I love paying my bills!

[phyncke]

And watching all my balances going down. Yes! YES! My goal is to be debt free and I am really working on my spending behavior and all that. I don't shop as a hobby anymore and I know I can really work on more daily habits to cut my spending. But it is a start, a real start.

But step by step to get out of debt. And now, I see that it is working! The balances go down, down, down. Yippee!

In other news - this week was exhausting and I don't feel like I got my head above water. I also felt caught up in minutiae and administratia and not really maximizing my potential. Sometimes that is a matter of getting dumped on by people on my team and part of it is hold overs from what I have always done and the way people view me there. I almost feel like I might have to make a move to get to do professional level work. I have to think about that and really see if I am in the right place. This does not go outside the blog sphere and do not mention it on facebook. Too many work people on there. Keep it secret and safe, folks. I am thinking out loud here on my journal.

Anyways, I am looking forward to the weekend. I am going to see Red Dawn tomorrow and I don't care that it got bad reviews; don't care that it might suck. That is what I want to see. I want eye candy and a thin plot. I don't really want to think and we are in pre-Oscars intellectual movie season. Everything is so deep and meaningful - Life of Pi, Lincoln, Anna Karenina - just give me a movie I don't have to think about! I am brain dead, I suppose.

So that is all I have. Have a good weekend. We have rain for the next millenium here in the Bay Area. Yeah.


by yueshi at mondlichtung on livejournal

Comments

[stephmariemarsh.livejournal.com]

yay for slowing getting out of debt, that is awesome news :) I'm there too. I just paid off a debt from college LOL. I'm horrible I know but I got sucked into the whole credit card/college thing. My dad told me I'd regret it, hate to say it but daddy was right! I should have listened to him back then. Oh well, you live and learn.

Have fun at the movie :) and hope you get to feeling like your old self in no time. I think you might need more sleep maybe?
*hugs*

[chaotic-binky.livejournal.com]

It's good when the balances go down :D

I am several years ahead with my mortgage and hoping to reduce it further next year.

Enjoy Red Dawn!

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

Years ago I had an online subscription to this (http://www.debtproofliving.com/) monthly online magazine. It helped in a lot of ways. I have a contingency fund that has come to the rescue several times when I was between jobs. I pay off my credit card every month - no interest and no fees. And the biggest help was a calculator that told me how much to pay on my mortgage to pay it off by a certain date. That date came over a year ago.

So yeah, debt-free living is awesome. Good for you! It's so rewarding to see the balances go down.

[ardisia.livejournal.com]

Good on you for working towards debt free. This time of year puts the pressure on too.
Sounds like you are feeling like a new job in the new year - or at least getting into that frame of mind. I say, well done the woman who knows her worth in the workplace, it's so often hard to do.

Blessings of water - we now have frost! xxx

[luin77.livejournal.com]

Yay for you taking care of the money-stuff! Money-stuff can be scary and overwhelming, it is great that you told it who is the boss! It is YOU! :)