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I am always paranoid when I get emails from places I don't know and they have my correct email and some old phone number. I just got one from some spa in MI and they had my old phone number on the account. Who signed me up for this? Who logged me in? Where are they getting their info? Why? It weirds me out. I wish I could flush my name from every database out there some days. Or at least track down which ones have my old info and purge that.

Rained here yesterday. The morning was beautiful. Teaching class, watching the rain outside the window. A little chill in the air. Yeah, I like it here. I like being able to keep the windows open at night.

You ever think about what 'life changing' means when it comes to money? I started thinking about it yesterday. I was thinking about in January signing back up for our 401k. Just a little bit, like $100 a pay period. Not enough that I would miss it, but with matching, enough to feel like I have some money put away. It got me thinking about that concept. Everyone's perspective is different on that. For some, $10,000 would be life changing. Maybe get them an apartment for a year. Buy a car to get to work. Get their kid the supplies they need for school. For others, it takes more. Maybe even less depending on where you are. For me, I think about what would truly 'change' my life. Would $10,000? No. It would improve my life, but not change it. Not dramatically at least. It made me think about what would change my life. The answer? $75,000. Enough to pay off all my debt, pay off my car, and set me towards being able to save for a house. That would drastically change my life. Anything more would be life altering. Like $150,000. That would pay everything off AND give me the money for a down payment. Imagine that. Being able to wipe the slate. There it is. There's the answer. How much does it take to clean the slate? Heck, to be fair, even $50,000 would be life changing. But just barely. It would not be immediately life changing. It would change things over the course of a year. Same goes for a smaller amount. If I came into $25,000 tomorrow with no obligations on it, it would dramatically enhance things, but it would take at least one to two years to see the true benefits. Just pondering as no one is about to give me $25,000 that I know of any time soon. Sigh.

Taught all day to the sound of rain. Finished up around 2:40 and fell asleep. I didn't mean too. I was struggling to stay awake while teaching. It was too warm and cozy in my office. My big plush chair, the rain, the soft light. Yeah. I was out cold for almost two hours. When I woke up, B was asleep but I saw she had gone to the store for dinner stuff. We went old school last night - sloppy joes and tater tots. Rock on. I also managed to find one of the missing boxes. It was in the garage and had been put there because they all thought it was a box with soap that had leaked. Nope. It was Blue Curacao that leaked. The rest of my booze was in there too. Two bottles of whiskey, coffee liquor, etc. Got all that put away, took down the remaining clothes boxes, then did shoes. Got all my shoes either boxed up or put away. All that's left for me are the clothes boxes. I hope to finish those tonight, then do picture hanging, and we will be done.

It looks like this weekend I may be going to a comic con in Portland. Excited about that. Excited about doing stuff in general. We have done more in the last week than in the prior month. That makes me happy. That's life changing.