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What have you been putting off/procrastinating about doing?
Today is the final day to file taxes in the US, and once again I find myself needing to finish up submitting everything instead of having this submitted early (next year will be different!).
I've also been needing to register my youngest son for his US citizenship, as he is born abroad. They recently released a secure way to e-file this, which means my previous "reasons" for putting it off are not relevant (they wanted me to email sensitive information to them, or deliver it in person/via courier)
It made me wonder if there is anything big or small that people wanted to share that they've been putting off? Hopefully talking about it helps you take some action on getting that thing done!
I've been putting off finding a fuckin' job. I got laid off at the end of February, but I deeply hated my job (tech consulting) and I'm really not excited to look for similar work somewhere else. I'm afraid to even look at what openings exist because the market was already bad in my field before this administration hit the self-destruct on the economy machine. My resume isn't very impressive, so my options would have been limited at the best of times.
Meanwhile, my insurance was through my work, and now I'm having to cancel things like dentist and therapy appointments to avoid paying out of pocket for them. My wonderful cat has some mystery disease, the biopsy results should be back by the end of this week but it's possibly an autoimmune disorder or even cancer; I'll do whatever I have to do if it means keeping him healthy, but I'm worried about the cost. I've already had to pull everything out of savings and start leaning on credit cards, so I really do have to get back in the labor trenches soon. But my soul is tired.
I was searching for a job for quite some time, which is a different situation but yet 'my soul is tired' is something that I deeply relate to. It's incredibly demotivating to look for something when you've been forced for no real meaning. And with the way things are in the US... yeah. I can't imagine. Then there are your personal circumstances on top of that. It sounds like a real nasty storm of circumstances that I wouldn't wish upon anyone(well apart from those in the Cheetolino Cabinet but I wish them far worse). Take care.
Thank you. I have a support network in my partner and good friends (two of them my flatmates). I'll be okay, it just may be a while.
I'm sorry to hear this, I hope you are back on your feet soon. I wonder if looking for a job in a different industry would help, something that you can get excited about. It might not be the best paying job right away, but you can always pivot at some point when you are in a better mental state. You just need some income right now. Anything is better than nothing. Sorry if that is harsh, only trying to help!
EVERYTHING. Things have degraded so much. I live in a mess.
I got a new job and it's quite stressful. But the problem is more that I can either do life or I can work. I can't do both. So I'm struggling to exist.
My room is a mess. My toilet is filthy. The sink is full. My taxes aren't done. I've not showered. I'm barely able to do the cat routine but that's because the Cat will nag at me if I don't feed her or clean her litter box.
But plop me in front of the pc and I get straight to work.
My executive dysfunction is that bad. I'm seeing my psychiatrist soon though. So I'm hoping that helps a little.
Edit: I showered. Did my taxes. Brought the cat out for a walk. Put some stuff away. Might clean the toilet floor later.
Congrats on the little successes, you should celebrate them! I hope your work situation can become less stressful soon!
Thank you! I hope to see my psychiatrist and alter my meds and hope that helps a little too.
Can you afford to pay someone to do the heavy cleaning once per month?
I used to do that at my old place. But I currently live with at a friend's place and it feels awkward to do that.
Changing my name. I want to do it for 4 years but despite being pretty much fully convinced that I want to do it I still didn't do it.
I am mostly afraid of the social fallout. The paperwork will be annoying but I am now prepared for it. But I am just not looking forward to people being assholes about it so I keep putting it off. I am even ok if people will just ignore that it happened and will keep using my old name at places like my work. But I know that it will somehow spread at my work as gossip and it will result in people making fun of me, and also probably spreading some extra rumours about me, extrapolating, because who would just change their name for no reason.
I really do just need to force myself to do it though, there's never going to be a perfect time for me to do it and if I don't do it I'll just keep thinking about it and I'll keep being disappointed in myself that I am so scared of doing it just because of what other people might think. But it's hard for me to not give a shit.
Look, Oregano, if people don't like it, they can get over it. You gotta be you.
;-)
Day after posting this, I got probably the closest to actually doing it, I even started getting ready the paperwork for it. But then I just couldn't stop thinking about random transphobic garbage some of my coworkers say and I once again decided to put it off. I wish I just didn't care and was me. I hate that I keep suppressing myself.
I need to get another job... Between jobs would be so much of a better time to do it. Though as I said there probably never will be a perfect time to do it. And I hate the idea that those people will be making fun of me even when I do get another job when they find out.
I'm not gonna be one of those that says "DO ITTTT!!!!" because you are the one that has to put up with the consequences.
I hope you feel able to, though, at some point. I'm not trans (though I've wondered about it from time to time), but even being polyamorous is different enough to have the slimmest slightest understanding of being different and having to deal with that and deciding who to tell and who not.
I can understand not wanting to deal with the shit you expect to have to deal with.
So all I can hope is that all goes as well as it can for you. <3
I totally understand the struggle. At a certain point you have to make it a them problem. I'm not trans but if I overheard some coworkers making fun of someone for being trans I'd look down on them. It makes them lesser, not you.
Idk if this will help, but my company is pretty good about gender and name changes. There's been a few people in our team or teams we work closely with who've done this. Supervisor sends out emails to notify people and we all respect it for the most part. We see the name change on Teams and Outlook.
I have a terrible memory, so I had to be reminded about a pronoun change. But I remember now lol
So it may not be that bad for you. Maybe it will, but you're right that there is never a perfect time. If this is what you really want, then do it!
Oh, I have reservations about the use of procrastination as a useful phenomenon and word in general but specifically for cases like this there is no way that it fits well.
I have been toying with the idea to change my surname in a socially non-accepted way for over 15 years!
I haven't decided yet because I struggle with decision-making and I can't be sure if I just want to do it to be a contrarian and if so if that is a good enough reason to do it!
It feels to me like the weight of getting a tatoo, although I know I can change my name back.
The name I have been thinking of is my mothers first name followed by the word "daughter" as is customary in Iceland, but with the twist that I am a son (as is customary that many daughters have "son" in their name where I live)
If you do go through with it, I hope you'll share your experiences here. I'm highly interested in this.
I'm vaguely aware of Iclandic last names in that regard, although I didn't know about daughters being called '-son'. Is that because of, pardon the antiquated term, the general global patriarchy in most cultures? And is it seen as a traditional vestige of the past, or just normalized and still perfectly acceptable? if that makes sense.
I'm also curious to know what you might expect to face if you were to change your name.
But please feel free to ignore my questions. I'm curious, but don't want to be pushy for answers.
I will say that I've had a possibly vaguely similar experience on reddit. For a couple of years, I had used a screen name that appeared feminine (had "grrl" as part of the name, with the first part reinforcing the femininity) because i'd made a novelty account for a joke 15 years ago, and for various reasons deleted other reddit accounts - and because a newly created account is restricted in so many subreddits, ended up using that account until recently. So I got to experience misogyny, and it was sometimes a very interesting experience. I also have a high voice, so on the phone or in drive thrus am sometimes called "ma'am". For that and other reasons, I've always been thoughtful about gender experiences and expectations. So you've made me curious about your potential situation, :)
Not the person you replied to but:
You're conflating two things here. Icelandic "last names" are actually not surnames, but true patronyms. They are gendered appropriately -- if a man named Jón has a son, his patronym would be Jónsson, but if he has a daughter, her patronym would be Jónsdóttir. If you change gender, you'd change the form of your patronym as well. Nowadays there's even a suffix for nonbinary Icelanders: -bur, meaning "child". Patronyms like these used to be more or less the norm many places, but now Iceland is the exception rather than the rule for this.
Actual surnames are inherited from your parents, usually your father, rather than being formed from a parent's name. Many of these are derived from former patronyms, but in Western Europe they generally don't change due to gender. "Johnson" is a common English surname, but it no longer entails that your father's first name was John and women don't change it to "Johnsdaughter". The same is true for surnames derived from patronyms in other countries that speak Germanic languages. I think this is what the person you replied to was referring to when it comes to names ending in -son. The reasons the masculine form is the one that stuck around as a surname are all pretty much what you'd expect from patriarchal cultures, especially ones where a woman traditionally takes her husband's surname.
Sorry for being unclear. It is my understanding that in Iceland people get -daughter or -son depending on their assigned sex at birth.
(But I have no idea if it is actually true and how it is seen or read culturally)
In other countries, like Sweden where I live, only -son is used.
It has lost it original meaning of "male child to" the prefix which was the fathers name: so someone named Sven would name their children Svens-son (the final "s" in Svens is possessive - showing ownership of)
Nowadays all these are just names, and almost no one think of them as part of the patriarchy (neither local or global!)
Taxes as well, but got an extension so it's an October problem now :P
I've finally stopped procrastinating on cooking at home again and excited for that. Saves the wallet and saves the health.
I hope your October self is slightly more proactive on getting those done!
We cook most meals at home, getting over that hump to start doing it again is great. We definitely eat out more after moving to our current home country, but the culture here is a lot more eating out in general with more affordable options.
Redoing my NAS. I need to copy all the data off, install new disks and ram, and then set it all up again. Once that's done, I want to setup up the *arr suite and jellyfin, but I need to do the first part first.
The setup is all working now so inertia is working against me. That and I want to be sure I know where the configuration for rutorrent is within its docker container and I'm having trouble with that.
I'm going to reply under your post since I also have a semi-abandoned NAS project I've been meaning to get around to forever now.
There are many reasons I've procrastinated on this, and like you it's come down to "Well, it's currently working" — However, it's running off individual 8tb drives with my collection spanning several such drives that are getting to be almost a decade old. I really need to replace this or I'm going to regret it.
I bought the thing, realized I have nothing that takes a VGA input, found a monitor I could borrow, tried to set it up, realized although the SFP+-to-copper adapters were recognized they could never get a DHCP address, gave up on the whole thing. I bought new SFP-RJ45 adapters for 1gbit but I'm back to not having any VGA devices, fueling the procrastination.
I once had lofty goals of installing proxmox with a bunch of cool VMs doing *arr things, a PFSense or OPNSense VM as a router, maybe a little webserver as a treat.
Damn near everything?
Per my therapist, I am evidently suffering autistic burnout. For those not autistic, this means that autistic meltdowns are little more than a hair trigger pull away for me.
My sensory sensitivities are bonkers right now. For example, waiting in a slightly crowded line at the grocery store set my proprioceptive sense immediately on edge. I spent 2 hours in the car, afterward, detoxing. Vyvanse and coffee and just cleaning the kitchen after spending a few minutes of inspiration brainstorming a new project had me in shutdown the entire rest of the day and sleeping awfully that evening.
To be clear, I share the above to educate and not for sympathy. Autism is so mischaracterized by pop culture and the media (RFK Jr needs to STFU) that those of us who can are obligated to respond with education.
Exercising, and starting to have a subscription at my gym. Been a bit wild lately, though that's arguably all the more reason to go there.
Ninja edit: Also, going to the doctor for my foot. It doesn't hurt a lot but I'm not exactly trusting it, as it got bruised heavily some time ago. But it always feels like it shouldn't be anything major...
I believe in you getting back in to exercising again! This year, I got off that non exercising hump through mixing in home body weight work-outs in during the day to be more active. I've had some success and then a few weeks off due to other stuff, now back in it and hoping to be more consistent with it.
Walking. :( I have had legitimate reasons for a few days, but I might could have walked yesterday, but I put a priority on cooking. I should have walked today, but I put a priority on housework, website design, and relaxing.
If I feel I'm able to after dialysis, I will tomorrow, but f not, it will be the next day. I cannot go wthout walking! :(
I managed to get Lutris set up with Steam, Gog, and Epic sources, and Nvidia offloading seems to be at a very usable/stable state, so my entire game library is pretty much fully playable in Linux now, and with Sunshine and Moonlight I can even stream them to the various devices I like to play on (TV and Android handheld). The last thing I need to do before I can completely wipe and reclaim my Windows partition is to see if I can get SteamVR working with my Quest 3 in Linux. That's something I've taken a stab at a couple times in the past with no real success, and it caused a lot of frustration at the time, so I'm not really looking forward to it. I think my options are SteamLink from the Quest, which works great with Steam on Windows but I've read reports that it doesn't work with Linux; or ALVR, but I think I remember that had issues working under Wayland, and I'm not really sure what the current state of it is. So on one hand I'm itching to completely drop any reliance on Windows for anything, and I feel really close now, but on the other hand I'm not looking forward to spending probably a full weekend figuring out how to get VR games working in Linux (and worried that I'll discover it simply still isn't possible with my current setup), so I've been putting that off for a while now and just playing my non-VR backlog. Maybe this weekend will be the one.
I was hesitant to post this at first, but I have been procrasting renewing my passport. Just the thought gives me so much anxiety that I've been avoiding merely thinking about it. It wasn't so important back in May last year, but it is already April this year and I will be needing it it August. Even thinking about the calendar and upcoming months gives me anxiety. I really need to take care of this but the time pressure exacerbates the anxiety which makes pushing through to tackle it even harder. The frustrating thing is rationally I know it isn't that hard but emotionally it is difficult to overcome.
Are you in the US?
If you are American, if you get started and it doesn't come in time, there is an emergency expedited process.
Yes I am. I was not aware of the expedited process, this is helpful, thank you!
Even outside of the expedited process, one for my youngest shipped out long before the estimated time. I was shocked when I received it in the mail three weeks after applying.
Horse riding and learning Norwegian.
I mean I do both, but nowhere near as much as I'd actually like to. In my ideal world I'd be riding a couple of times a week and learning Norwegian every day (maybe have one day break) but the reality is I have a lot of excuses.
I've been needing to learn a few languages (Malay, Mandarin, my wife's family's regional dialect of Chinese) I know how that goes. Excuses are always there and easy to use.
I was waiting for my job situation to settle before I started going back to school, thinking that I was on furlough and I would probably get laid off sometime after we were told not to come into work a few weeks before Christmas. We came back in halfway through February and I was putting it off until I got work situated and got used to my old role, or they changed their mind and fired me. If they did, I could probably have made school the main thing that
I procrastinatedspent my time on, but I understand that it's better to keep this job as is.I hope you don't get too much disruption with your work. I know how stressful that can be when you're in between jobs and looking for another one.
I finally up-potted about two dozen chili peppers today, and rejuvenated the soil in my raised garden bed. There's nothing quite like running your hands through composted manure. I love it!
I also did three loads of laundry, and scrubbed down the bathroom tub. So I'm feeling pretty accomplished so far. It's a nice change.
I can’t tell you how often I sternly say “I love it!” a la Frank Drebin out loud to my wife when discussing any old inane thing I enjoy. It’s lovely to see a kindred spirit out here.
I recently got a new graphics card, and after installing it it told me that it doesn't support running under CSM. This led me to the discovery that I'm running Windows on an MBR partition, not GPT, and am running my UEFI in BIOS emulation mode. I honestly have no idea why that would be the case since I completely formatted the drive when I initially installed Windows 11, and GPT was already the de-facto standard for many, many years at that point.
There's a Windows utility that can automatically convert an MBR partition to GPT, but I'm a bit apprehensive about data loss, so I've been holding off on it for now. I'm planning to backup the most important data once I have some time and then try to run the utility, but so far I haven't had any problems with the graphics card yet, so I've not felt particularly stressed about it just yet. My theory is that they didn't actually test whether the GPU runs fine under CSM or not and the "CSM is not supported" disclaimer is just a legal thing to waive liability in case it does unexpectedly cause any issues.
Update (Apr 18): Since I've been getting some weird graphical artifacts, I decided to stop procrastinating and instead ran the MBR2GPT.exe tool. It really wasn't as scary as expected. The conversion completed successfully and painlessly. Very fast, too. Didn't take more than 10 seconds.
I have started picking up some freelance work, so I have been trying to get a website going to hopefully get more work. I have it about half completed, with the more technical parts done. Now, I mainly just have to write about myself and promote myself. I just find that awkward and hard so I have been procrastinating on it and taking on different side projects instead of just finishing it.
Have you considered using AI to help you? I often get overwhelmed by writing tasks (especially ones where I have to talk about myself), and I've found that ChatGPT is helpful to get the basic outline and structure going.
May I make a suggestion I'm working on finding helpful? AI writing is generally sucky, but...... I have found that if I need to write some things, I'll slop it all free-form in there, have it write something - and then I rewrite it, being inspired by what it wrote. It's easier and is still in my own voice that way. And it really helps.
Setting up my office! We have been moving around a lot in the last few years, and I have unfortunately had to get used to living mostly out of boxes with a minimal setup. We are finally in a place that feels permanent, and now I'm suffering from a certain level of analysis paralysis when it comes to laying things out and organizing. So instead I'm sitting in my partially set up corner, surrounded by boxes typing this instead. 😂
My wife and I are hoping to reorganize our home office this weekend. We tended to not set up a lot of decorations or things in our previous apartments/house as we knew we were moving. We're going to be in our current home at least for the foreseeable future, so we're going to set up more than our desks finally.
My currently dilemma is actually buying a keyboard. I want to get a mechanical keyboard again (and my job has a home office budget that I saved money in for the keyboard), but I also want to make sure I get one that my wife doesn't mind the sound of, since my last keyboard had blue cherry switches and was rather loud. I've also seen that there aren't a ton of keyboards that are full sized offered in my area. I've heard people go ten keyless, which is what I've had to do working off laptops for the last 2 years, but I miss having a numpad regularly and don't know if I'd want to get a separate numpad when I'm so used to a "computer keyboard" always having one for me.
I wish I had a good recommendation for you, but I specifically bought my Redragon keyboard because I like the loud clicky sounds. :D
I'm a big fan of loud clicky keyboards, but sharing an office space makes them not ideal, sadly. I've always wanted to get one of the Unicomp new Model M style buckling spring keyboards!
There's a keyboard café near where I live so I'm planning to go there and let my wife hear a few switches. If she's okay with red cherry switches, I did see that Keychron (specifically the Keychron 10k Max) is available here and my coworker has a Keychron keyboard and recommended it.
I thought I wanted loud keys but ended up driving myself mad with blues, have since switched to browns and I’m much happier — all the physical “ker-chunk” as you press the keys down but they’re much quieter than blues, so if you like the feel of the clicky but want a bit quieter, I can recommend browns.
Also mind you, they’ll still be much louder than the spongey silicone blobs that many laptops seem to go for these days, so I wouldn’t be too worried about them being too quiet
I'm a big fan of the clicky clacky, and wouldn't mind browns as I've heard the same review from others. My biggest concern is for my wife since our desks are next to each other in our home office.
I think at this point I don't care about the sound either way, and just want to enjoy the feeling of typing on a mechanical keyboard after the last ~3 years of typing on laptop keyboards.
I'm struggling to get through my entrepreneur training and figure out some sort of self employment. Since I got layed off, I haven't wanted to do anything. I read, nap, and grudgingly exercise, sometimes cook with the occasional video games, and that's about it. I'm so. burnt. out. I'm in a fortunate place that I've saved/ invested enough to feel safe for a long while, but I've nearly destroyed my mental and physical health doing so and it's been rough dealing with the fallout. For a while I could barely walk due to my body just flaring up. I didn't think stress could manifest physically until my hair started falling out in patches, like I had literal bald spots. The hardest part is the narcolepsy. I'm so fucking tired all the time and I had to put 110% of my energy into work. No energy left for life after work. The weekends weren't enough time to recover. I tried doing things or hanging out with ppl but it's so hard to pay attention or understand what ppl are talking about when my brain and body are so exhausted. Anyway, after 10+ years of my career, getting layed off was a blessing since I've been extremely frugal and invested well. Now I need to figure out how to make money via self employment so I can have an income without giving up every other aspect of my life. I guess I needed to vent. Thanks for reading if you made it this far. To anyone else out there powering through life despite disability, mental or medical condition, I send you my respect. I feel you, it's tough, sometimes it feels like it's not worth it and no one else understands. But you can do it, things will be better, and sometimes worse, but also better.
I'm struggling with self-employment as well.
I'm lucky in that I have one contact with many contacts that I think will save my ass. Otherwise, I'm not sure how I'd survive.
Hang in there. Take it one day at a time. <3
Thank you for the encouragement! You give me hope (and motivation), as I have a contact or 2 that can likely help me as well. Best of luck of your self employment journey :)
All my taxes finished filed/mailed around 12:30a. I have one more I need to file, but I don't think I have strict deadline to file, as I'm asking (demanding) a full refund of all taxes since there were paid erroneously due to HR mistakes.
There are two big things I've putting off: 1) finding a new doctor, an optometrist, and a dentist since I moved 8mo ago, and 2) registering my car in this new state. I'm definitely going to pay like a $250 fine since I waited over 60 days since establishing residency. So now I'm just like "I'll get to it when I get to it." Though I should still do it Soon™.
Same with various doctor visits. It's nearly a year since my last eye doc visit. It's been over year now since my last dentist visit (was supposed to go in Sept for my 6mo check up, but then I moved). And it's been...since before the pandemic since I've seen a doctor? Yikes.
I've been putting off going to an optometrist for way too long. It feels like my vision hasn't changed, and it takes time out of my day to go and get my eyes checked.
I think seeing other people share is helping me set up some reminders to get things like this scheduled and done after putting some of them off for a while. I haven't had a physical in ~4 years and should probably take the time to get one done.
I feel you on the doctors. I somehow similarly built up a block around going to doctors basically since covid too, but I at least finally managed to go to the optometrist a few months ago (and found out that I needed a very different prescription compared to the one I had, so I saw super bad for years) and I also went to a dental hygienist. I was expecting both to kinda curse me out for how long I've been putting things off but in the end both were without problems. You can do it! And once you do do it you will feel much better that it's not weighing on your mind constantly.
For the GP, it's definitely a fear of "oh my god, they're gonna yell at me!" Partly because it's been so long. But also because I don't know where my medical records are. The previous practice I went to, in the state I used to live in, split up. Sometime in 2021, they mailed everyone notice of that and who has patient records, but I lost that letter. So I don't know where my records are (the group that took over that practice's office is completely pediatrics). I guess I should just call the pediatric center because maybe they know.
But at the end of the day, a new doc isn't going to yell at me. And having no records incoming is probably not that unusual. So yeah just need to suck it up and do it!
Here's the smallest stupidest thing: I need to post a gift card to a friend, to celebrate them getting a new house. I have everything ready, but I keep forgetting to swing by a package dropoff place. Luckily they're not moving until the end of April but every day I see that stupid card in my bag and then I still forget about it when I go for my lunch walk 🙄
I honestly know how that goes!
If it's feasible, maybe try putting a sticky note on that card and put where you'll see it before you go for that lunch walk (assuming you can drop it off during your lunch walk).
I feel like that is one of those these that is so easy to let it go until it's right about to happen.
I should be preparing the first version of my book to send to the institution that paid me a grant to write. This is just a bureaucracy, I am not sending the actual book as it will be published. I can do that in a day.
Last week I started writing what was supposed to barely be a story. It is now a proper short story with multiple pages, and I took walks just to think about it, etc. I get obsessed with that stuff.
I have some homework to do for my songwriting course that just started and have been postponing since it’s been a while since I wrote, well, anything, really.
My Japanese characters reviews have also been piling up in WaniKani. It’s harder to keep up with that lately, and seeing 500+ reviews that take almost half a day to kick down is kinda disheartening.
Not exactly procrastinating but incredibly slow progress since I can only work on this on the weekend and only when the weather is reasonable:
Been slowly turning part of my front lawn into a food garden. Mostly raised beds, I’ve got to plant tomatoes in the big plot still but Ive got to buy more fencing to keep all the wildlife out.
Got 5 giant pots set up, filled with dirt, but they can only accept plants that will be okay in whats essentially an oven. Ive got rosemary planted in the most shaded one, basil planted in the second most shaded one. The other three are gonna straight up bake anything edible so I was thinking some sort of hardy flower that the neighbors bees will like, but I don’t know yet.
I have a place for the fig tree but the lil baby needs another year I think before he can make it through the winter.
I have a nice shady spot for the mint but Ive got to do some landscaping first.
It seems like you're planting your herbs in pots, but just in case - please don't plant the mint in the ground if you ever want anything else to grow there. It will grow and spread. Getting rid of it is incredibly difficult.
Yeah haha Ive been warned! Im super careful.
That's an awesome project! I don't have much of a green thumb, I do love managing to not kill the plants we currently have at our house. Its also great being able to pluck fresh basil whenever I want. Would you have any tips on propagating Basil from cuttings? I'd tried a couple of times and had them die each time.
We have a couple of papaya trees growing, I'm hoping one of them is female so we can get papayas!
Ive never tried from cuttings, I don’t think they work like that?
I bought one of those whole plant basil things from the grocery store years ago, planted what was left of it after dinner, and that actually went to seed.
Been replanting the seeds every year since then
I had read you could use cuttings online, but I think I'll just let mine go to seed.
Since I live in the tropics, as long as they're kept in a mostly shaded area, it looks like they're perennial. I've found basil spinach pasta sauce to be a big hit with my boys, so I'm wanting to increase how much I grow to keep up with the demand I receive.
Nice, mine have never been perennial, I tried to keep them alive inside for the winter at first and they just died a slow and painful death from the lack of direct sunlight. I just let the one freeze we get a year kill them now haha
Taxes for me as well, especially because last year I finally decided to change my withholding so I could use the money during the year to invest/keep in emergency fund instead of giving an interest-free loan to the IRS in order to get a refund.
It was a good move, but now it's time to settle up. Maybe one more cup of coffee and then I'll get started...
I hope submitting them went well for you!
Coffee definitely helps with taxes, though I ended up needing to do mine after I got my boys to sleep, so I was coffeeless for this filing. Hopefully everything was submitted correctly!
100% taxes. Every year I say I'm going to do them early, and then every year I end up filing an extension and paying late fees. I'm pretty much an idiot. But I hate it. We even have a good CPA who we just dump all our stuff on and I still can't bring myself to do that in a timely manner.
I'm trying more aggressive calendar reminders for next year. Goal of filing them a week before they're due at the latest.
Maybe that would work by having something poke you to get it done repeatedly.
This is apropos.
I need to get started this morning, but I'm sitting here posting this; though I think I'll force myself to get moving as soon as I'm done with this post.
I need to change a caliper on my van. Not the hardest of jobs, should be pretty straightforward and quick, but I'm nervous, as I'll be bleeding the brakes myself this time with a vacuum tool, coupled to an air compressor. My hesitance is the fact that I've used neither the vacuum tool or the air compressor before and I've only ever attempted to bleed my own brakes once, even though I know it's a simple job.
I know I can figure this out and get it done, but I'm not relishing sitting on the floor and doing hard work for several hours today. I'd rather sit here, post on forums and tinker with my new Linux gaming machine that I'm ironing out all the kinks on.
I also need to make a dentist appointment for my youngest kid, but have been putting that off for some reason.
I wish you luck on your bleeding of your brakes! I haven't done that in years and remember it not being terrible to do. I miss working on cars sometimes, and need to start getting some more tools so that I can do basic things myself now that we're more settled in here after our move.
If I can give you any mental prompting remotely to get the dentist appointment scheduled, I'm trying! I put off scheduling my own for a while, and it ended up taking me 5 minutes to get it done when I finally did it since this was with a new dentist.
Yeah, it ended-up not being too difficult. My initial struggle was just with my rear drums, as the bleeder valves aren't large enough to get a tube and a wrench around, so I just had to let them weep and then stick the tube on, but everything seems to be good now!
Honestly, if I could give-up working on cars, I might. It can be an enjoyable, meditative experience, but also infuriating and can take away from other stuff that I would rather be doing. I just feel that I can't trust anyone else to do the work properly, so I end-up doing it all myself; at least I feel like I'm saving our family money.
I know it won't take long to schedule the appointment, but it feels kind of futile. My youngest is 5 and hasn't lost any teeth yet, so it seems rather pointless to take them to the dentist only for them to tell me things are fine or whatever. I should still do it, as I don't think it'll be exceedingly expensive or anything, but...
Maybe I'll try and get it done this afternoon once I'm home again.
My parent's philosophy was that if my brother and I wanted to have a car, we'd need to do all the work on it ourselves. They bought a cheap beat up car the same model and similar year as the one they drove since my dad was familiar with working on it.
When my wife and I moved and I was no longer a ~medium length drive from my parents house to go and fix things it felt incredibly weird taking our car in to get worked on as I felt the same way as you about not trusting others to work on it properly and saving the money doing it myself.
I'm thinking the next car we get will be the one in this country that I do more work on. I don't like the car we have and hope to sell it in the next couple of years/when we decide to have another kid.
For your kids dental appointment, I view it more as preventative and reinforcing your kid the importance of going and having those checks as a healthy habit. At least that's what we've been positioning it to our kid as we talk about it but still haven't scheduled his first dentist's appointment. Maybe I should also do that this afternoon after work.
Putting together a demo reel for a job application. They seemed to be very interested in me, but my previous job didn't let me use the videos I edited for them because of an NDA, so I have to do it from scratch, which is easy but I can't seem to be able to start
I've taken a bunch of photos over the last three months, counting spanning at least 5 or 6 different outings. I've been dragging my feet on processing and uploading the photos, each time looking at the space on the SD card growing perilously smaller and smaller.
Processing and touching up is a long and sometimes frustrating process, especially as I'm still learning the ropes. I love taking photos and oftentimes love the end result, it's the in-between stuff that can be painful. It also requires time and concentration (things I don't always have at my disposal).
This Sunday I finally decided to get off my ass and do it, and have worked through the backlog over the last few days. As of 10 minutes ago I finally finished and uploaded the last batch!! I can now empty the SD card, take more shots, and face the next inevitable bout of procrastination :')
I've been putting off buying some much needed furniture for my apartment. Most needed right now is a dresser or closet organizer as I currently don't have a real place to store my clothes. I've just been using my suitcases haha. Main reason I put it off is because I just wanted to first pay off the bills I racked up for moving to my apartment and furnishing it. I've also just been slammed at work so I don't have much energy afterwards to buy things.
I know that struggle, getting furniture is a bigger decision than some people think since you live with it for a long time after you get it, so you want to make sure you get something you like.
I hope you can find some time and energy to get those purchased! I feel like it's not a huge thing, but definitely a quality of life increase having proper clothes storage.
Thanks! Definitely agree that some clothes storage would increase my quality of life. Finally found some time to relax and order something. Looking forward to it arriving!
Buying tickets for a flight. The flight is in USD and im hoping the exchange rate improves since it is terrible for me at the moment.
I felt your comment, I watched flight prices for over a month to wait for either the local currency to go up or the flight to come down in price. I wish you luck, and hopefully you're not in a rush to get the tickets and can wait it out a bit to see if you get a better deal
I need to get our ducts cleaned. No one I know had any recommendations, so trying to figure it out from scratch...
At the moment? Packing up my gaming gear as part of our move. Gotta unplug my PS4, go through a box of cables to figure out what goes to my GameCube, figure out how to securely pack my old DS's which are all damaged in some way (and maybe locate yet another missing charger??), figure out where my Wii U stuff is so we can sell it at the garage sale...
And then I need to go through my closet. Which will be a nightmare given it's had 20 years to amass junk. Already purged the clothes, gotta go through the books and the laundry basket which has amassed numerous odds and ends over the years. And then I gotta go through the two junk drawers in my dresser.....
Yeah, busy couple of weeks for me. Moving really is bittersweet.
It really is amazing how much stuff you can accumulate if you're not mindful. I think depending on how far you move and how much you're trying to condense your positions plays a big role as well.
I hope the move goes well, and you're able to get settled in to your new place with not too much of a hassle!