I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…

Tell All Tuesday: Holiday Edition

Thank you all for the concern for my daughter after my last post.  She is doing better - I can’t say she is 100% yet, but she is definitely on the way there.  The swelling has disappeared, and now we’re just dealing with the rash and endless itching.  Hopefully that will start getting better soon and she’ll be back to normal.

It is almost Wednesday, but on top of all the craziness going on here already, our internet and cable went out last night and was out for most of today.  My son did have fun watching all the technicians in our yard and our neighbor’s yard for several hours figuring out the source of the problem, though.  Now it is fixed and I can get back into the swing of things, I hope.

The holiday today thwarted my plans to be all crazy.  I am thankful to our veterans and happy they have a holiday, I just forgot for a while that meant that banks were closed.  Although it would be better to wait until Friday when I and my spouse get paid, I decided that using my tutoring paycheck from last month (I get paid the 4th business day of the following month) combined with what I’ve saved to snowflake and our discretionary money (basically grocery and gas money) this week, I could just go ahead and pay off the car today.  I would just have to wait until the weekend to grocery shop when we got our paychecks, and be very careful about any random spending.  But then I remembered the bank was closed.  And I came to my senses.  I can wait until Friday.  I don’t need to tempt fate.   I was actually thinking about doing it because I can’t take my daughter inside anywhere but she is happy driving around in the car, so the bank drivethrough would be somewhere to go.  But I ended up waiting around here all day and dealing with the cable repair people, so it didn’t end up mattering.

I’m being impatient, and I know I shouldn’t be.  The last time I was really impatient, with the credit card payoff, my car died when I only had a little over $100 left to pay off.   And it ended up having to wait another month.  So patient I will be.  I will probably end up waiting until Monday to go pay off the car.   That way I can wait until our bank clears both our paychecks and not leave anything up to chance.

I wonder how impatient I’ll feel when I’m down to only the $11000 debt.  On the one hand - it is one debt!  But on the other hand, it feels enormous.  But if all goes according to plan, I think it will be the 8 month or less debt.

But when have things ever gone according to plan…

I am looking forward to life returning to some semblance of normal.  Hopefully sooner rather than later!

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