Run!!!! Do NOT walk!!!! to your local Community College website. Do they offer an Introduction to Massage class?
Sign up for it.
Yes, I know it’s a non-credit course. Fit it into your schedule. FIND the money. Beg borrow or steal. Mine costs around $55.
Do it now.
What, precisely are you waiting for?
Oh yeah, details.
Okay, so here’s the thing. In this Introduction to Massage class, it’s hands on learning. Do you know what that means??!!??
For the next three weeks, I’m getting a massage from a classmate. Last night we learned hands and feet, and ohmygod I feel so much better. I also made a new friend (HI DAWN!!!!) but that’s just a benefit.
Four massages. For $55.
Convinced yet?
I did indeed fall behind in my 30-days of abundance spending. Work and the story I’m working on have been distracting me. But never fear! Today I get to spend $102,400 - and I’m going to invest in a friend with that money.
My friend owns a defunct bakery, and wants to get it going again. That money can go toward the upgrades necessary to bring the bakery up to current code, as well as give her the ability to quit her day job and concentrate on the bakery full time. Her advertising costs would be minimal - people still contact her for her baked goods. And let’s not forget the cost of restocking ingredients.
photo credit: chellyc
I’m participating in The Millionaire Mommy Next Door’s abundant life spending spree
30 days of spending
The Millionaire Mommy Next Door Wants More Money, which is a concept I can definitely get behind. She says
For the next 30 days, I’ll open my mind to receive increasingly more money. On day one, I’ll decide how I’d like to spend $100. On day two, I’ll double that amount to $200. Day three, double again and I’ll have $400. And so on, doubling every day for the next 30 days. I’ll list how I’d like to spend every penny, with no repeating of items during my month-long spending spree.
I will, however, be repeating items occasionally - MMND has one child, I have three. Shopping for them is incredibly different, since the boys could quite cheerfully run around all day in boxerbriefs and a beater and my daughter could quite cheerfully run around bedecked in Hollister and PacSun.
So how would I spend $100 right now? Hair and feet, baby. I haven’t had a pedicure since I was pregnant with Daniel, and I’d dearly love to let my darling new stylist have free reign on my haircolor. Since I work with my hands so much, manicures are pretty much a waste of time. By the time my nails get long enough for me to say “Hmm, I should probably slap a coat of paint on these babies”, they break.
Wow, this IS going to be fun!
30 days of spending
For those of you who follow astrology, Mercury is in retrograde until June 19 - a perfect time to wrap up loose ends, dial it back, and go slooooowly.
My desk is desperately in need of some TLC. Specifically, I need to shred some things. I need to file some things. I need to dust some things.
I’ve embraced the fact that I need to spend money on a desk chair. I spend entirely too much time sitting here between school and getting my geek on to have a backache. Can’t change out the desk (I love it. It’s not my absolute FAVORITE, but I love it just the same) because it weighs a ton and the alternative weighs even more.
What else do I need to do? Finish making flashcards for Spanish. Find out what I need to read to get back into The Game. Experiment with my new toy. Finish the half-dozen things I’ve got sitting around here waiting to be done.
We need to move I can’t find a house I can afford we need a new sitter if the boys are in school I’ll never see them unless I change jobs but I can’t change jobs without affecting my school schedule and I CAN’T do that because I’ll be a junior and so.close. to completing my degree and the laundry needs folding and the closet needs to be rotated and the boys need summer clothes and my daughter needs a car and wants a job and my insurance is income-based so if I make more money I’ll lose that insurance and jobs that pay well enough to have GOOD insurance coverage won’t generally let you take two days off to attend classes and do homework and I need new clothes and shoes for work but if I’m changing jobs then I won’t NEED clothes like that anymore and holyshit my DAUGHTER wants a JOB which is a good thing because I’ll know she’s at work and not off getting “into trouble” (she’s a good kid but she’s fifteen and OMG!) and I want to go home and cook but I have class in an hour and I want to grill a steak and some asparagus and be able to sit down. And eat.
Amen.
