After two somewhat major bills this late summer (ER visit & car repair) I had been feeling like I was mostly treading water financially. Not super stressed as without a mortgage/rent bill I could afford the expenses. Still, it was really aggravating.
So yesterday I decide to check on my financial balances. I added up everything (IRA, Retirement, Brokerage, DRIPs, Savings, all the rest) and found I passed another benchmark. For today at least the total is up over $800k. At the beginning of the year I was a good chunk under $700k so this is great, much better than I would have expected.
I dunno, I've been working out twice on work days, I have good health (for now anyway), a great GF who sent her last child off to college (YAY), in a month we're taking a two week vacation to FL/Disney, and my finances are looking better than ever. I think this shows I need to step back from time to time and take a look at the big picture, at least "big" as in my life, and see how well I am doing. Now if I can survive 5½ more years at this job I'll be golden. Sigh...
The Big Picture
October 1st, 2017 at 01:34 pm
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Snafu: We (SG-GF & I) have been concentrating on our separate lives this summer, but with her kid off to college we plan on doing more long weekends together and preparing to live together (15+ months and counting). We'll do one this coming weekend, and then a mini celebration of two weeks in FL at the end of the month.
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If I want health insurance its only through the employer, and you pay 100% of the premiums. Better than nothing, but not by much, so will probably skip that. And I am definitely grandfathered in to any pension changes, so the above is what I will be getting if I gut it out to full retirement. Its a very solid benefit.
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