Full Immersion - Getting Acclimated

[Daybreak]

Journaling...

The weekend went by pretty quickly. On what was our 19th, S had a friend over for a couple of hours so they had a good time. Before that, I went over to the old place and took care of the yard. I didn't think about W very much - just accepted that it was going to be another typical Saturday and my attitude was pretty positive.

I did get around to setting up various online accounts so that I can start online banking when my next paycheck gets deposited (I get paid monthly so that's extra incentive to keep a very close eye on where the money goes). I have the ability at work to split where my net pay goes so I selected about half of it to go into my new private account and the remainder to my old account which W can access. Since the house is not sold, it's good to keep a decent amount of money routed in there. I don't think I would close it when the D becomes final since it is an easy way to transfer funds between W amd me without having to visit the bank. W has gone out of her way to keep the financial aspects on the up and up so there's no reason to change at this point.

While W was coming to pick up D for her martial arts, she called and asked about what old recurring bills she could close out from her online banking. I kept it light and mentioned that the old phone and cable were no more but the other utilities (power, gas, and water/trash pickup) were still active. I did see W is taking the next two days off from work - on very short notice. Not sure why and frankly don't care. But I do know that I need to make sure to use my vacation days from work (15 days worth at this point) before the end of the year. I've already slotted two of them in late July to go up to Baltimore. I would dearly love to use three more at Thanksgiving to take the kids down to visit family (I have them for that holiday this year) but I don't know if I will have the money to drive down to FL plus board the dogs while I am away. I figure I have until sometime in August before the vets' boarding places begin to fill up to make a decision...