March 16th, 2006
Mad About Money
Since Ken and I decided to finally get life insurance, a whole new realm of grown up ideas - that we should have already known about, but didn’t - have emerged.
I am educating myself feverishly and have had little but money on my mind for about the last seven to ten business days. Opening new accounts, moving the old 401K into something productive, getting lower interest rates, and the aforementioned life insurance.
Ken kinda wonders if I’m planning to do him in.
Nothing sinister is afoot. I just fling myself at whatever is on my mind at the moment and work at it until I am exhausted by - but well informed about - the topic at hand. Money is so endlessly complicated. I just funded our first money market account yesterday. I really have so little idea what a money market is, it’s kinda sad. But I trust the company (USAA) and figure we can always change it later if a better option presents itself.
[Mary Hunt][1] might not have made it up, but she is the first person I know of who said that money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does bestow choices.
Who doesn’t like choices? And it is about time we started making choices with our money the scope of which are long range. Then the choices that it bestows onto us later will be worth making.
Still diggin’ my [Sunbutter][2]; by the spoonful or with something. Mmmm. In fact, I need to get my next jar. (The cookies were good, but not all I hoped for. It might have been the recipe I used…)
So glad I didn’t get the soy stuff. Soy just doesn’t seem like real food to me. Is it because it’s so often made into stuff that’s supposed to be substituting for something else? (Something that *is* real?)
Gotta go and get some cleaning done. I can’t be a full time accountant and full time homemaker simultaneously. Clearly.
[1]: http://www.cheapskatemonthly.com/
[2]: http://sunbutter.com/