I Forgot How Much Money I Make

Seriously, I can't remember my salary! I was thinking about it just now and I know it is over $100k, but I don't remember how much. At one point it was $102k, but is it now more? $106k? $110k? I have been getting small raises each year, and just got one recently, so I should remember this more precisely, but I just don't. 

This just seems very unlike me. I pay so much attention to money in so many ways, but much less than I used to. I by no means advocate ignoring these things-- I have always said that paying close attention to your finances is the best way to keep them in control. But on the flip side, it can be a bad idea to micromanage them. Investments are often best left alone to sit and grow rather than fiddling around with too much trading. I check my Etrade account a lot less than I used to, which actually made it  quite gratifying recently to see that one of the stocks I bought a couple of years ago has doubled in share price. (At least it had before this past Friday's slump.) And sometimes it's good to avoid seeing a big downturn in investment performance, so you can avoid that temptation to panic-sell at a low. 

Anyway, I am really quite curious now to see what my current salary is, so I am going to stop writing for a moment and go check...

... OK, I'm back. $112,717 is my current salary. That is higher than I thought, so good news. But now I think I will try to forget again and try to behave as if I made less!