January 18, 2009
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I get paid in 8 days
It’s almost kind of sad, but lately my life pretty much revolves around payday. It’s almost the only thing that I think about. I get paid every 2 weeks, and on pay day, I wake up and find money in my bank account. I go through the week in a pretty normal manner, until the following Sunday, when I begin a mental countdown of getting paid. The anticipation builds over the final weekend, until Monday morning, when the cycle starts over again.
Maybe it’s my heavy use of Microsoft Money. It’s a lazy way of balancing my checkbooks and accounting information, while at the same time, I have a complete forecast of what my finances will look live over the next couple of months. Almost all of my bills are on auto-pilot, and their easily scheduled frequency means that there are very few monetary surprises. Only an unexpected expense that revolves around my vehicle, or the occasional trip actually throws off the rhythm, and even that is forgotten after a month or less, if I even care about it at all.
It’s very odd to have nothing to look forward to except the paying of bills, and methods of saving cash. Thoughts of how I can divert money so that it becomes hard for me to spend, and how much I can divert so that I don’t waste anything by buying stuff that I don’t really need. It’s almost sad from the standpoint that it is seemingly materialistic when there are much more important things in life and the world to care about. The thing is, I barely think about those thing. Just the bank accounts.
Maybe it’s not even that I am actually required to do something about the accounts. I really just look at charts and plan. I guess I do think about deeper things, but I really have no control over those things, so I’m more apt to just let them occur. Meanwhile, i have deity-like control over my funds. Oh well.
Black6, out.
