Once upon a time, I had 4 student loans. For a lot of money. My brain doesn't compute big numbers, so I can't really tell you how much they all added up to, but it was a lot, many thousands. But my mom paid off her half of them when she inherited some money, and I always tried to pay down at least a little more than the minimum every month. So for a while now I've only had 2 left. But they were still a lot. Bigger than I can tell you.
Today I thought maybe I had about $950 left to go on both those loans. (That's under $1000 so I actually can compute it.) So I was really happy to see it was more like $850. One for around $250 and one for around $600. (My husband was really surprised because he thought I was still at $3000.) So then I looked at my finances and sent in a payment for $250 something and however many cents it was. So once that payment processes I'll only have ONE LOAN LEFT! For like $600!
OH HECK YES!!!!!!!!!
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Hooray for Monies!
I made lots of money at the ArtWalk - like $140 or something and then I had to give them $19. And then I made maybe $40 or so more the next day at the Farmers Market, which was kind of surprising because I thought maybe people would be all "bought out" from the night before!
It definitely made staying up till 3:30am on Thursday night worth it, but I really don't want to do that again for a while. Luckily I got to take naps on Saturday and today.
Saturday night I had to do my photoshop lesson over because the computer ate it or something, and the mouse sucks and I messed it up so I had to do it AGAIN, but I finally sent it in and did the next exercise and sent that one in, and then we went to Subway and then to the square and caught the second half of the Public Property concert. (those guys are really good, quite polished, I love the dancers)
It's nice to have some cash on hand - I spent kind of a lot today actually - G and I picked 7 pints of raspberries at the Pooles $3 per box, and then we stopped at the gem and mineral show and I got some green stone chips, and some grey freshwater pearls, plus some really neat little square shaped flat pearls. The first two strands were $4 & $3, but the square pearls were $24 for 39 pearls - but he gave me a $1 discount so they were $23. They are really neat and unusual though, so I bet I could charge a bit more if I made earrings out of them. Actually even if I just used one per earring and made 5 pairs at $5 I'd make the $ back and still have 29 left... so I think it was good.
It also meant little things like I could get some Indian fry bread and a cup of cucumber lime juice while I was at Farmer's Market, and I could get coffee AND French toast tomorrow. I didn't realize what a pinch I've been feeling really, not having cash. I really valued it more though and was pretty conscious about my choices yesterday and today and I really savored/enjoyed them. yay.
And then we got to have dinner with B & P at B's new place. I brought tangerine iced tea with mint, and we had cheese and crackers and grapes and popcorn and minestrone and foccacia out on her lovely porch, and we saw my brother for the first time since he got back from Burbank, and then a lovely night of conversation. more YAY!
All in all, a very very good weekend. yum.
It definitely made staying up till 3:30am on Thursday night worth it, but I really don't want to do that again for a while. Luckily I got to take naps on Saturday and today.
Saturday night I had to do my photoshop lesson over because the computer ate it or something, and the mouse sucks and I messed it up so I had to do it AGAIN, but I finally sent it in and did the next exercise and sent that one in, and then we went to Subway and then to the square and caught the second half of the Public Property concert. (those guys are really good, quite polished, I love the dancers)
It's nice to have some cash on hand - I spent kind of a lot today actually - G and I picked 7 pints of raspberries at the Pooles $3 per box, and then we stopped at the gem and mineral show and I got some green stone chips, and some grey freshwater pearls, plus some really neat little square shaped flat pearls. The first two strands were $4 & $3, but the square pearls were $24 for 39 pearls - but he gave me a $1 discount so they were $23. They are really neat and unusual though, so I bet I could charge a bit more if I made earrings out of them. Actually even if I just used one per earring and made 5 pairs at $5 I'd make the $ back and still have 29 left... so I think it was good.
It also meant little things like I could get some Indian fry bread and a cup of cucumber lime juice while I was at Farmer's Market, and I could get coffee AND French toast tomorrow. I didn't realize what a pinch I've been feeling really, not having cash. I really valued it more though and was pretty conscious about my choices yesterday and today and I really savored/enjoyed them. yay.
And then we got to have dinner with B & P at B's new place. I brought tangerine iced tea with mint, and we had cheese and crackers and grapes and popcorn and minestrone and foccacia out on her lovely porch, and we saw my brother for the first time since he got back from Burbank, and then a lovely night of conversation. more YAY!
All in all, a very very good weekend. yum.
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