Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: 3-25-25

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

3-25-25

W: 312.0 BS: 139

~~Stop the bleeding~~
~~Pay bills?~~
~~Dishes~~
~~Laundry~~
~~Laundry 2~~
~~Vacuum~~
~~Fire & Wood~~
~~Air house~~
~~Clean out grill and grates~~
~~Clean out wood stove~~
~~Trash~~
~~Chickens~~
~~Plant stuff~~
~~Taxi 1~~
~~Taxi 2~~
~~Make breakfast and dinner~~

'Fire lit and window open' kind of day.

Woke at two with my standard teacher nightmare. Losing control of a chaotic classroom and having it all go to shit. Not sure how that applies to my current life, but I have suspicions. Woke again at four with my brain dwelling on money. Specifically the one credit card I have attached to Amazon, that is nearly maxed out. All the others are $0.

THIS is why I always hated credit cards. Spending money is an easy drug, maybe the worst of them all. It leads to slavery. The bleeding must be stopped.

I took everyone else off my Amazon account and then I took off every payment method but my debit card. Yes, all our meds come from A-zon, but *mine* cost $5 a month for all of them together. Theirs? Not so much. She will need to address that. From now on I'm evaluating every single penny spent on Amazon with a fine tooth magnifying glass.

Meanwhile, the drugs that help stop my chest from aching.

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"