Friday 5: What Ails ‘Ya

Happy freaking Friday. Today WM got paid for the first time since June and thusly I am walking around like this:

Or this:

We did okay this summer budget-wise and would have completely aced it if it weren’t for Murphy’s neuter and Molly’s 4 new tires. We didn’t budget for either of those. Oh, my computer’s hard drive died on Labor Day, but I hit up the emergency savings for that because my soul dies if I don’t have a big beefy desktop computer. I probably could have just purchased a hard drive but this computer lasted about 6 years, so I got my money’s worth out of it. I harvested the memory cards and the hard drive. I popped the hard drive into an external case and managed to save a lot of my old files INCLUDING my cherished blog font. I guess just the boot sector was bad?

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Anyway, it’s time for the Friday 5. The theme this week is What Ails ‘Ya. Le’s get to it!

1. How do you treat a bad case of the Mondays?

I almost always work from home on Mondays so I’m kind of exempt from them. And a “case of the Tuesdays’ makes me sound too fragile. But if I’m feeling a case of “ugh I don’t want to leave my house to go to work” I make sure I don’t have plans after work so I can go directly home.

2. How do you fight off a case of the blahs?

I sit in the sunshine. Which is a problem when the days grow shorter.

3. How do you deal with a bad hair day?

Now that it’s back to medium-length, I pull it into a bun. My hair’s seriously thick so buns work nicely.

4. What’s your strategy for FOMO?

I don’t have FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) and I wonder if it’s a generational thing. Maybe because I grew up in an era when we didn’t know everything that was going on until it was about to happen or had happened. I think back to how many times I’d idly see on the evening local news program that such-and-such’s concert sold out when tickets went on sale that morning. Now, thanks to Facebook, I know about almost every local Fall/Harvest festival going on in a 30 mile radius. I’m going to miss some of them, but I’m okay with it.

5. How prone are you to Instagram envy?

Not very, although relatedly I often wonder how some bloggers afford the trips and purchases they do. Four kids, one income, monthly trips.