Grocery store is a GENIUS IDEA and I will be researching. I'm worried about the commitment-level (sometimes I really DO work 15-hour days and want to still be flexible and available to do that when needed) but the poetic balance of working at a grocery store would just be too perfect.
Looking into Wag and Rover as very likely possibilities, and this AirBnb experience thing is a whole new world that I'm going to need to take some time to learn about.
Hi, monstermonster!! Shockingly, no. That's my health spending with FREE HEALTH INSURANCE (Thanks, Obama). That's therapy costs plus my back. I have a little chronic back issue that can be occasionally debilitating (that's not an understatement -- it's really no big deal most of the time, until I tweak it tying my shoes every six months or so), and I am doing the "smart" thing and throwing as much physical therapy and acupuncture and body-healing and this-and-that yoga and this-and-that suspended exercise class at it to see if anything will make it just go away. ACA covers the acupuncture (!) but that's it (doesn't cover the counseling either). It's hard to know with the health stuff whether something is a splurge or whether it's an investment, and I'm a little bit scared to let the ruthless optimization of my budget touch my spine and pelvis. I guess... It's more important to me to have a body that can do everything I want it to than to have financial independence. Of course, I'm absolutely sure there's a balance somewhere in between $575 and $0 that will help me have both things more easily.