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I have been lax, lax, lax about budgeting lately but have vowed to do better once I get my first normal Colubrid check (only then will I know how much I actually bring home). As a warmup, I've now figured out what my fixed expenses really are... useful since that tells me how much of my income I'm trapped into having to continue making. I used as a partial guide this article listing what it costs to live a life as a family of four in a small town. Now I have a rock-bottom spending level primarily featuring the mortgage/groceries/utilities (and web hosting), and a much-preferred level in which I have insurance and keep going to yoga. If I ever lose my job I can drop to that second level without too much pain. So next time the worry hits (what if the industry tanks? What if ALL the jobs go to India?) I can do those calming calculations I used to do about how many months I could live on savings if I had to.
All this is kind of funny because I've been beseiged with headhunter calls and emails lately anyway. Nice, funny friendly headhunters... I like them. I've started a 'headhunter' flag in gmail so that I can find them again when I need them.
We had dinner yesterday evening with B and D, who have moved their wedding up to this Thanksgiving because they decided they had no real reason to wait until next year. We don't see them very often anymore, but there are so many things I appreciate about B... the way she lives so unapologetically and well on a budget (her wedding dress is sooooo beautiful, by the way) and how unassuming she is despite being completely brilliant. Sigh. :) She's going to make some high school seniors really really happy about their physics classes this year.
And I counter my gushiness by noting just how much easier it is to get along with her now that she's past her more aggressive dating days. ;)
Annnnyway. All is well. Next week is prod week for my bug, but he says he'll come and have lunch with me on Tuesday or Wednesday so that I get to see him. And there are too many things I want to do, including a new screensaver idea that I'm dying to get started on right this second. I guess when you lie in bed at night thinking through the algorithms it probably means you really should just do it.
Today's big scare came when the Office Meanie from my last job wrote me in regards to the job posting he saw about my group at Colubrid. *screams* I wrote back making it sound like the acquisition totally sucks and that I'm not really sure what it would be like for a new hire at this point... yet trying not to be too obviously no way, I never want to work with you again. But still, yikes. If he applies, I hope that TBC's and my combined testimony about this person will be enough to keep him off the team.
All this is kind of funny because I've been beseiged with headhunter calls and emails lately anyway. Nice, funny friendly headhunters... I like them. I've started a 'headhunter' flag in gmail so that I can find them again when I need them.
We had dinner yesterday evening with B and D, who have moved their wedding up to this Thanksgiving because they decided they had no real reason to wait until next year. We don't see them very often anymore, but there are so many things I appreciate about B... the way she lives so unapologetically and well on a budget (her wedding dress is sooooo beautiful, by the way) and how unassuming she is despite being completely brilliant. Sigh. :) She's going to make some high school seniors really really happy about their physics classes this year.
And I counter my gushiness by noting just how much easier it is to get along with her now that she's past her more aggressive dating days. ;)
Annnnyway. All is well. Next week is prod week for my bug, but he says he'll come and have lunch with me on Tuesday or Wednesday so that I get to see him. And there are too many things I want to do, including a new screensaver idea that I'm dying to get started on right this second. I guess when you lie in bed at night thinking through the algorithms it probably means you really should just do it.
Today's big scare came when the Office Meanie from my last job wrote me in regards to the job posting he saw about my group at Colubrid. *screams* I wrote back making it sound like the acquisition totally sucks and that I'm not really sure what it would be like for a new hire at this point... yet trying not to be too obviously no way, I never want to work with you again. But still, yikes. If he applies, I hope that TBC's and my combined testimony about this person will be enough to keep him off the team.
