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Jun. 13th, 2017 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
m_of_disguiseAlright, I'm going to try and shake off my current slump by focusing on the things I want to do next year, since this year is basically shot. (I know it's barely halfway through, but nothing can change until we move out this year, which will take us saving money until the end of the year to accomplish.)
Goals for this year:
-Get everything packed up and into storage no later than the beginning of October. The housing market usually opens up in fall and winter, and sales slow down, which means we might actually be able to get a house before someone snipes it, which is what keeps happening to us now.
-Pay off three credit cards. Crush debt is exhausting.
-New Car. We took it in yesterday for a horrendous shake it had developed, and they search the entire car to see what was causing it. Turns out the wiring is completely shot, the shocks are gone, the transmission is going out, and the wheels are coming apart. A new car needs to happen pretty soon, and we're saving for it, but it will be another couple of months before we have anything sizable. Shooting for August.
Goals for next year:
-House. I think that once we have our own space and I don't feel like I'm being slowly erased from existence, I'll be in a much better place mentally as well as physically. Right now I feel like every day I get pushed farther to the periphery, and having my own space that I own and can organize, design, and decorate the way that I like will make me a much happier person.
-Get back to sewing stuff. I've been pushed out of my sewing space and reduced to living in basically half a room, which means there is no space for sewing. I want to make pretty things again and have the space to actually work on stuff again. I'll definitely be looking for a house that has a spare room that can become a sewing room.
-Get back to being creative. I trudge through one day after another doing the same thing and feeling very stifled. I want to call up my old painting teacher and get back into painting, and maybe get back into writing, too.
-Start attending events again. I've bowed out of a lot of stuff already this year because I don't have the money or space to make a new outfit for it. I miss going to things. I miss seeing people. I miss travel. Small list of travel goals, in no particular order:
-Francaise Dinner - especially since it's supposed to be in Williamsburg next year! I neeeeeeeed to go.
-Versailles/Paris/Germany - this one is all planned out, I just need to stick to a savings plan to make it happen. I'm so excited about this trip, I've wanted to see Paris for so long! I wish there was time to make a trip to Grasse to see the Chanel flower fields (it's always been a fantasy of mine to work in the flower fields as a flower picker during harvest season, but apparently getting work in France as a foreigner is damned near impossible. Maybe I could get paid under the table...) but it's a 6 hour train ride in the opposite direction of where we need to go, so that will have to wait for another time.
-Fan Days - I miss sci-fi cons and geeking out with my fellow Trek nerds.
-Costume College - duh.
-TrekCon Vegas - It's been quite a few years since the last time I went, and I think it's time to try and go back. Hopefully it won't end up on the same weekend as CoCo, which it sometimes does, but if it does, CoCo wins.
I feel better about the future thinking about this year as laying the groundwork for an awesome next year. It doesn't feel as much like a crushing void of not being able to do anything because of debt and savings, and more like I'm setting the stage to have a really awesome comeback.
Today is a good day.
Goals for this year:
-Get everything packed up and into storage no later than the beginning of October. The housing market usually opens up in fall and winter, and sales slow down, which means we might actually be able to get a house before someone snipes it, which is what keeps happening to us now.
-Pay off three credit cards. Crush debt is exhausting.
-New Car. We took it in yesterday for a horrendous shake it had developed, and they search the entire car to see what was causing it. Turns out the wiring is completely shot, the shocks are gone, the transmission is going out, and the wheels are coming apart. A new car needs to happen pretty soon, and we're saving for it, but it will be another couple of months before we have anything sizable. Shooting for August.
Goals for next year:
-House. I think that once we have our own space and I don't feel like I'm being slowly erased from existence, I'll be in a much better place mentally as well as physically. Right now I feel like every day I get pushed farther to the periphery, and having my own space that I own and can organize, design, and decorate the way that I like will make me a much happier person.
-Get back to sewing stuff. I've been pushed out of my sewing space and reduced to living in basically half a room, which means there is no space for sewing. I want to make pretty things again and have the space to actually work on stuff again. I'll definitely be looking for a house that has a spare room that can become a sewing room.
-Get back to being creative. I trudge through one day after another doing the same thing and feeling very stifled. I want to call up my old painting teacher and get back into painting, and maybe get back into writing, too.
-Start attending events again. I've bowed out of a lot of stuff already this year because I don't have the money or space to make a new outfit for it. I miss going to things. I miss seeing people. I miss travel. Small list of travel goals, in no particular order:
-Francaise Dinner - especially since it's supposed to be in Williamsburg next year! I neeeeeeeed to go.
-Versailles/Paris/Germany - this one is all planned out, I just need to stick to a savings plan to make it happen. I'm so excited about this trip, I've wanted to see Paris for so long! I wish there was time to make a trip to Grasse to see the Chanel flower fields (it's always been a fantasy of mine to work in the flower fields as a flower picker during harvest season, but apparently getting work in France as a foreigner is damned near impossible. Maybe I could get paid under the table...) but it's a 6 hour train ride in the opposite direction of where we need to go, so that will have to wait for another time.
-Fan Days - I miss sci-fi cons and geeking out with my fellow Trek nerds.
-Costume College - duh.
-TrekCon Vegas - It's been quite a few years since the last time I went, and I think it's time to try and go back. Hopefully it won't end up on the same weekend as CoCo, which it sometimes does, but if it does, CoCo wins.
I feel better about the future thinking about this year as laying the groundwork for an awesome next year. It doesn't feel as much like a crushing void of not being able to do anything because of debt and savings, and more like I'm setting the stage to have a really awesome comeback.
Today is a good day.
