I think my head might pop off
I’m very busy. Very very very very very busy busy busy. Kinda busier than I have been in weeks. It’s good busy (lots of paid work) but my head seriously might just get so wrought up with busy that it might fly right off my neck. Yes, I’m being literal. My head may literally pop off of my neck due to sheer busyness. I am that busy.
Last night Brett and I were discussing this busyness. (Well, I was thrumming with exhausted energy and he was trying to soothe me with his calm, calm voice.) And we are both happy about it because we hope that Brett’s foray back into the work world is temporary unless he loves it (or at least loves getting our benefits for cheap again — new glasses here I come!) and if it’s working schedule-wise, then he’ll stay. But we still feel like our default choice is two at-home/working parents when we can swing it.
Brett got this new budgeting software that puts everything in buckets. It’s like the envelope budget system (a system that both sets of grandparents swear by plus Abby’s husband and everyone knows he’s a genius) only with buckets so that we can say, “You’re still doing envelopes? Totally old school. Everyone knows that BUCKETS are where it’s at!” Because we like to be the coolest middle-aged people at our potlucks. Anyway, he got this new budgeting software and when we’re not watching hulu.com, we’re staring at our virtual buckets and gleefully rubbing our hands together as we anticipate the invoices I will send.
It takes so little to make us happy.
Oh and our air conditioner went out (although with fabulous timing however seeing as how it’s pretty cool right now and will be for awhile yet) so we’re even more motivated to fill that “house maintenance” bucket up to a certain amount.
So forgive me the lousy blogging today. I’m really too busy to give you a suitable and scintillating blog and this will have to do.
Oh and the money bucket software? Moneywell. Mac only.
Busy creatives motivate me. Rock on!
Wow… this moneywell software looks great… booting up the mac right now to add it. Thanks for the recommendation and congrats on being busy!
Why is it that every time you talk about great new software you have I get all excited (budgetting in buckets is just exactly what we need!) and then you go and mention it’s only for macs, right at the end?
Glad you’re busy, btw.
Hope your head doesn’t pop off though, that sounds messy.
Though Kaely has a book in which a little girl’s head falls off and she sticks it back on with her aunt’s vegetable glue. It’s a strange book, but Mikaela loves it.
And there’s no obvious mess there.
No, it’s her grandma’s vegetable glue, what am I saying?