Busy, busy...
Sep. 30th, 2005 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisWe're off to the trailer in about two hours. I'm already packed but Kent hasn't started yet. Still, there's a tonne o' things yet to do before we go. Instead of writing this LJ entry, I should be heading to the local Jiffy Lube for an oil change for my Civic (we're taking the Caravan to the trailer but I want it ready for work on Monday), stop by the bank and pick up ice for the food coolers, among other minor tasks. And the cleaning crew should be doing their magic on our house while I'm out on errands.
Today, however, is the beginning of the happy period of my calendar year. It's fall! Cool days and cooler nights! Leaves changing colour! Reduced humidity! And topmost on my mind: today's payday has maxed out my 401(k) contributions so future paychecks for the remaining three months of the year will be somewhat larger. Yes, it's a only a mental and accounting contrivance but it gives me the flexibility for six paydays and 90 days to salt away extra savings into various other accounts without making any impact in our day-to-day standard of living. Barring extraordinary financial demands of my family --still a possibility-- we should be using some extra cash to remake the main bathroom this winter.
And Kent reminds me I still need to our donations to various charities to see that everyone gets something in this fiscal year and that my office has the documentation for their matching donation plan. I'll worry about that when we get back next week.
Off on errands now...
Today, however, is the beginning of the happy period of my calendar year. It's fall! Cool days and cooler nights! Leaves changing colour! Reduced humidity! And topmost on my mind: today's payday has maxed out my 401(k) contributions so future paychecks for the remaining three months of the year will be somewhat larger. Yes, it's a only a mental and accounting contrivance but it gives me the flexibility for six paydays and 90 days to salt away extra savings into various other accounts without making any impact in our day-to-day standard of living. Barring extraordinary financial demands of my family --still a possibility-- we should be using some extra cash to remake the main bathroom this winter.
And Kent reminds me I still need to our donations to various charities to see that everyone gets something in this fiscal year and that my office has the documentation for their matching donation plan. I'll worry about that when we get back next week.
Off on errands now...
