I\u2019m going to start off the adjustment to my new reality by limiting my soda intake to no more than two 12oz cans of diet soda per week. I\u2019m going to drink water as my primary source of hydration. I\u2019m going to take the opportunity to make some lemonade out of the lemons I\u2019ve been handed. I think I might have ulcers from the poor choices I\u2019ve made. But, as they say, the only hole you can\u2019t dig yourself out of is the grave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t know what I am doing or where my journey will head but the next step is some personal finance education. I\u2019ll do that tomorrow and learn how to create a budget. I\u2019ll use YouTube to teach me everything my father never did. I\u2019m going to be able to save more money instead of not knowing where it\u2019s going. I\u2019m going to think carefully and live with my head not in the sand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is already helping me to feel better. Maybe I will feel like I have more control over my life. Perhaps I won\u2019t feel as if I am so subject to the whims of the man<\/em>. My earnings will matter more and I\u2019ll build some self-esteem and a sense of pride an accomplishment for learning on my own. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m going to start off the adjustment to my new reality by limiting my soda intake to no more than two 12oz cans of diet soda per week. I\u2019m going to drink water as my primary source of hydration. I\u2019m going to take the opportunity to make some lemonade out of the lemons I\u2019ve been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}