Lack of Sleep – Lots of Work – Yeah, I’m Happy
Funeral weekend was a whirlwind. I hope to have the thank-you card over to @Tzurriz by the end of the day, but my deadline keeps me firmly at my desk while my need for respect makes it impossible to say thank you with anything less than a hand written note. (She sent a fruit basket that’s kept my kids happy for two days, drenched in fruit juicy goodness – that deserves a paper note!)
But the projects in front of me represent a turning point in our budget next month. Where the last “large chunk of money” goes out and we might actually, really, no kidding be paying off the car next month (If you had a dollar for every time I’ve said that you’d have, like, five whole dollars…I know…) But I keep saying it out loud because the intent is no less important this month than it was last month.
If you follow me on Twitter, you know I have about 22,500 words to write by Monday morning, and I’m writing in my blog instead. Because I’m a slacker. Or, wait…maybe it’s because I’m really tired and didn’t get the full night’s sleep I hoped for last night, or the night before.
The kids are sick. I’m sick. We’re all exhausted. But that doesn’t make the deadlines go away, and I know I have another project going through on Monday I have to be ready to write for. If I can get it all in by the end of the month for payment in November…well..it’ll be a good month and the car will be easier to pay off.
I’m cheating on Dave Ramsey – I’m paying down debt simultaneously with building the savings account. I know I’m supposed to just have an emergency account, but building that without paying things off was not giving us the satisfaction we needed to keep going.
We’re having a home phone line installed on the 10th of November and I need to be 100% certain that the only calls that come in on that line are people who dialed my number – no bill collectors. We’re down to one, by the way. One that I’m more than happy to let Randy set up an auto-debit for if they call before the 1st of the month. One little $200 bill and phase one of the debt-paying off is complete.
I’ll do a separate post on the debt groupings, as well as on the one creditor that is an idiot par none.
So I’m running on fumes from not enough sleep, I’m working like a dog to meet a morning deadline….and things are really good. We’ll miss gramma, sure, but the sun came up and things go on and we can miss her while we work.
Hopefully I’ll get some decent sleep tonight.
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