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 =)

Two steps forward, and one step back

Isn't it always like that? We start making some progress, and then life gets in the way (or in our case, we sabotage ourselves)... Point being, DH and I went clothes shopping today. I was down to 1 pair of jeans and DH had 2 or 3 pairs left. So we were headed home from work and suddenly my mouth starts moving and I blabber "Hey, want to go to Old Navy and get another pair of jeans?" So off we go to Old Navy and I find 2 pairs of jeans I like but I can't find my freaking size. Why is it so hard to stock clothes so that there's not 20 size 14s left and no size 4s or 6s or 8s... Are we stocking more for the "large" now? Or did every other "normal" butt get there before me? ARGH. So I grab a pair that are a different style in my size and somehow grab a shirt instead. HUH? uh hello, you went for jeans, and you grab a shirt???... But of course I'm probably going to keep it since I'm running low on shirts that don't have holes in them. Anyways, we spent over $100 together, which isn't a lot to most people, but is a huge deal when you're trying to get out of debt.

New Networth total!

I finally found out what our house appraised for when we bought it, and according to our county data it's value is $135,600!!! Our mortgage is $122,400, so that brings us a nice jump in networth. WOOHOO! And I am in the black for the first time in a LONG time! Check it out, almost 6k in the positive! I'm grinning like the Cheshire Cat =D

Ahhh back home...

Bleh... we just got back from camping with DH's family. Yea, woopie, way to go me, right? Yeah well camping is one of my least favorite things to do. My parents used to take us camping and I hardly remember it, but if I was ANY older I'm sure I would have HATED it lol. Well anyway, we're back and I survived somehow =) But the crazy thing about going out in the woods and losing access to every kind of technology available (we were in a valley or some kind of force-field-shielded forest and even the cell phones had ZERO bars) is that I have no idea what day it is. It's weird we were only out there 2 days but good grief. All I know is that it's Sunday and I have to work tomorrow lol. I suppose it's time to look at our bills and make sure we're not close to missing any payments or anything. I love it when that I think the only logical thing to do when you get back to civilization is to hop on the computer and write a blogpost lol =)

Reality.. House Payments

Well that house payment time is sneaking up fast, exactly 2 weeks from now. Yeah, I know we have plenty of money right now, but just the idea that we're gonna be putting down $890 every month is kinda startling. Yes, I know what we got into buying a home, but still I think it's spending that amount of money for one thing... every month... for possibly 30 years. It's just sobering to me. Anyway, that's all I'm thinking about right now. Not much else going on.. plodding along with the credit cards and car payment.. same 'ol same 'ol. I guess a good thing coming in 2 weeks is that I get to update my numbers again =) Woohoo!