Friday Check-In

 It's Friday of my fourth week at New Job.

Not much to report as I'm just passing time until 4p when I can officially log off.

Today was a light day. 

I went to get pizza at one of those fast fired chains. I saw pizza on a TV show I was watching and thought I could eat some pizza.

It wasn't too bad. I liked it because they had dairy free cheese and unlimited toppings for the same price. 

I've been trying to think of good eats to celebrate my retirement from the call center, new job (slash promotion), and just overall good vibes.

Nothing yet. I want a cake but can't think of anything I want to make.

On the good news front - I put one load of dishes in dishwasher. I think next summer I'm going to go to strictly paper goods. Dishes are annoying. 

Why haven't they invented disposable pots yet???

There's something so immensely satisfying when "cleaning the kitchen" is just putting things in the trash.

I think next year I might splurge for a robo-vac upstairs.

The linoleum is peeling in the kitchen. I thought linoleum was more durable than that? I mean how much cheaper of flooring can you get? 

Not much on for this weekend - just lounging around. Nothing new.

As for money matters, I may have already mentioned but:

HSA safely made it to Broker. 

After 1 week of no movement with IRA CDs, I tried again. This time I got confirmation that I indeed had Roth IRA CDs when the online snapshot was showing just regular IRAs. So the two traditional IRA accounts I opened were for nothing.  Luckily, I was able to close one at Broker 1 with a chatbot. 

I moved even more money from Regular Savings to Broker 1. I only have $250 in my regular savings account. That's the leanest I've been! (Reader, note that I have other emergency levers outside of regular savings). 

I am trying for 3 more Bank Bonuses. Haven't attempted any all year. Maybe 1? But can't remember if that was leftover from last year or not. 

While reading another blog I was introduced to a 3% savings rate account with HM Bradley but you have to jump through quite a few hoops that makes my brain spin thinking about it. Not sure how worth it it is given my situation. I pretty much have low tolerance for anything that requires a direct deposit. 

I wonder if after the pandemic I'll go back to buying groceries in person at Wal-Mart?