Finance

Another relatively quiet week for me. I did join a gym, which based on some cancellation stories I've seen might as well be signing my life savings away, but I definitely don't have anywhere in my apartment to keep a rowing machine. I'm also nearing the end of my FSA funds about 5 months earlier than I had hoped, which isn't great but I still have some money left over in my old employer's HSA that I need to start spending before the custodian nickel and dimes me out it.

For my hobby account I have had some dividends come in which is nice, it means I have about 5 more dollars than I did before with a smidge more on the way.

For my paper account, my strangle is in the green, though if I was looking short term and had been smart I would have closed it sometime last week for a few hundred in profit, which for a week at a risk of about $10k fake dollars is not so bad, but I am hoping that by looking long term I'll be able to capture something more substantial.

My mother's internal review went through and she not only is going back on disability, but because the decision to kick her off was a wrong decision, they're giving her almost a year's worth of backpay.

Things this means:

• We can actually move to a place without a landlord and her son living in it, giving us tenant rights and the ability to communicate with a landlord without worrying we're going to get evicted
• We can even afford movers
• We might not have to go to a food bank anymore
• We can now budget things instead of being like "okay that goes to rent, that goes to debt, and anything leftover is groceries"
• I don't have to hunt for a job while physically and mentally incapable of doing one right now

I'm honestly so thrilled my head hurts.