Michael and I both went back to work this week. He went back on Monday, 2/2 and I went back the following day.
During this time of re-incorporating old routines into new ones, we noticed a few things. Michael said work feels different to him now. This is probably good because he didn't have very good feelings about work before, but now I think he feels more like it's a place where he can be productive and focus. This is good because we have a lot of projects that we're working on that need our attention.
For me, I realized that I lost some weight during these weeks of little sleep and little food. This is difficult for me to accept because I hardly make it over 100lbs normally and we don't have a scale at home, but I'm sure I was floating around in the mid to low 90s because I could noticeably see that my clothes were not fitting the same as they used to. And my belt-- wow. This is not okay and it didn't help that I had fell out of my normal work-out routine as I was trying to incorporate a new work schedule and decided to limit my food budget this month to $300.
Several years ago, I spent a few months using Dave's Ramsey's envelope system from his 'financial peace university' course to help me get a hold of my spending. This entailed pulling out all of my funds for the month in cash and spending from several different envelopes labeled with different categories such as food, gas, supplies, entertainment etc. This is a bit much for me now, so this month I decided to at least do my food budget in cash because that is easily where I can spend way over what I would want to in a month. ---- more later!
During this time of re-incorporating old routines into new ones, we noticed a few things. Michael said work feels different to him now. This is probably good because he didn't have very good feelings about work before, but now I think he feels more like it's a place where he can be productive and focus. This is good because we have a lot of projects that we're working on that need our attention.
For me, I realized that I lost some weight during these weeks of little sleep and little food. This is difficult for me to accept because I hardly make it over 100lbs normally and we don't have a scale at home, but I'm sure I was floating around in the mid to low 90s because I could noticeably see that my clothes were not fitting the same as they used to. And my belt-- wow. This is not okay and it didn't help that I had fell out of my normal work-out routine as I was trying to incorporate a new work schedule and decided to limit my food budget this month to $300.
Several years ago, I spent a few months using Dave's Ramsey's envelope system from his 'financial peace university' course to help me get a hold of my spending. This entailed pulling out all of my funds for the month in cash and spending from several different envelopes labeled with different categories such as food, gas, supplies, entertainment etc. This is a bit much for me now, so this month I decided to at least do my food budget in cash because that is easily where I can spend way over what I would want to in a month. ---- more later!