I apologize, I had planned on publishing Lady Julie and Sir Andy’s story but felt the need to vent a little bit myself about our Freedom in Progress. I promise you can hear their story next week. 🙂 This is therapy for me and so if I didn’t post my thoughts, they would have remained bottled up and NO ONE wants that. Ha.
Hey everybody. So glad you stopped by today. Freedom Friday is when I bi-weekly let you in on how we’re doing with our pursuit of paying off debt. It’s also when many of you have e-mailed me with your story (with either “Freedom in Progress” or “Freedom Achieved” in the subject line) so I can share your story to encourage others, too.
Hi Lords and Ladies. I’m wishing it was the weekend already. I know it’s close but this has been one slammed week for us. It’s days like these when retail therapy would be reeeaaaaallllllyyyyy nice. It’s days like these when I want to sit down at a restaurant have someone take care of my and my family’s every need. It’s days like these that make a girl want to go to the spa and never leave. It’s days like these when I wish we could hire a sitter so the King and I could go out for a fancy dinner and then a movie. But on our budget, none of those things are an option.
I know we are so much closer to our goal of being debt free than we’ve ever been and maybe that’s why I feel like we’ve been under attack this week. Let me explain. I had a toothy issue over the weekend that forced me to the point of realizing that I could no longer neglect my dental health. That resulted in two dental appointments this week and one next. Luckily we have the $ to pay for them but that’s money that could have gone toward paying off debt. Granted, it’s an investment in denture prevention (which I hear are mighty pricey and unusual at my age) but still it gnaws at me (yes pun intended).
THEN I lost my phone. And since we’re landlineless, that has proved to be a bit challenging for all sorts of reasons. I went into the Verizon store and worked out a method of borrowing a friend’s phone for about a month until I’m able to get a new one on my plan. Thank goodness. I think in less than 2 hours, I’ll be back on the line so to speak and it couldn’t get here soon enough.
It’s not that I really even talk on the phone at all (I’m more of a computer person if you didn’t catch that already) BUT it’s that the King of Free ran out of gas in the truck today today and I wasn’t able to help because I was running errands with the Youngest Princess. And so I’m glad it was a nice day because I’m pretty sure he walked about 1.5 miles to get to work for an appointment. Did I mention that I drove the truck last night? And didn’t fill it up?
My. name. is. mud.
Is it the weekend yet? It’s days like these that would make most give up. BUT we’re not giving up and neither are you. Keep on slaying that debt. Put your face in the sunshine and know that this too will pass. Keep on the path laid out before you. It is well worth it. Or so I’ve been told.
Thanks for reading (and being my unpaid therapist).
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