When Tuesday acts like Monday

[ironbaby]

At least it's a 4-day work week. What's happening in GKU land?

[ironbaby]

We bought a couch yesterday to take advantage of Labor Day specials. Now I have intense buyer's remorse. I know I want the couch and it will be perfect, but staring at our bank account is giving me heart palpitations.

[PirateCat]

Sept 6, 2016 8:02:05 GMT -5 ironbaby said:

We bought a couch yesterday to take advantage of Labor Day specials. Now I have intense buyer's remorse. I know I want the couch and it will be perfect, but staring at our bank account is giving me heart palpitations.

Spending money is hard. But your enjoyment of life is worth a lot. I can usually justify spending money on big items like that that we really want/need because I know we could always save some money by not eating out as much (we don't always follow through, but it works in theory). We also need to replace our couch soonish but we are waiting for a bit of a lull in spending. 

ETA: Yay, new couch! 

[teraiin]

Sept 6, 2016 8:02:05 GMT -5 ironbaby said:

We bought a couch yesterday to take advantage of Labor Day specials. Now I have intense buyer's remorse. I know I want the couch and it will be perfect, but staring at our bank account is giving me heart palpitations.

I know those feels. That's how I felt when we paid to have a fence put up. I knew it would be great for the dogs and if friends brought kids over. But seeing my account drop made me want to cry.

[PirateCat]

I had such a hard time getting out of bed this morning. Traded a back rub for a ride to work.

[4leafclover]

Good morning! I'm actually happy to be at work today. My boss is out, which means no patients and a nice quiet day for me to get caught up. Also, love starting the work week on a Tuesday! I wonder if I was off every Monday, would I start to loathe Tuesdays as much as I currently loathe Mondays?

[icedtea]

Sept 6, 2016 8:02:05 GMT -5 ironbaby said:

We bought a couch yesterday to take advantage of Labor Day specials. Now I have intense buyer's remorse. I know I want the couch and it will be perfect, but staring at our bank account is giving me heart palpitations.

Ah! You figured out how to arrange it?

[icedtea]

Sept 6, 2016 8:11:44 GMT -5 PirateCat said:

I had such a hard time getting out of bed this morning. Traded a back rub for a ride to work.

Good trade.

[icedtea]

It's still the weekend for me, as I'm out till Thursday. Having some breakfast and tea now, trying to figure out if I want to go running.

[daisy818]

We ended up buying DH a new laptop last night. His old one was on its last legs, and while he insisted it could work a while longer, it was just not reliable. With him back in school, he needs a reliable computer. But we also got a student discount on top of the Labor Day sale since he's in school (yay!) and 12 months no interest financing. So it could have been worse.

[PirateCat]

I'm so happy there is soccer to watch tonight.

And since H built the shelves and mounted the TV it's been so much nicer watching stuff in the living room. I need to get serious about putting a wood stove in our fireplace and I think our living room will be so lovely this winter.

[ironbaby]

Sept 6, 2016 8:34:06 GMT -5 icedtea said:

Sept 6, 2016 8:02:05 GMT -5 ironbaby said:

We bought a couch yesterday to take advantage of Labor Day specials. Now I have intense buyer's remorse. I know I want the couch and it will be perfect, but staring at our bank account is giving me heart palpitations.

Ah! You figured out how to arrange it?

Yeah, we marked the whole thing out with painter's tape before we went back to actually buy it.

It's going to be awesome...in 8-10 weeks.

[daisy818]

Talking about marking out a space for a couch, DH's best friend still makes fun of me because when I move, I use graph paper to make scale diagrams of the rooms and furniture. I cut out little scale pieces for my furniture, and then I can move it around to figure out how to arrange it. I think it's efficient. He thinks I'm a dork.

(DH makes scale models on his computer, so he's really no less nerdy than me).

ETA pic:

[badwolf]

Large purchases give me lots of anxiety too. DH and I got back from my work conference and visiting family over the weekend and immediately jumped on working on cleaning up and repairing my house so we can get it on the market. I really wish my time off request for today and tomorrow had been granted because I'm still exhausted and trying to get prepped for a training course this coming weekend. Talk about no rest for the wicked.

[doodler]

Sept 6, 2016 8:02:05 GMT -5 ironbaby said:

We bought a couch yesterday to take advantage of Labor Day specials. Now I have intense buyer's remorse. I know I want the couch and it will be perfect, but staring at our bank account is giving me heart palpitations.

I feel this way about my new car.  We had a plan to do it in about a year(after our other car payment ended) but DH got a bug up his butt and insisted we do it this summer.  I love it but I'm not loving two car payments.

[irish14]

Sept 6, 2016 8:50:03 GMT -5 daisy818 said:

Talking about marking out a space for a couch, DH's best friend still makes fun of me because when I move, I use graph paper to make scale diagrams of the rooms and furniture. I cut out little scale pieces for my furniture, and then I can move it around to figure out how to arrange it. I think it's efficient. He thinks I'm a dork.

(DH makes scale models on his computer, so he's really no less nerdy than me).

ETA pic:

I do this too!!!!

[doodler]

daisy818 that is something my husband would do. I would be the one complaining because I can't figure out how to get everything to fit and he would make that and hand it to me. Lol!

[BabyStandish]

Sept 6, 2016 8:36:35 GMT -5 icedtea said:

It's still the weekend for me, as I'm out till Thursday. Having some breakfast and tea now, trying to figure out if I want to go running.

You know you want to run

[BabyStandish]

We analyzed our expenses from last month and things got crazy. So this month will be a lot of boring dinners and less alcohol.

[icedtea]

lol daisy818, that is adorable.

[icedtea]

Sept 6, 2016 9:01:23 GMT -5 BabyStandish said:

Sept 6, 2016 8:36:35 GMT -5 icedtea said:

It's still the weekend for me, as I'm out till Thursday. Having some breakfast and tea now, trying to figure out if I want to go running.

You know you want to run

Haha, do I, though? I probably will later, I know I need to get back in the habit. 

[BabyStandish]

Sept 6, 2016 9:07:13 GMT -5 icedtea said:

Sept 6, 2016 9:01:23 GMT -5 BabyStandish said:

You know you want to run

Haha, do I, though? I probably will later, I know I need to get back in the habit. 

Lol I always feel better after runs, but getting out there can definitely be hard.

[doodler]

I ran yesterday for the first time in about a month. It felt great. I'm hoping I can get back in the habit now that it isn't 100 degrees every evening when I get home from work.

[Deleted]

Sept 6, 2016 8:02:05 GMT -5 ironbaby said:

We bought a couch yesterday to take advantage of Labor Day specials. Now I have intense buyer's remorse. I know I want the couch and it will be perfect, but staring at our bank account is giving me heart palpitations.

I totally understand that feeling. When target had their 10% off a few weekends ago we bought a new TV and are having to make sacrifices in other areas to keep our spectacular viewing experience. I want it though and won't get rid of it.

[icedtea]

Sept 6, 2016 9:09:21 GMT -5 BabyStandish said:

Sept 6, 2016 9:07:13 GMT -5 icedtea said:

Haha, do I, though? I probably will later, I know I need to get back in the habit. 

Lol I always feel better after runs, but getting out there can definitely be hard.

Peer pressure wins—I'm bringing a gym bag with me to therapy and will go running. I do feel better afterward. 

[Deleted]

I slept wonderfully last night after two days of roughing it. I'm still a bit sickly though but at least am well rested. I don't mind being back at work today since I enjoy my job.

[wannabmama]

Good morning, GKU!
I had the hardest time getting up this morning. I really have no excuse to be this tired. This week I need to work on learning everything I can about how to market my business since I no longer have the project income coming in (boo) and next week I am out all week at a training. So I am trying to learn all this computer speak to understand how google and other search engines find my website and rank it higher on the search results...it's hurting my head, but it's kind of fun, too. Now to just actually make money. Little things.

[irish14]

Sept 6, 2016 9:46:31 GMT -5 wannabmama said:

Good morning, GKU!
I had the hardest time getting up this morning. I really have no excuse to be this tired. This week I need to work on learning everything I can about how to market my business since I no longer have the project income coming in (boo) and next week I am out all week at a training. So I am trying to learn all this computer speak to understand how google and other search engines find my website and rank it higher on the search results...it's hurting my head, but it's kind of fun, too. Now to just actually make money. Little things.

ooooh, search engine optimization!! Fun!

Name your city and area in your bio at least once, that's supposed to help. Also most attorney website traffic comes through the bio page.

We just redesigned and I was on the committee. I only know just enough to be dangerous...

[wannabmama]

Sept 6, 2016 9:58:43 GMT -5 irish14 said:

Sept 6, 2016 9:46:31 GMT -5 wannabmama said:

Good morning, GKU!
I had the hardest time getting up this morning. I really have no excuse to be this tired. This week I need to work on learning everything I can about how to market my business since I no longer have the project income coming in (boo) and next week I am out all week at a training. So I am trying to learn all this computer speak to understand how google and other search engines find my website and rank it higher on the search results...it's hurting my head, but it's kind of fun, too. Now to just actually make money. Little things.

ooooh, search engine optimization!! Fun!

Name your city and area in your bio at least once, that's supposed to help. Also most attorney website traffic comes through the bio page.

We just redesigned and I was on the committee. I only know just enough to be dangerous...

Yeah, I have been playing around trying to add more content and links, that is supposed to help, too.  Right now if you search my name and my town you see my facebook page but not my website, so I know something isn't quite working right.  I know there are services that will help but I need to save money, so I am trying to become an SEO ninja, ha.  It is also annoying that it takes awhile to see the results, so you don't know what is working/what is not in real time.

[rablissful]

I am getting re-directs like woah and it's pissing me off.