Wow

Wow sorry I've been MIA. It's been a crazy few weeks since I got promoted. I already had to let someone go... face-to-face. That was painful. Anyway, the previous boss just left on Friday so now I'm fully 100% in charge. I'm just hoping nothing else crazy happens.

Anyways, yep I'm late on making my end-of-month update AGAIN! Maybe I should just make it a end-of-month update but around the middle of the next month lol. I'd prolly be late anyway =D But I don't think we made any progress, so don't keep your hopes up. We're having a really hard time right now. I will update everything soon! I get my first paycheck with the new $$ on Thursday.. I have no idea what I'll be making yet.

WOOOHOOOOOO!

I got a promotion! I got a raise! I'm so freaking excited and it still all feels very surreal. Anyway, I will now be making $5874 more annually! I'm very happy =D I was hoping to hit $30k salary, but they offered me $31250 and I gladly accepted lol Hopefully I can now buckle down and use this money to pay off my debt more quickly!

=D

I'm getting a promotion! I'm getting a promotion! I can't tell you how excited I am. It's not my dream job, but I'm going to get so much experience I'm freaking out! lol I get to manage 6 people directly! Of course, the people are all really dependable, so they don't need much.. but I get to do the schedules, goals, reviews, group reporting, and everything! Basically my boss and my boss's boss are "grooming me" to do great things =D And yes, I realize it benefits them because they're not having to pay for someone with a Bachelor's or the supervisory experience, but this will REALLY benefit me too! I'm freaking excited. I should be getting my offer in 3 days... but probably Monday.
And I'll be getting a raise!

Hmph...

Well I thought we were doing well. Until I remembered DH bought his new computer. *sigh* It's always something. I will not be given more than I can handle, right? I guess all I can do is look ahead and see what I can change about the situation and what else we can do to make this debt disappear. Anyways, I don't think I'm doing very well with eliminating my debt. It just seems to keep growing. I'm really upset at the moment.

On to the update:
ANB: $841.29
Dell: $1162.31
Citi: $4035.32
BoA: $4886.79
Toyota: $28399.17 (This is the same as last month, since the payment isn't even due until 8/6. I was actually ahead a little bit for the past couple of months, but this month I won't be able to keep ahead, so you'll see August's payment in August now.)

So the new total is $39324.88
Bleh! Somebody help me! lol

Progress

Wow we actually made progress on the BoA CC this month! It's amazing what can happen when you actually try to do something! lol anyways, just a brief update for this card: it's now standing at $4886.79! This card had been inching along before, so this is a nice change to actually see a dent taken out of it.

Bonus!

Woohoo! DH is getting a bonus! They sent out a little estimator and after taxes we'll prolly see $110. Not much by any means, but hey that's WAY better than nothing. And of course it's good for the employee morale =) Anyway, we had already decided that any money from his bonus was going straight to the BOA CC, and that's still what we're planning to do! Soon as we get it next week on the 24th, I'm making a payment =D

Ahhhh...

Kids are spending the night at their grandparents and it's been kinda quiet. But nice =) Everyone needs to give up their kids every once in a while!

Anyways, Chase finally updated our account and of our $900 payment, only $125.75 went to principal! lol that's just bad!!

Let's see... what else is going on... bleh. Just paid some bills. We may be taking a mini-vacation around the 25th & 26th. Planning on traveling up a little ways and checking out Silver Dollar City. We haven't been in a while (5 years actually... I was preggo at the time lol) and DH wants to take me and have a weekend away. I don't expect to spend much money besides gas and snackage. We haven't decided if we're staying overnight or not though, so that could be a little more.

At work, DH should find out soon if the company will be giving out a bonus for last quarter, hopefully we'll find out tomorrow. I'm not eligible, and this is the first time he will be, so he's anxious =). We've both only heard good things, but with the economy you never know. We've both decided already that if he does get anything, it will go straight to BoA CC! Woohoo now that's a bonus! =D

Not much going on..

Not much is going on atm, I'm waiting on tomorrow to get here so I can view our paychecks. We don't get paid till Thursday, but we can view it online on Tuesday evening. And I hope my new boss hasn't messed up my time from the holiday =) Cause if so he's gonna be paying my bills till next pay period! lol j/k

June end-of-month Update

Well let's see.. nothing major happened this past month besides the Old Navy trip so we made some progress. Here are the numbers:

ANB $879.52
Citi $4049.90
BoA $5086.49
Toyota: $28399.17

Total: $38415.08
Down $395.22 this month and down $4806.09 total!

Happy 4th!

Happy Independence Day America! We plan to possibly take the kids to go see Wall-E, and after that our neighborhood is having a block party and they're blocking off the middle road to shoot of some fireworks. Should be an interesting day... meet some of our neighbors and get some free entertainment!

And of course I'm late on the end-of-month update... So maybe I'll spend some time doing that too. Maybe =)