(Originally March 15 2006)
I got a Comment from a bloggersby, which really lit my fire. I guess I know why we blog now--! Ain't nothing like an audience to feedback the deal, although the process is therapeutic.
So since last entry, I decided that I like my job enough to know I'll do anything to keep it. And in keeping it, I can now expect a regular paycheck. SO...I returned a call from a creditor and made a payment deal. Then today I actually initiated ANOTHER call to arrange the same type of thing with another one.
That's me DOING the damn thing.
Two down and six to go. I put it in a spreadsheet and am plotting out all my payments until the end of the year. Every time I make a payment (or let them take it out of my bank) is another time that I win back my adult life. Hello responsibility. Hello manhood. Goodbye financial phobia. Goodbye economic slavery.
And then, know what else? Yesterday morning was my first time back into a gym. That's right--I'm getting rid of this insane gut. I'm fatter now than I've EVER been and I'm just not having it anymore. My friend The Grim Jester said that he understood that I was depressed but...and then he pointed to my belly (that hairy, buff little bastard). My poor belly. It's no Zelnorm commercial anymore--it's a pregnancy.
So I've got a six-week program of serious gym work. I got it from April's Muscle & Fitness, which has menus and which exact exercises to perform.
It's ON.
1 comment:
Eliel Mamousette said...
The important thing about making a spreadsheet is realizing that you took a long time to get into this much debt, and it will not go away over night.
Trust me, I speak from experience here.
The good news is, having a spreadsheet is, as you've already started to feel, a totem to hold on to when you're feeling like it's all too much: you made a plan, you did the adult thing and you can keep doing it.
Good luck with that.
PS: I hope to hear from you before our kids are off to college....
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