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* Also, knowing just how little I have sometimes makes me a bit upset with myself.  But, I made that additional reconciliation column, so now I know exactly what I have available.  Future iteration will combine this actual-money concept with an artificial-accounts thing, so I don't need to open anything else.

* I think that if I manage to set up a watering reminder and actually follow it for a while, then I'll let myself get another plant.  No more pretties until I can take care of the one I have.

Though it is notable that my current plant still lives.

Fret: what if I miswater my plant?  Response: get better.

* I kind of want a scooter.  Not like now, more like ever.  It'd be nice to not be tied to the bus if I want to do things like visit Josh for some of the day, or go out to the bar, or whatever.  Or my arms hurt and I want to go grocery shopping.  Or I want to go to the coast.  So, for my way-future reference.

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I have about 50/50 luck with plants, indoors. I'm not sure if it's me or the plants all the time, but I think it my be the plants so I thought I might suggest to you the plants that I couldn't kill if I tried; you may have specific plants you want or you might just want some nice greenery with maybe double duty, ie useful in some way, so here's what I've found:
Ivy
Mint
Aloa Vera
Cinnamon Basil

I have the advantage of a sunroom that does get all my indoor plants a huge amount of sun, even in winter, but it's also the coldest room in the house in winter, despite the sunshine. But, the whole "lots of sunshine on the plants" thing is probably a factor in my plants surviving indoors.

My ivy was just a tiny little thing in a six inch pot when I bought it. It now has 6 foot, yes FOOT, long trailings. And there's been times I haven't watered it for days. It's a monster, a big green monster!

My mint was a big green monster as well. I wanted to have more herbs and just had no more room for a big giant pot, what with the big green monster ivy, so I finally took a bunch of mint cuttings and put some in the yard so we'd have mint and killed the big one inside. It took a lot of effort to kill it, I unpotted it, crushed it up, tossed it into compost and three weeks later...*it was still alive and starting to take root in the compost*!!! In the yard, when it hits winter, it dies off to nothing but dead stalks, which we cut down, and in spring it comes back. It's back already now and I've already made mint tea from it.

Aloe Vera is a succulent...all cacti are succulents but not all succulents are cacti...and it's nigh invernerable. The whole point is, well, it retains its own water so it can, in fact, go weeks without water. And it has medicinal uses!

Cinnamon basil is much, much, MUCH hardier than your average sweet italian basil and the taste is not cinnamon, really, just a bit...sharper and spicier than sweet basil. I had one little six inch plant that I took cuttings of and kept planting them outside or into other pots, and we harvested a GIGANTIC amount of basil, I used fresh basil in tons of cooking all last summer, I gave basil plants away to neighbors, and we still have dried basil hanging in the basement...a lot of it. I did totally neglect it this winter, like...not a couple three days between waterings but about 2 months of absolutely no care at all until it was dead...but it can take missing days here and there and not suffer too much for it, it's really easy to keep alive.