Bah-Bah-Blogging

I don't get it. I will go through the day and think, "Hmmm...I should write about that." Then I sit down, pull up "new blog post" and....nada.

Sometimes I am just brimming with things to write about. Other times. Dry. Like the desert.

Tonight's a dry like the desert.

So I will ramble.

I was sick today. Last night really. Now it's in my throat. So I stayed home from work in hopes of recovering. While I was home I worked on finances. When I was single, I had this whole system thing going. Then, after Garrett and I got married, and I was pretty much jobless for a year, I think I just fell into this "I don't know where the money goes and I don't care" vortex.

Now that I'm back to contributing to society (or at least to our back account), I feel the need to know where things are coming from and where they're going, when they're going, who's sending them there, and if we're gonna live to see another month (woah, dramatic much?)

So today, I broke out the calculator, excel sheet, and passwords to all the bills and accounts I could come up with.

Not surprisingly, Garrett came home and was a little overwhelmed by all of it. All the sudden, someone else (me!) cared about what was going down with the finances. I think he was surprised, a little confused, and maybe even slightly threatened. I think it made him feel like I thought he wasn't doing a good job with all of it. He was, though! He's done a great job with finances this year! It's probably the last thing we worry about. We do have conversations every now and then about curbing my spending. He's not naturally a spender, and it's not that I'm a huge spender, either, but I'm used to being able to use my money to buy the things I want, when I want to. It's weird to ask permission again. No, permission isn't the right word. It's like permission, but a little softer. But seriously, he's got it all under control!

So here I am, feeling like I've just accomplished something huge by trying to get us all organized, and he's just thinking that I think he's a failure at keeping us alive! (Maybe slightly overstated?)

Don't worry. We talked it out and then had a great time (I love stuff like this for some reason) figuring out which paycheck this bill was coming out of, and who was paying that bill when. I'm still working on a nice neat excel sheet, and hopefully we'll be debt free by May!

And then we ate a nice dinner of tuna steaks, couscous, and guacamole. Yum!

It's just amazing to me that people can come at something from completely different perspectives at times.