Good news abounds today! I started the morning off with a visit to the former Dr. Negativo, who was really nice and human to me this time. Maybe she just needs a little time to get to know the patient or something, but she was more positive than she has been and even told me a story about her daughter. Plus, my scale and her scale are now only one pound apart. I have decided my clothes probably weigh one pound, which would account for the difference. She congratulated me on my weight loss – now at 23.6 pounds – said my blood sugars have been looking great, and cleared me to get pregnant. I still think I’d like to lose a bit more weight, but it is nice to know it won’t be a health disaster if I (ha!) should happen to get pregnant (double ha!). And just knowing that we could start trying again if we wanted to makes me feel better. Now the timing of the trying is up to me, not someone else. I do want to make sure I can have as healthy a pregnancy as possible though, so I think even though it is tempting, oh so very tempting…not quite yet.
Then this afternoon I quite unexpectedly came into $1,000! Nothing perks up even a good day like finding out extra money is coming your way out of the blue. Of course, I immediately thought about the Sidekick I long for so very much. Nothing has changed since last week. I don’t need one, not even a little bit. I am at a loss to explain why I want one. I think it may have something to do with my sci-fi/fantasy geek side, which loves gadgets, particularly ones that look like they could be used for some sort of futuristic purpose. There is still a part of me that is the little girl who pretended that her parents’ enormous standalone stereo was a spaceship control panel. Of course, John pointed out that what we need way more than an expensive cell phone that we don’t actually need is a china cabinet, and he’s right. We’ve got three boxes of my great-grandmother’s china and Depression glass sitting in our dining room/office because we don’t have any free cabinet space.
But a china cabinet is so not-frivolous, and will cost more than the Sidekick. Also not-frivolous: putting the money in our savings, making an extra payment toward the principal on our mortgage, or putting it toward a Roth IRA. And then there’s the vacation we want to take in October, but I’ve already got money earmarked for that. I’m trying to shut the voice of temptation up and talk myself into the more sensible course of shelling out $50 for one of those Razr phones and then tucking the rest of the money away. Or sticking with my current functional if not fabulous phone a while longer to see if prices start coming down…
…but that devil on my shoulder keeps whispering in my ear…the doctor said you’re ok to try to conceive…you really want that Sidekick…sensible shmenshible…
We’ll see where I end up.
If you just find good money, I almost think you're obligated to spend some of it frivilously. That said, I would love a Sidekick but I am rather fond of my Razr.
I'm not familiar with the sidekick but if my husband finds out about it, we are screwed. The razor..I want one too, and $50 I could do....a vacation, I want way more than anything...a cool vacation...with all the perks. A china cabinet...ugh, not so much.
I vote to do something FUN FUN FUN with it--- you deserve to and it came out of nowhere so why not???!
Maybe a good compromise would be the $50 Razr because it's still a cool new gadget, but you still have $950 to do something, well, responsible with. Good luck. I'd be going through the same thing.