studiousness

Back at work today and just an hour left to go. I am glad, mostly, to be back at work. The structure of the work day really helps me out, being on vacation without any set plans meant I spent (or perhaps misspent) a lot of time thinking about what I should be doing but not actually doing it. Today I went down to the gym and ran 3 treadmill miles around 11:30 and then came back and had lunch and have been cleaning up in my office ever since. A good day. Oh and I just paid my credit card bill. I am so embarrassed to even have one: I saved money for christmas and was determined to get through the gift giving season without carrying around plastic debt but it snuck up on me: all of it spending on non-christmas items (groceries, gas, drinks, more groceries) to the tune of $300. Plus $40 I spent on a tutu in a fit of please-like-me-ness that I don't really want to talk about(I saw it on the statement and was all frustrated all over again with myself. Sometimes I want way to badly to be liked. And tutus are not going to help. And I know this, and yet...). So I never carry a balance, and was kind of flustered by the fact that my due date for payment was today, and I had a balance, and it said there was no payment due --I think because I last paid in mid-December, though I don't admit to entirely understanding, so because of that I paid the balance in full today from my E-Fund, in a little mini panic about possibly screwing up my credit score by missing a payment. That is an emergency, right? The panic more than the actual $340 I mean. I have the E-Fund so that if something bad happens I have money to help, so I'm totally counting this as an emergency (small "e" though). I think I'll pay it back into my E-Fund with my next paycheck most likely, but hooboy that was a tense minute there.