One Caveman’s Financial Journey

If you know me, you know that I push myself until I drop.  I’m always going and I always neglect to carve out time for sleep, rest, and relaxation.  As an offshoot of my perfectionism, I’m unable to really stop working unless I completely leave everything behind.  But even if I don’t have work in front of me, my mind is still crunching on it, which makes getting to sleep difficult at times.

I’m headed for a crash.  I know it, but I don’t know if I can stop it.  I’m trying to kill as much debt as I can before the baby arrives by taking on extra work or cultivating side income generators, such as this blog.  On top of that sit my household and family obligations, church commitments, and my own personal goals to attend to.  It’s almost as if I’m burning the candle not only from both ends, but from the middle as well.

Of course, I’m not likely to change.  It’s just part of being me.  So I really don’t know why I wrote this other than to say I need a nice, long vacation from work so at least I can get one distraction out of the way in hopes of catching up with my other distractions.  I have 3 weeks of vacation saved up - 2 of which will be used when the baby arrives - and I need to seriously consider using that third week to give me a chance to recover.

Have you ever run into that situation where things kept getting added to your list, but nothing ever quite fell off?  How did you push through without simply keeling over from stress and exhaustion?

Oh well, enough of my whining for this week.  Here are some good articles I would like to share with you that I read this week:

• ChristianPF - How to calculate MPG
• I’ve Paid For This Twice Already… - Working An Unpredicted Expense Into The Budget
• Gather Little by Little - Buying a used auto with high miles
• Blueprint for Financial Prosperity - Don’t Go To A Private University
• On a Quest To Be Debt Free… - What is a Household Notebook?
• Clever Dude - Riches do not equal Prosperity
• My Two Dollars - 13 Ways To Save Money And Go Green.
• Frugal Dad - How to Become a Millionaire in 10 Years
• The Simple Dollar - The Frugal Whole Chicken (or, Waste Not, Want Not)
• The Dough Roller - How to Invest in a Mutual Fund
• Get Rich Slowly - The Myth of Multitasking: How Doing It All Gets Nothing Done

Just a reminder:  On September 1st, I host the Carnival of Personal Finance.  Don’t forget to submit your best articles of the week next week!

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