Ok, done hiding.

I know people get sick. I know people get sick a lot more often than I'll ever be in my lifetime. I am really thankful for my health. I have a rather strong immune system that goes unnoticed by all. But once it does get hit, it crumbles. Hard and fast. So I've been getting my rear end handed to me these past two weeks courtesy of a common cold that has behaved a hair short of pneumonia+bronchitis. In my defense, last time I had a cold, I did end with bronchitis. So I've been playing safe. It is finally leaving, though not fully gone.

I've also been hiding from the world with little to no success. After my big failure called Feb 2012, I am STILL waiting for the smoke to clear in order to assess all the damages. I've been trying to hide from this blog not to fess up to my mess. The lack of control and getting sick kind of did me in, so I'm ignoring it until I have to do another recap later in March.

If there was one thing I learned in college was that changing too many variables at once was a bad idea. In math, science, philosophy, heck, even in English. If you were doing something, don't change all of the variables at once. It's just a bad idea.

Well, I had no control over much during the second half of February, so I thought, if it's gonna be bad, let me go ALL out and make it terrible. So I did open a credit card solely for the rewards. I did borrow from my EF, and I got sick. I juggled money from one account to the next, and although I think I did everything correctly, it's almost untraceable and hard to pinpoint.

On the good side, I got my individual cellphone line. It will add $70/mo to my expenses. I would LOVE to upgrade my phone, but I am rather sure I've talked myself out of it... at least until I'm done with this mess. I have not moved my car insurance, and apparently, I am locked in for another 6 months. Yay?

It is driving me nuts not being able to see the clear picture I learned to love and care for, that was my budget. So simple, so clear cut. Everything coming out of a same place, and into another place. It was the perfect black and white photo. This new chaos has me spazzed and I am overly anxious to see it settle down, hopefully by tomorrow.

So budget-wise, for March, I am looking to refilling my EF with that extra paycheck next week, figuring out what the heck happened, and enjoying my vacations. I've only spent about $9 OTC medication since March started. I guess we can consider that a good sign.