Today featured gray skies and snow flurries ALL DAY. Oh, Mr. Golden Sun peeked out for 15 minutes or so but otherwise… At least the flurries were actually flurries and the roads stayed easily navigable.

It was a little angsty around here today (again). I’ll just lay it out there. It was time to roll over my 401K. I mean, I’m not sure there is a time limit exactly, just that it needed to be done and my “Landfill” financial manager decided it was time. This involved a trip to [insert financial institution here] (a car trip, I mean), a call to a relative, and some monkeying around on the financial institution’s website, which had been a bit inscrutable on a previous visit. I suspect I would’ve been able to bash through the user interface, “retaaared UX designer” that I am but I had no interest in dealing with the whole thing (and did not even go in person to the financial institution).

So that got taken care of with a minimum of shouting (actually no shouting) and the landfill guy even apologized to me if the whole thing was causing me anxiety. It was but I was okay and I appreciated his thoughtfulness. I worked for Corporate America for 18 years and the only time I remember doing anything with my 401K was when my “official” financial advisor (the one I pay) said, “kick it up to the max that they will match”. He was right and I did. Pronto.

I was fine with the whole thing but it is a little weird when you have to “close out” (roll over or whatever) something you have been basically ignoring for 18 years.

I hesitated to write about this because it’s kind of private and I am careful about what I share. But everybody (at least those of us fortunate enough to have first world problems like 401Ks) has to do this at some point, so I’m just one of the many trying to protect (and hopefully grow) their retirement income as long as they can (and our currently shady government will let us). I have sanitized this as much as possible to provide an “every woman’s” experience.

But yesterday? Look at that sky! Mr. Golden Sun doesn’t always show his face but he is swinging up again!

P.S. My brain (at the moment) cannot think of a better word than “shady” for our current federal government. There is shadiness but “shady” doesn’t begin to comprehensively describe what’s going on. If you can think of a better word, I’d love to hear it!

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