My taxes are done, and the first large picture is hung on the wall above my bed. I still think about when I used to move into an apartment and everything major was done within the first month of occupancy and have to remind myself that as long as it gets done eventually, that's the important thing. As I get older I'm looking at years in a place, not months or maximum one year, and there will be time to improve things in this apartment until I win the lottery and buy a house (hahaha...not gonna happen).

I can't believe it's March already and time for the clocks to change again. It was one year ago that I started my new job at SIB and I can't believe that I was lucky enough to land there. I'm still doing what I love, and what I'm good at, and making a positive impact. Oddly enough I was hired at LIB about a year and a half before the Great Recession, and with the collapse of SVB this past week I'm wondering if the US may be entering a similar scenario. I hope with every fiber of my being that's not going to happen again, but I also know the instability in the system and just how vulnerable things can be even when they look fine on the surface.

I can hope that if the SHTF that I'll be able to keep my job and emerge on the other side of the recession, but do so without the horrific stress and undue burden I placed on myself, with fewer regrets and healthier emotional, physical, and mental responses than the disastrous ones I fostered during that period. One key lesson I learned was to not obsess over what may happen. Prepare for the worst case of losing my job and a poor economy, but don't drive myself crazy over what-ifs when there's nothing I can control about what may happen beyond doing my job well.

In short, interesting times ahead. I'm not surprised, but I'm not holding my breath either. Time to put my head down and just focus on the small things, plan for the future, and cross my fingers.