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Had Italian grapes for breakfast.
After my morning routine, I sat down to continue working on my sermon for the 25th. I didn’t expect to finish it, but I did. I even translated it. I also managed to keep it to around 3,000 words, so it’s just the right length. Maybe I’ll publish it here.
This made me quite happy. I can start working on my sermon for next month now.
Set up my Bear Blog right before lunch. It’s been such a back-and-forth fight in my head over whether I should return or not, given that I’ve started a thousand blogs on here and ended up deleting all of them. I’ve been craving the writing though, so even if this leads nowhere, at least I will have gotten it off my system.
I had a long conversation with my wife about our finances and future plans. She feels anxious because we’re not saving as much as she thinks we could. I’m surprised that we’re saving as much as we are. I gave her a rundown on our current budget. She agreed with me in the end. Still, she’s afraid that it will disappear somehow before we make good use of it.
In her mind, she wanted us to buy an apartment once we move to Jēkabpils. It didn’t occur to me that she considered that a possibility. I always told her that we’re saving this money for the moving expenses.
I suggested that she talk to her parents about this, since part of our plan, whether we buy or rent, is to obtain an apartment that is large enough that they could move in with us. My father-in-law father is still working, though he could retire (he actually loves his job, unlike what I had before). My mother-in-law is retiring soon.