Only got about ~40 minutes of work done, as I’ve been fighting an on & off stress headache most of the day. (Stress? Why would I have stress?)

But, despite it not being a ton of time, what I did manage has made a nice difference.

I still can’t flake out after work this week, but things are well in hand. Finish off the kitchen and do what I can in the living room, and it will be as ready as it can be for the water meter repair folks.

On the money front… If it weren’t for this damn dental bill, I’d likely end the month in the black. ($900+ if I don’t eat, but yeah, I’m going to eat, and that dental bill ain’t magically going away.)

As it stands now, it’s going to take until May at a minimum to make up for this, and again, that’s “not eating” figures. If by some miracle we get bonuses, that will help quite a lot, but I’m not hanging my hat on that right now.

I should at least get my flex spending money back, but it has to go through insurance first, and they’re slow and good at losing claims and/or rejecting them without explanation. (It’s all electronic and they’re still not showing the submission from a week ago, which is frustratingly typical.)

And my car is in the shop for it’s safety inspection and an oil change. PLEASE LET EVERYTHING BE IN WORKING ORDER.

I’ll get through it and back to where I was, it’s just frustrating to make progress and then have it all go to shit.

So yeah, gonna hold off on replacing those shoes as long as I can – they don’t have holes in the bottom yet, LOL.