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Five Year Plan/s
I’m a planner. My execution isn’t always there, but I almost always have a long-term plan in mind. When I graduated from college, the five year plan looked like this:
2003: Get married
2004: Pay off credit cards
2005: Buy a house
2006: European vacation
2007: Have a kid
The plan was drafted presuming that we would be living in small-town Georgia. We obviously do not live there now, nor do we have children (yet – they are still in the plan, just with a different time horizon). The European vacation almost happened, but my cousin got married in Mobile, Alabama instead.
I keep trying to figure out our plan now. My career plan went out the window a long time ago. Husband’s career has not been predictable and there are too many variables right now for us to make plans farther than 6-12 months out. Must.be.patient.so.hard.for.me.to.do.
Learning Process
otherworldly, originally uploaded by Ilikethenight.
About two years ago, I decided to learn how to knit. I bought a kit at a big-box chain store and a book off the internet. After several frustrating evenings, I almost gave up. I happened to mention to a friend that I wanted to learn and she offered to teach me. Surprise, surprise! She knit in addition to making jewelry, running a business, and still working full time. She taught me and here I am.
Except that the journey from there to here hasn’t been that simple. I remember reading knitting blogs and getting frustrated because I didn’t understand the terminology. I remember going to a chain craft store and getting frustrated because I didn’t understand the difference between different widths of yarn, much less different fiber content. I remember thinking that certain patterns were so hard and I would never be able to do that.
Little by little, I had light-bulb moments. I still have those moments with knitting and even more so with spinning now that I do [a little bit of] that too.
Now it is an odd day when I don’t pick up the needles (or spindle). My world feels out of balance if I don’t.
Husband feels that way about going to the gym.
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Growing Up
I reached back out to a CFP referred to me by a friend. We talked about eight months ago and laid the groundwork for some goals that husband and I have been working on. We are tentatively scheduled for a call next week and I am looking forward to hearing what he has to say.
It is amazing to me that we are even at the point where conversations with professionals make sense. Whenever I run the numbers on our assets versus liabilities, I am dumbfounded (especially when I take out the mortgage liability).
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