Monday, 1:07pm, a little glimmer

 So, I just cooked a pot of beans and rice, cleared my inbox, loaded the dishwasher, and responded to my brother. All things I was not looking forward to doing today.

Once I cleared my inbox, I realized there wasn't much I needed to do today. And for the first time since new job = no meetings!  This completely boosted my mood.

I even went on to check on some of my accounts with bigger balances for the bank bonus (dread). Chase charged me $5 monthly fee so now I'm not sure if I'll get the bonus because the required daily balance for the bonus went down by $5. I'm hopeful that they average the daily balance so if I boost the rest of the months, it'll average out. I'll find out in 3 months, I guess. 

I signed up for the legal plan at New Job. I'm hoping to leave a will, where once I wasn't. Ideally, I wish I could entrust someone in the US to send money to my parents overseas after I die. There is one aunt I think would do it, but we've just never talked about that kind of thing before. So I don't know. 

If I were really swinging for the fences today, I'd like to:

- Sign up for FreeCE

- Finish the remaining CEs this week

- Buy iPad keyboard (I was originally going to just get a foam shatterproof case, but my boss said her husband uses a little external keyboard and works on that. I wasn't really planning on using the iPad for regular work, but this might be a better option than a brightly colored kidproof case.) 

- Brush and floss (meh)

More thoughts on the iPad.

I was initially concerned about keeping the iPad in a kidproof case because it looked childish, albeit functional. I think I don't really know yet how I'm going to be using it or if I'll ever need to travel for business. I can't think of a time, when I would use iPad instead of laptop while traveling.  I just don't use mobile devices like that yet. It's really hard to think long-term when my long-term plans are defaulted to a different direction. But if I move that to the background, if I imagine a future in this role, there would be an instance where I could possibly travel or try to multi-task for appointments and could utilize an iPad with keyboard. Just the other day when I took my car in for service, I took the iPad just in case I was running late and needed to log-in to a meeting. Okay, I guess I'll just price it for now and see how I feel.