Tuesday in Nashville and what I would do with 1 million dollars

 It's Tuesday morning in Nashville, and it is nice and sunny. I watched MAFS last night and they're filming in Nashville. That must've been where I got the idea from! D'oh!

Oh well.

It's so sunny, today might be a frose kind of day. I wonder when my food will be delivered. If it's early enough, I want to do burgers and get some frose. I looked again at the vegan selection at Jeni's ice cream and none of the flavors look all that exciting. I mean, truly, dairy free ice-cream is not that great. 

And I want great things!

I'm nervous because I started a dispute with Orkin. Luckily, I also started a chargeback with my card companies. Hopefully 1 of these paths will resolve the issue. Now I don't look forward to checking my email. Can I just save life-tasks for Tuesday so I only have 1 day of distress.

In other news, I got another Catalyze award. For 5,000 points!! That's a lot of gift cards!

Landing didn't take my booking and I tried to follow-up on them for dates that would work. Crickets. Have I ever told you how much I hate dealing with customer service people. I figured the best way to probably use the 7 day free travel is to tack it on to an existing reservation. But that's not what they promised. I see why people leave nasty reviews for customer service.

But I refuse for this year to keep tumbling down as it's been doing. 

Gosh, it's so sunny, I do just want to go outside and frolick!

I have an appointment with Katie in 30 mins so I'm trying to pass the time. When will I stop being nervous about these meetings! 

Tomorrow is March 1! I can't believe my birthday is less than 2 weeks away! 

And honestly even though Landing didn't accept my booking, I decided to just have a month long staycation. I picked out a couple of eats and I'll just supplement with some shows. And that's that. I don't have the heart to spend any more money and I'm still recovering from the 4 days of clicking just to book this trip. So this will have to suffice as my birthday trip!

I can't believe it's the last year of my 30s! Whoa.

I really, really lived 39 years on earth. Wow! That's an accomplishment. I kind of feel like I deserve retirement at this point. That's a lot of crap to put up with. 

I feel a bit tired because the iPad kept running last night so I woke up when one of the shows got loud and didn't really fall back asleep until the sun came up. 

Maybe I'll go walk to the park later. I feel like I should be outside. Been cooped up too long.

Oh, for a while now I haven't been that excited to play the lottery or even win a million dollars. Who knows how many happiness exercises start with some premise of removing a financial barrier. But I haven't been able to come up with anything. There's nothing I feel like a little more money would do to change my life. And I didn't really want to go through the trouble of coming up with a new life plan and a new outlook. I'm stuck in my narrative until I die. I have all the accoutrements to prove it.

But yesterday, I realized, I would get a nice place. If I had a million dollars. 

I think I would move. I said Seattle, but I'm not 100% confident about Seattle.

But I like living in an apartment. It's a small space, not as much maintenance, and I like this little balcony I have and all these windows. It's the perfect size for me. 

This is still money on a smaller scale. Obviously a billion dollars would change my life, and I could dream bigger. I think a million dollars didn't seem like a lot of money because in FIRE terms, that's only $40k/yr and while that's more than my leanFIRE number, it's not life-changingly more. I currently make more than that in a year. 

But I think some recent challenges that money would solve (not problems) is I would live somewhere nicer and maybe go back to renting. Also, if I still desired to take my long stays... I would be able to afford to stay nicer places and not worry about deal seeking.

So yeah, I think that's what 1-2 million dollars would do to change my lifestyle.

FIRE is freeing, but there are some restrictions.