. It'd be great to be an Amy Dacyczyn or Vicki Robin and have things pared down to the bone. Did you know neither of those women worked 50-hour weeks in addition to raising a preschooler when they wrote their bestsellers?
Family: acceptable -- spent a rare full weekend with the boy and really enjoyed myself. Went to a birthday party for a tyke and had the rare experience of not feeling inadequate or 'weird' with the other parents. Also, have opted to end the kid's social communication playgroup. I think he's caught up socially to where he needs to be, the summer promises horrendous traffic en route to where the playgroup is and his pathologist is moving away.
Friends: not so good. Work and family and house eat up a lot of time. Am nearing a one-month experiment of eating lunch in every day. Then I'd like to build up some local friends, some of them frugal.
Home: roses are blooming. Am remembering to water the tomato plants a few times a week.
Spiritual: as removed as the Israelites in the desert. "This is not my home environment! How do I adapt? Where do I get my manna? When can I go home?"
Am I Doing Okay? Define the terms
May 25th, 2007 at 10:35 am
May 25th, 2007 at 10:40 am
May 25th, 2007 at 08:53 pm
May 25th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Aw, LuckyRobin, I do work with the smarties down here. I just don't feel I measure up in my 'assemblage of topnotch talent' in our group... they all talk about their paid-off mortgages, flying Cessnas, trips to Europe and China, their Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer training and stock options, meeting Bill Gates. For me a big step up is getting out of paying childcare and an accomplishment is making my Roth IRA, training my son to behave himself at the cinema, or paying for my windows in full. Being one of them, I tend to perceive Canadians are quieter but more 'sincere and real' yet they aren't as open-hearted as and don't smile as widely as the Americans.