Am excited to be able to budget.

Since losing my one elder care job and probably getting set up in the same type of elder care job but through a home, I'm really, really stoked to finally be able to budget.

All my adult life, I've never had a stable income stream, where I could estimate my monthly outlay, and then know something like, "Okay, I have fifty dollars this week I can spend on extra stuff."

That's because I was always working multiple jobs to heap up a lot of money, and I was in boom-and-bust cycles where I'd be flush with cash during the academic year but be dry during the summer, and whatnot.

It's really sort of exciting to have just two part-time jobs that give me consistent hours forever, extending outwards to the horizon.

Finally, I can plan more, in ways that people think is default normal, but were never available to me.