Jan 19, 2023 - One day at a time

 I think it's okay to have a routine that's just one day at a time, or 1 week at a time. I'm someone who is overwhelmed with the vastness of the future.

This week's routine has involved

- sleeping on the lumpy futon in my home office (I'm convinced the colder back bedroom is aggravating my lingering respiratory symptoms)

- haven't left the house for silly food runs (I need to fill up and I'm trying to see if I can hold out until next week; I've also been eating at home more, well yesterday there were free nuggets, so I had to get them)

- focused work till 1p

- trying to read or click around the internet until 5p

- watching G-rated movies after 9p

But today I feel groggy. I think it's too much sleep. But I don't know how to stay awake past 10. I had gotten good at it, but lately it's hard to stay awake when it gets dark. Even with the light on!

I've rediscovered SPAM, I always forget how yummy it tastes. So I eat that with rice. I was frying fish, but the smoke was aggravating my symptoms because it fills up the whole house and it's too much work to open the windows downstairs since I have rods in them to keep them from being open from the outside. Criminals don't know how much work they add to our days. 

I want to do work today but I'm a bit overwhelmed of how exactly to get started. 

I might just give myself some time off today.

Everyday I choose again not to solve any big problems this year. Nothing. I'm not figuring out where to live or what my life will look like. I just want to stick with the plan I have and figure it out later. The way I see it, I have at least 20 years to just keep trying things until I get it right. That can be comforting sometimes.

I saw a map of chasing good weather for 52 weeks, that looks fun.

In the end, I'm glad I'm home for Q1 of this year because my workload is high. It's nice working from my home office with all my equipment.

My only immediate concerns are whether I want to scramble and go after the Chase bonus. I got the coupon code so I could wait. The real pro for doing it now is I would have some runway to establish a relationship with Chase to apply for the Sapphire card earlier - like when I actually have money to spend.

Honestly, it's just easier to default to my plan. It's not on my plan for this quarter so it's not a high priority.

Oh, friends! Yesterday I sat in on a meeting with all US folks and I forgot how awful it was. The Mikes and Daves were just virtually bro-ing it up and it was vomit-inducing. I had lamented previously about how I'm tired of listening to all the different accents on my team and the timezones. But I take it back. I'll take my international team over Mike and Dave any day!

Oh, perspective.

Well tomorrow I get to eat Macdonald's. Yay! 

It's $76 to break the CD. That's more than I thought. That's at least a week of groceries. I mean it's less than the $900 I can make, but not like the $20 I was thinking.

Ok, I guess I'll just wait and see. Well, the CD is set to mature March 3, so it's only like a month away. So I can decide after Feb 15 if I want to open the Chase accounts. 

I'm just waiting for my 10:30a meeting because I don't want to get started on any focused work and get distracted.