Money
Happy new year! Hopefully it's a good one. The topic of this blog post is the good stuff, the moolah, those fat checks. You know, money. If I didn't have to work, I wouldn't. God knows if I won the lottery I would never work another day in my life. Unfortunately I have too much good sense to buy lottery tickets so that is probably unlikely to happen. Instead I earn just below six figures (50k USD for you filthy Americans). That's well above the median wage here and I have a very low rent. I'm extremely privileged to earn this much but it comes with the caveat that I live in a boring shitty town known for agriculture and not much else. The place I want to live, Wellington, is absurdly expensive. My sister quite literally works for Weta Workshop and can barely afford to support herself in Welly. So I'm biding my time until I have at least 100k (NZD) in the bank.
Despite earning a lot of money, I pretty much always worry about it. Am I spending too much? Could I be saving more? What will I do once I have it? It's made my health take somewhat of a turn for the worse because I've been too frugal with food, and gained weight from that frugality backfiring when I run out of food in the fridge halfway through the week and resort to eating out. Being overweight makes me feel utterly disgusting, which leads to comfort eating, and so the cycle has been perpetuating... In the new year I'm going to try and spend more on food, to try to spend less on food. You know, buy healthy and muchly from the supermarket so I don't resort to restaurants so much. My city's Chinese restaurant is probably 50% funded by me alone.
Aside from food, my vices are mostly entertainment. I only have two subscriptions (spotify and neocities) but I love me a good video game and I EXTRA love me a good console. When the Switch 2 comes out I will be first in line. Thankfully I hate clothes shopping and don't shave or wear makeup so I save a lot of money on that (being a hairy lesbian has its perks!)
This year my little brother is studying at the institution I work at. After his one-year certificate, I think I'll consider moving to Wellington. Money can't buy you everything, but it sure as hell can buy you a rental closer to family.