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Some bits of good news and some meh

February 25th, 2013 at 05:35 am

The main "meh" is just that my weight drifted back up over 130 at my weigh-in tonight. So, back to calorie counting for me until I get back down. It's a bummer because we're coming up on the birthday month in my family, and we love to eat and drink to celebrate, so it's going to be difficult. I'll just try to be very good on non-festive days.

Also, although I'm looking forward to everything coming up, the next few weeks are going to be spendy, spendy, spendy, with my personal spending money taking the brunt. Since I still owe back into the checking account for my website hosting, I feel behind all the time, but with all the events coming up, it may be a while before I pay off that debt to ourselves. Just these next two weeks I have:
March 2: buy bday present for friend's son (5th bday)
March 2: buy delivery food and booze for my birthday celebration
March 4: buying brunch on my day off to celebrate my and AS's bdays
March 9: buy pizza & treats for AA's 3rd bday party (luckily we only have a handful of guests)
March 10: buy bday present for AA's friend's 3rd bday party

It's like the dieting; I'm going to have to be REALLY stingy on all other spending fronts so I can stretch my money as far as possible.

On the good front:

Apple fixed our laptop -- for free! It took over an hour, and I don't think we're on a warranty of any kind. The only things they suggested to improve performance were a new battery and new operating system. About $200 total. Since we have $975 of expected future money designated for the repairs, that leaves quite a bit we can roll toward debt instead when we get it!

To that end, I decided to send some money to Sallie Mae even though they haven't posted the Feb. 1 payment. My reasoning is that the problem with the check getting cut from Direct Loan and routed through the federal government shouldn't be an issue if I make a payment directly to Sallie Mae. I was going to wait until that other payment posted but I just couldn't stand it.

I sent $675 tonight; $375 was bonus money from last year we'd been saving for a tax preparer until we decided we didn't need it, and $300 was credit card rewards we were going to use for an immigration lawyer until we decided to put that off as well.

Supposedly this should hit in 2 to 4 days, but I'll be checking daily until it does!

One potentially great thing about the loan being transferred to Sallie Mae: They let me choose which loan I wanted to put it to! Different amounts in the total have different interest rates depending on the going rate when we borrowed that portion. I picked the highest interest debt, of course. If my payment does indeed go toward that principal, this will be so satisfying, paying down those higher interest portions and saving a few more bucks in interest! (I don't know what DL did with the extra payments; I assumed they distributed them equally, but never kept track.)

2 Responses to “Some bits of good news and some meh”

  1. My English Castle Says:
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    Blame February for the weight. Good job on the laptop repair.

  2. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    What good news about the laptop!

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