A good day.

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I'm not feeling the pain that can come with the long day yesterday.  Sure, I'm not exactly chipper, or jumping out of my seat to go do either.  But on the whole today is shaping up pretty well.  The neighbor boy stopped by to water and mow.  I have suggested what he makes, if he keeps the lawn green by watering twice a week, and mows once a week, and he about choked.  No, it isn't all that much, but for a 10 year old... pure gold!  When you put it to them a certain way it gets their attention.  Since, for the last week and this week, he has been doing just that, he will get half of that on payday.  Next month, perhaps, he will keep up on it a bit better.  To be fair it has been hot and we haven't had rain in 21 days, as of today.  That is brutal on lawns.  If nothing else, at least today there is a beautiful cool wind.  It isn't even a breeze, but a true wind.  Oh does that help.

I am just going along today.  If I can get to some dishes, laundry, or a few other things, so be it.  If not, so be it.  I don't have the gumption to push.  But I woke easily, I'm idling well, life is good.  I will, probably, tonight, when the sun goes down, make a stab at sneaking to town.  I need milk, a few other groceries, cat foods, and... it's fun.

I have overspent this month, if on things worth over spending on.  What took me over was the decision to buy both the 9 mm reloading kit plus reloading consumables for that.  Everything else was right on target.  On the good side, I still haven't dipped into my nest egg.  I have more than what I intend for just that, if too I am saving for a .308, a larger long term food purchase, and a few other bigger ticket items.  Still, I am ahead, just a little behind of being quite so far ahead, but only of where I could be give everything, being ultimately very far behind, if... you know what I mean.  Uhrm, is that a self-played head game, a complex algorithm of money-life-time, or just crazy?  *grins*  All I know is that I have goals I am behind, money I will never be ahead with, time of some unknown length to prep, and many other things coming and going, but that with the givens I am doing pretty good.  I do my best, and, really, I am getting ahead.  But in the maelstrom I never quite know, for sure, anything.  I need to stop once in a while and take stock.  Uhrm, when I am too broke or too tired to do more is a good time, unless I am way too tired.

I probably will go light with spending this coming month.  The only thing I will definitely be putting out for is a chronometer and my normal short/midterm food item purchases, plus regular expenses.  With my mother coming in August, probably, I want to have some stores of money.  I think I will put off doing floor work with her this year.  I will try to make her a deal instead.  I will buy the supplies, over this coming year, for her next visit.  I plan on stripping down to the flooring structure and putting in brand new sub-flooring, flooring, and then the top layer of some sort.  What I will do is include her in the decision making.  I want to take her with while I decide what type of flooring to put down as the top layer.  She loves that sort of thing, and she has some solid input on these things.  Actually, while she is here, and with some measurements taken, I might just buy the overlay we pick (to ease her mind, if it is within my budget).  She may not have been good at providing a father, but she was as close to a one-man-band in parenting as a guy could have hoped.  And she still ain't too bad "for an old broad", as my friend might say.  *chuckles*  (Hell no I won't say that to her face!)

You know though, I moved to a right area, I bought a home, I am loading up on food and rotating it, I have some long term stocks, I have figured out food so that I don't starve, waste, and both and some of it is home delivered, I have someone doing my lawn, I am gearing up, getting tools, and learning.  Yes, slowly.  It is all painfully slow.  But then, given my income and health I would say I am moving at a stellar pace.  No, really.  And though I don't like it...  I do have to, sometimes, back off and just appreciate the beauty of the whole operation.  Think of it this way... How long can it take a sniper to move two hundred yards?  Or, think of it this way if neither of those work for you... shut up.

Have a great day.