In the past year (perhaps even precisely; perhaps even a year to this day) I: - unexpectedly broke up with my S/O (that's our kick-off event) (PS I checked. Exactly a year ago, tomorrow) - moved out of their house (STAT) - moved in with my parents for 5 months (thank you, mom and dad) - found a wonderful little apartment in a great location where i now live with my sister - lost 20 lbs (but gained around 7 back...hey, holidays! And life's a journey, right? Those 7 pounds are just giving me a new goal) - didn't really date - like, kind of dated one or two people, but mostly consciously was trying to take the year off of it, after the Catastrophic Break-up - took a lot of time to myself because I felt the need to recalibrate, ask myself what i really want, and reorient - realign my life to help me reach those goals more effectively - revamped my whole financial management system (i have a bank account for each bill now, essentially - I recommend this btw) - read like a million stephen king books - kicked total ass at work (at least as much ass as i consistently could i guess) - also i got 3 tattoos - found balance and stability in/with my life and my self. ____ It's been a good year. I'm glad the break-up happened. I'm glad I saw it as an opportunity to prove to myself my worth and capability, and I think I did. ___ Who's on the East Coast? Meriadoc arguewithatree blackbootz I think it would be fun if we could arrange another little meet-up, I know there are new hubskiers and I promise that I, like kleinbl00, am much more tolerable in person, so if anyone else is nearish to the DC/Baldymore area, give us a shout
I can vouch for the fact that this person is SO UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLY fun to hang out with... it makes me occasionally check airfare to the area JUST SO I COULD HANG OUT. I'm not even joking. An evening with ref is an evening of fun. full stop.much more tolerable in person
Love this - win that breakup. It's a rare life allowance to reflect - with the partner gone, there's all this free time to think. Four of my friends broke up with long-term partners recently. All except one is taking it as a chance to reorient. The last one is still trying to get him back...that's a bad place to be usually. I'm in Boston. It's a bit far, but I could maybe make a meetup in DC.
Savings, actually. My bank allows you to have as many savings accounts as you want and you can open 'em all online. So I have like 7 savings accounts tied to my current checking, that all have the bill $ auto-deposited. About half are auto-debited as well. I'm about to transition my active checking account - I noticed with all the linked savings it's really easy to shuffle the money and play "funny money" if I'm short - so I'm severing that link and just opened a new fee-free checking at another bank. Once I fund it with DD and get the card, I'm going to cut up/hide my old debit card to make the bill funds more difficult to access.
Credit score absolutely no, IRS probably not, honestly totally happy to finance nerd out with you in PMs/DMs/text. If they were all checkings there would be more potential for credit score impact but honestly that would depend more on the account and tied functionality (like if there was a tied line of credit to the account(s).) there is also a separate system banks use to rate depositors (much like a credit score but for - well, deposits instead) however maintaining multiple accounts shouldn’t impact that negatively.