The best thing happened a little over a month ago. Some switch flipped in my brain and my response to anxiety went from "I'm so overwhelmed that I can't get anything done aside from sitting here thinking about how unnecessarily overwhelmed I am" to CLEAN ALL THE THINGS. It's amazing. Seriously. I finally have a positive and PRODUCTIVE response to something that used to be so negative. It helps me sleep a little better at night. I freaking love waking up to a clean house. Taking a bit of time to clean most nights also prevents that dreaded "spending the majority of Sunday scrambling with chores" habit that we were in.
Greg and I are finally tackling our finances head-on. We sat down and created a budget, made a few long-term goals, pulled up our credit report (ouch) to see what needs the most improvement, and are ready to knock out the rest of our debt. Although we have knocked out a serious amount of credit card debt over the last 2 years, we still have a significant amount to get rid of. I dealt with life-stress and being sick alllll the time last year by going on ALL the vacations. Even though all of our vacations and related expenses were paid in cash, we were still being irresponsible by vacationing while our old debt and student loans sat there accruing interest. On a happier note, we have accrued a pretty decent amount of equity on our tiny little house over the last 4 years and one of my (small) student loans will be paid off in a week! Progress.
I am soda-free, people! It wasn't a resolution, it just kind of happened with the snow storm and I decided to continue rolling with it. This probably seems like the most minor, trivial thing to people who don't have a soda habit but it's a big deal to this former Diet Coke guzzler. Part of me wishes I was formerly drinking something that had calories so this change would result in weight loss, but that's okay. I know it's better for my health to not be guzzling a bunch of aspartame.
I think I'm finally getting this adulting thing right. Maybe this means I'll eventually stop doing things like eating brownies for breakfast.
