Better Than I Thought
Nov. 17th, 2005 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakI am doing better financially than I thought I would be after returning from my trip to Denver. I am 374.12 to the good (ahead of where I thought I would be) at this moment. This is not to say that I have 374.12 to just go spend as I please, for one thing I have not managed to save a penny from any of my last three paychecks and if I took that amount of my checking account I would be down 503.56. It is numbers like that that show the realistic assessment of how I am doing in San Francisco. I am not going absolutely broke but rather like a city that balances its budget by cutting maintenance I am keeping afloat at the cost of future losses.
What I worry about is that this is normal for this city, that I will always be cutting corners. That it is not going to get any better than this and indeed since I have what is considered a bargain for housing in this city it could get much worse should anything go wrong. To help relieve my feelings of doom I have today opened a new savings account for the money I already have put aside. It is a good basic positive, as I will be earning much more interest, and remind myself that if things do go wrong I will simply deal with it when it comes up.
What I worry about is that this is normal for this city, that I will always be cutting corners. That it is not going to get any better than this and indeed since I have what is considered a bargain for housing in this city it could get much worse should anything go wrong. To help relieve my feelings of doom I have today opened a new savings account for the money I already have put aside. It is a good basic positive, as I will be earning much more interest, and remind myself that if things do go wrong I will simply deal with it when it comes up.