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Still Catching Up

January 13th, 2012 at 04:50 pm

I haven’t written much (despite my love for setting goals (New Year’s requires new goals!)), because, oie, the last 4 or 5 weeks have been a little chaotic:

There was the second job (finally!).
Followed by the two weeks of sickness hell (I have blocked out the memory).
Followed by the week of exhaustion from recovery and year end work (not sure how I did it).
Followed by the week of chaos with changes at work and a major family holiday (thank goodness I wasn’t sick this week).
Followed by catchup in every aspect of life (still catching up).

Throw in some interesting possible changes (that I can’t go into yet) with a dash of everyone else getting sick and a sprinkle of taking over another person’s job temporarily, and…

*whew*

I have not been able to sit down and figure out my goals very clearly yet. And the interesting possible changes will throw the goals out the window and require a new set.

On a side note: I could use some good mojo the next few days to swing the changes in my favor. I really hope the changes will come through, but if they don’t, what’s meant to be, is meant to be.


I can tell you my vague 2012 goals though…

1) I’d like to increase our family income somehow. My second job has allowed us to purchase a few things we really need, but were pretending we didn’t, but it hasn’t really allowed us to save. They didn’t give me enough hours like they said they would.

2) I’d like to decrease the amount we pay for our health. I pay way too much monthly for a high deductible plan. Our medical right now is between a third and a half of my gross income. I need to find some way to decrease it.

3) I’d like to put some more into our EF. I found that I am more comfortable with $3000 in our EF than I am with only $1500.

4) I’d like to constantly put some money into our health deductible fund. Right now we’re putting in $75/month, which is a start, but not nearly enough.


Of course, I have other goals floating around in my head that I’d like to accomplish, but without any concrete way to tackle them, I think I’ll let them float temporarily.

3 Responses to “Still Catching Up”

  1. patientsaver Says:
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    You should at least be able to deduct medical expenses on your taxes, right, if it exceeds 7.5% of income?

  2. mjrube94 Says:
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    Can you take advantage of flexible spending accounts at work?

  3. scottish girl Says:
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    I was wondering where you'd been. Sending some good mojo your way Smile

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