![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21I am 40 today. This amazes me- there's a reason why the line in Hamilton's "My Shot" that goes "I never thought I'd live past twenty" resonates so strongly with me. There were several times where I wasn't sure I'd see twenty. Or thirty. Never mind forty! Honestly, I feel proud of surviving this long.
I'm doing pretty well. Work is, well, work, but I'm doing pretty good at not allowing it to take over my life like my last job. My apartment is mostly clean- the bedroom is a disaster, but the main living space is in good shape. Looks lived in, but I could probably make it company ready in about 20 minutes. Hoping to sort out the bedroom in February. I've been doing little things- went to a collage workshop last weekend with a friend from church, hosted church folks for dinner, just poking my head out of the shell a tiny bit. I still dive back in pretty quickly, but it's the trying that counts. I'm working on some other things- been baking bread, working on Spanish, and I have a stack of Udemy classes to get through. And it turns out I love making collages, so I jumped on a magazine subscription special to get some nature and travel magazines to feed that new interest. Working on paying off debt- the car is paid off and I'm working with a non-profit credit agency to settle the credit card debt. It'll take about 18 months, but then it'll be done. I'd like to be making a bit more money than I currently am, but I am mostly enjoying my job and the five minute commute adds sooooo much to my overall well being that I want to stick it as long as possible. Without the debt, I'd be pretty comfortable, so getting rid of that will help immensely.
So, yes, 40. Let's see what this decade brings.
I'm doing pretty well. Work is, well, work, but I'm doing pretty good at not allowing it to take over my life like my last job. My apartment is mostly clean- the bedroom is a disaster, but the main living space is in good shape. Looks lived in, but I could probably make it company ready in about 20 minutes. Hoping to sort out the bedroom in February. I've been doing little things- went to a collage workshop last weekend with a friend from church, hosted church folks for dinner, just poking my head out of the shell a tiny bit. I still dive back in pretty quickly, but it's the trying that counts. I'm working on some other things- been baking bread, working on Spanish, and I have a stack of Udemy classes to get through. And it turns out I love making collages, so I jumped on a magazine subscription special to get some nature and travel magazines to feed that new interest. Working on paying off debt- the car is paid off and I'm working with a non-profit credit agency to settle the credit card debt. It'll take about 18 months, but then it'll be done. I'd like to be making a bit more money than I currently am, but I am mostly enjoying my job and the five minute commute adds sooooo much to my overall well being that I want to stick it as long as possible. Without the debt, I'd be pretty comfortable, so getting rid of that will help immensely.
So, yes, 40. Let's see what this decade brings.