What do you want first? Good news or bad news? Since most people prefer the bad news first, I'll give that to you: I found out last night that my grandpa has been put on hospice and given a life expectancy of six months. Yeah. BAM. My grandpa was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in the last...year or two? I'm not sure, as I've been in denial. He has suffered much emotional abuse from my grandma in the last fifty years, that I kind of thought he was just acting out to get back at her. No, really. But I guess it's worse than that. I really don't know all the details - supposed to get a phone call this weekend. It's weird not having Joe around to talk to about this. He's not allowed any calls, but he'll be home this weekend, so I'll tell him then. Might start checking flights for the summer too. In the meantime, I've had my sister, and I love her. I mean it's not like I'm particularly close to my grandfather, and I haven't seen him in about five years. But he's still my family. And death is hard. There's actually a lot more I could write about this, but it wouldn't be appropriate.
The good stuff? Well, I survived another week of work. Although I do work this weekend. Bah. Also, as previously mentioned, Joe will be home this weekend, so woohoo!! Since the hospital is full right now, and we're not taking anymore patients, I may be able to just be "on call" for part of the weekend and see my husband for a minute before he disappears again. One good thing about him being in training for so long is that he won't be spending any money, and I can live cheaply. Yes, there's my lead-in to student loan land. Another payment hath been made, with one more pending for the end of the month. My current balance is $13,961.25. YES. I was analyzing my payment history (as usual) tonight to realize that since I began making my aggressive payments on 10/9/09 when my balance due was somewhere between $28,500 and $28,999, I (we) have paid $15,500. SO SO GOOD!!! I'm so obsessed with getting all this paid off, and it feels so good. Get inspired people!! However, as we get closer to having crap paid off, my mind is beginning to wander toward that newer vehicle or appliances or a whatever else. Today, I caught myself scrubbing the rust off of the lid and bleach compartment of my washing machine thinking about a front loader. Still, the saver in me is proud. My washer and dryer was purchased from craigslist for my birthday in 2006 for $300. I paid half and my dad paid the other half. Three and a half years later, the damn things still work - I really don't usually have to scrub the rust off, and my clothes have never gotten stained. With that, why buy a new set when my energy bills are low and my clothes are still clean? Right. Okay, I'll stop being old now. I just really like becoming debt free. It is good.
In other news, it's late, and I gotta go get up and go to post tomorrow AM to talk to a man about a horse. G'night, y'all.
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I'm sorry about your grandpa. I think it's a great idea that you want to spend some time with him, even if you're not all that close. It's like you said, family is family.
I told Nic how much you paid off your school loans...and we're desperate to know how you did it! We've got a home equity loan on a home we're not even living in at a horrendous interest rate and with our move to Japan next month no one will refinance us...what's your secret!!??
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