Anyway, something I’ve noticed, in life, not necessarily directly related to your post, is that very many people, perhaps a strong majority, are bad at understanding the confusion of being new at something.

Unfortunately, many people view lack of mastery with lack of skill or intelligence, which is simply wrong. We even do this to ourselves at times — and having some schooling can enhance our proclivity to do so.

When you are new, take every opportunity to ask questions and learn all the ins and outs. In particular, learn all the features of new equipment, the expectations of everyone, and all that fun stuff.

Why? Because the longer you wait to learn it, the less understanding people will have when you are asking questions. We only get a limited amount of time to be new and clueless, and then everyone starts judging.

Which of course brings me to another problem with society. Why is everybody in such a hurry about everything anyway?

Who knows, but I must rush off. Perhaps it is only your writing style, but do cut yourself a bit of slack… work on making a litle progress every day and you’ll accomplish a lot before you know it.

Oh no, I’m late!

It’s good to hear from you! I am thinking of starting my own blog one of these days when we get internet. For the moment, I’m temporarily employed at Pike Creek doing data entry, which is awful, but helping out good people is nice. You and I need to have a financial-advice brainstorming session – it sounds like you have a lot of fab ideas. I wanted to take personal finance but never got a chance to at school. Your situation sounds much like ours. No debt for me, a some for Nathan, a small student stipend for my teaching and a decent paying job for Nathan. I’m sort of freaking out this week about money because a.) we just bought a bed b.) we were charged TWICE for aforementioned bed c.) neither of us gets paid until the end of the month. All of this WILL turn out ok, I tell myself, but it’s somewhat unsettling for the time being.

Tell me about IRAs and renter’s insurance! These are things that interest me greatly. Also, tell me how the Comcast and cell phone plans are working out. Is it absurdly expensive? We have to get our own phone plan in the next week and I’m balking about doing it because it’s expensive and I hate cell phones. But I don’t see how we can do without cell phones. Same with internet – our computers are crap, so why should I spent $50 to access the internet? (but obviously if I don’t cough up the money to comcast then we won’t be able to do our banking online and $1000 bed-purchase double charges would go unnoticed for too long) Blech!

Ok, it’s time for me to get back to work but I’ll give you a call this week and perhaps we can mind-meld on financial strategies.
Love,
Mrs. Nathan

P.S. Mad props to you for keeping the maiden name and adding the Micah’s name! That’s what I did too. I now have four names. Yippee!