…relief…and other craziness…
My “roomie” moved out this week. I cannot even begin to express the joy and excitement that came with that. I had originally given her a 45-day notice to move out (I was feeling generous) and it took her a bit longer, but she is finally gone and my house — is finally clean.
I never thought I was a neat freak or anything of that nature, but apparently there is a certain way that I like to keep my house — and yeah, it’s almost back in pristine condition. All the common areas are clean, my bedroom looks a little less like my close threw up in it since I get to have my second bedroom back.
And then, well, I received an email from a married male friend of mine. He had, at one point, wanted to date me but since I’m done with the married man thing, I declined and we remained friends. Then he started dating a woman that doesn’t care for me much, and I just let the friendship kind of just sit there, not really forcing any issues.Now all of a sudden, he emails me to tell me that he’s decided that he’s going to go through with his divorce (though no paperwork has technically been filed) and that he’s having a hard time coping because his kids hate him.
I have no idea what to say to him, because being a child of divorce, I understand why his kids would hate him. It’s not like he decided to leave their mom because thery weren’t getting along, he decided to leave after he “found mom’s replacement” and well, that’s just not cool.
On the school front, I’ve gotten more accomplished and I’m “caught up” though that’s probably only going to last until tomorrow. And unfortunately, I have to go back to work.
But I’m happy (inside and out) with the direction my life is taking, I’m happy in my relationship, my home is now my home and not the apartment I’ve shared for way too long with an adult and a child. I couldn’t be more ecstatic.
…what?…I have goals!
I’ve been inspired to set some monthly goals for myself. (Thanks geekgirl!). I’m not sure how it’s all going to work out, but I have ideas. And I’m going to start small and not set too many because well, I really hate failure!
- Get my finances in order. I’ve actually been half-assing this since the beginning of the year. Last year was a relatively good year until the end when for some reason, I just let it all go to hell.
- Go to all of my classes this month. I have a bad habit when I’m doing well in a class, that I just miss a class or two. It shows in my Intermediate Accounting class and now I’m *stressing* majorly!
- Make decent progress on getting my second bedroom set-up as a home office. My “roomie” should be moving out shortly, and I should be able to get it 90% set up before the boyfriend actually comes for an extended visit in March/April.
- Set a deadline to have all my homework done for my internet classes and actually meet it!
- Pay off one of my credit cards. (I have only relatively small credit card debt, but I want to get rid of it!)
So that’s February in a nutshell, and even though I’ve set those goals 4 days into the month, I know I can do it!
*I had initially said that I was going to do nablopomo for February — but realized yesterday that February was already here and I was obviously off to a bad start! Maybe March, eh?*
