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TOPIC: Anxiety

  • Femme Folle
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posted 29-07-2012 21:53
Sorry for bringing this back up to the top, but I just wanted to post an update. I'm feeling much less anxious this weekend.

Friday was payday, but the first of the month is right around the corner, so the bills will be due soon too. One payday does not cover all of my monthly bills (does anyone's ever?), but I sat down at my computer and put everything into an Excel spreadsheet--amounts due, due dates, grace periods, income--everything. My next payday is on the 10th, which is also the due date for my mortgage and my HOA fees. It will be cutting it close, but I now have a better mental handle on the situation--which is always better than not having one. It's a huge relief.

I also signed up for an internet service called mint.com, which accesses any of my accounts that I authorize, and puts it together so that I can see it in one place. I think it is going to be a big help to me from now on.

I also stopped drinking caffeinated beverages in the evening, and that has reduced the palpitations. I'll just have to remember this in a few months, when I've become complacent and think that a little caffeine won't hurt anything.

I hope everyone else has had a decent weekend.
posted 29-07-2012 23:07
You will not regret giving up caffeine at night. I am not much of a night owl anymore, but sleep and relaxation is hard to come by if I have any evening caffeine. Much of it could be psychological, but it still affects me adversely.

Good work on the excel worksheet re: bills - I am staring at a variety of bills in front of me to be paid - due dates highlighted, etc. It all gets done on time, but there is some anxiety when I can't remember if I got to it or not.

The hassles of being one of the 99%.
  • Femme Folle
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posted 29-07-2012 23:52
Exactly.
posted 30-07-2012 08:38
So how often do you get paid, then?

Caffeine is a bad thing, I forget this at times too.
  • jw
  • le boycoutt
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posted 30-07-2012 13:12
WOM wrote:
Anticipatory anxiety


Never heard this term before, but it crystallizes well my long-standing problem in never getting anything done, and the general low level of fear with which I share most of my working hours..
  • Femme Folle
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posted 30-07-2012 13:48
TT - Every other Friday.
posted 30-07-2012 14:12
Wow, what a nightmare.
  • Amor de Cosmos
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posted 30-07-2012 16:05
TonTon wrote:


Caffeine is a bad thing, I forget this at times too.


Yeah. I was never an evening coffee drinker but a cuppa before bedtime has been a long standing tradition. Not for the past couple of years though. Caffeine aside, tea and coffee are big-time diuretics. Either of them after about 8:00pm guarantee trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Another joy of aging.
posted 30-07-2012 16:12
I believe (from my own experience) that depression is worse in summer because you think everyone else is having a good time. Summertime blues, etc.
  • Gangster Octopus
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posted 30-07-2012 16:24
Sadly incurable.
posted 31-07-2012 19:47
People telling me to enjoy the fucking awful hot dry weather always makes me feel a lot worse, yeah.
  • Femme Folle
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posted 01-08-2012 00:35
I can't even articulate how much I hate hot weather. Imagine how much you despise whatever it is that you despise most and multiply it by 100--and that won't even be close.
posted 01-08-2012 02:32
TT and FF,

So I can easily rule out you two ever popping by Albuquerque for a summer visit?

I am not a hot weather fan either, but 3 of 4 seasons are excellent.
  • Femme Folle
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posted 01-08-2012 05:36
I have been to Albuquerque, in 2002. I went for a work convention at this place: tamaya.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels-tamaya/

I think it was in March, so the weather was really nice. I need more winter than that, I'm afraid.
posted 02-08-2012 04:15
Tamaya is very nice. Would love to have the $$$ to splurge for a nice weekend hotel package there.
  • Femme Folle
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posted 02-08-2012 05:55
It was fun--just remembered the hot air balloon ride. Glad I didn't have to pay my own way though.
posted 02-08-2012 10:35
I also stopped drinking caffeinated beverages in the evening, and that has reduced the palpitations. I'll just have to remember this in a few months, when I've become complacent and think that a little caffeine won't hurt anything.


I used to stop drinking tea after 6pm and rarely drunk coffee. Now I can have a cup of tea at about 9pm and it doesn't bother me but I put that down to being older and the medication. I drink coffee more now, which is a blessing as I can now drink hot beverages abroad but, again, I think the medication means that it doesn't bother me so.

Hopefully, a light-hearted story about finances on spreadsheets. I was terrible with money when I was younger so put all my finances on a spreadsheet. The wife took the piss out of me mercilessly, all the more so because I was a grand out one month. Of course, there was an issue elsewhere, not on my spreadsheet, so phoned my bank to find out why my monthly wages hadn't been paid into account. I was told it was my company's bank that hadn't paid the money into my account. I phoned them, furious and ready to get my bank charges paid by them and some compensation. They told me that my company had not paid my wages into my account and to take it up with the person who paid my salary.

The person who paid the salaries was my aforementioned wife who had forgot to write my salary down. Needless to say, I have dined out on this story for years and am almost up to the original grand's worth of anecdotes.

The moral of the story is finances on spreadsheets are a good idea and don't work with your wife
  • Femme Folle
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posted 02-08-2012 14:19
I love that story.
posted 02-08-2012 15:00
I was hoping you might
  • Bryaniek
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posted 02-08-2012 22:56
My contract runs out in 11 months and I am in a foreign country.

I feel a latent, slow-brewing anxiety coming on.
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