Achievement Unlocked! First Dividend

So there has been quite a bit of fluctuation on the stockmarket in the last couple of days. Daily ups and downs have easily come to a couple days salary on my part. It has been a learning experience, to say the least, in my moderating my actions and reactions to these movements. _(:3」∠ )_

More than once, I've had friends and co workers say to me "The market is up, let's go eat out at somewhere nice tonight" for me to reply "Its not a true earning until you cash out, and even then, the tax man has to take a cut first". As anticlimactic as it sounds, I dont think that you can really consider yourself as having earned the money until it has been liquidated.

Anyway, the point though is that coming home from work today, I received a nice surprise in the mail (๑•̀ω•́๑). My first dividends ever *\(^o^)/*. So although I can't consider market volatility as being my gains, dividends are most certainly mine.

Will I go out and get a nice dinner with it though? No. Will I be a sensible girl and reinvest it in the market? Also no 乁( ˙ω˙ )厂

I already went and spent it all on a birthday gift for my ボーイフレンド , in my opinion, the best investment of them all.

By 小福