Hey, friend

 How was my day?

Got Mi Casita's again. I got it with shrimp again because it's simpler than asking for shredded chicken and risking getting fajita chicken. Yum!

Yesterday, I must have been really hungry because I ate the whole thing and usually I have leftovers.

I was feeling really good today after putting my document in review. So I went into my suitcase and got the 3 items to return. It's at least $45 back! 

When it would've been easier just to do nothing. Win!

That felt good.

So I treated myself to shrimp fajitas.

To pass a few minutes also stopped at the grocery and picked up some chips, cut fruit, popsicles, and cookies. Yum!

Got home and one of the project managers got a little impatient with me. Ew.  Oh well. Focus on the positive!

Started watching a Netflix movie but it was a boring rom-com so switched to Snowflake Mountain. It's playing in the background while I type this.

I went downstairs to get some chips and cookies as a dessert and show-snack food.

Oh! I ran some other personal errands today.

I activated 2 new cards as MERJ 2.0. That went smoothly once I calmed down. I bought 3 brokered CDs. It was 3 instead of 2 because one of them had a 3 count limit. 

I hesitated for a second because I wanted to churn that cash for a $300 bonus. But decided pscyhologically it was better just to keep FIRE money out of regular circulation. Plan is to hopefully buy more iBonds in Jan 2023. We shall see though. 

I was briefly tempted to buy some FZROX because the price is so low!! Oh well. Part of me is tired of thinking about FIRE.

So I gotta get back to set it and forget it. 

Not sure what that looks like.

I have to get back into doing my Roth in-plan conversions. It's less urgent since nothing is going up in price. 

I feel really good to be a bit ahead on my project.

I got pumped yesterday to try to go for a raise next year, but each day I try to take a step back from my current role to reflect and I realize it's an okay job. I don't really see myself progressing. As in like, I don't actively want to progress. Not that I'm not actually progressing. We shall see though. Sometimes these things happen passively. 

Sometimes I think I know more than I let on and other times I feel completely lost. 

I'm fine with riding this hazy wave.

I can't believe there are only 6 months left.

So yeah, those are the things I would have told a friend.

I have about 3 refunds pending on 3 different cards. I was thinking of how I would spend the credit balances down since all the credit cards are at $0 balance.  Then I remembered I could probably request a check or something. #easy

The other option was to try to spend it as MERJ 2.0 to try to get some credit history on her, but meh.  The only other big money move I need to make this month is to update my after tax 401k (moving it up) and just re-route some direct deposits.

Other than that, I've been trying to distance myself from dealing with money stuff, but there have been pretty regular changes since this year - tried to max out 401k; bought I bonds; tried to stabilize 401k contributions to limit too much excess cash; then tried to decrease 401k contributions to get more cash for vacations. 

I'm tired just thinking about it. Got TV to watch!