Debt Sucks

Talk about a sucky birthday. I went out geocaching with a friend early in the morning, and that was about the only good part of the entire day. I found 11 caches, and we DNF’ed 2. And then both of our GPS units died, and he forgot to bring the spare batteries.

Anyway, I got a [...]

I am now officially moved. Yay me. I still have a ton of work to do. The truck needs inspected so I can get all the furniture and other big stuff down here, and I need to find someone to help me. I’m also not entirely sure what furniture I really need anymore, and then [...]

MetEd’s final shutoff notice was in the form of actually stopping by and hanging it on my door. Naturally, I put it off, but tried calling them on Saturday and, sure enough, that number is for business hours only. This resulted in a somewhat last minute call at 0730 Monday morning (shutoff occurring at 0800 [...]

No, no, I didn’t finally get it registered and inspected. Exactly a year after I did it, It’s been featured on Art Car Central – partly because I didn’t know if it would be considered an art car, but mostly because I don’t know what to do about the work of art that she is. [...]

I’d be a liar if I tried to say 2008 was a good year for me. Or, not horrible. I left one job, took 2 months to find a new one, then got laid off at the end of the year. My debt levels went kind of like this:

Account
Starting
Current
Change
Paid Off

Capital One
-5415.1
-7725.09
-2309.99
-42.66%

Sallie Mae
-29281.79
-30271.64
-989.85
-3.38%

Sister
-650
-550
100.00
15.38%

LFCU
-5029.8
-4200.96
828.84
16.48%

AES
-2625
-2380.07
244.93
9.33%

Ellis College
-3061
-3061
0.00
0.00%

Scooter
0
-5300
-5300.00
0.00%

Totals
-46062.69
-53488.76
-7426.07
-16.12%

That Capital One [...]