Sickness and such

I've been hacking up lungs and other various organs for the last 3 days, what fun! Sleep hasn't exactly come easy but it's left me a lot of time to think.

A month ago I went on a little shopping spree and as part of this promotion the store had going on I got a bunch of coupons. Spend $50, pay $25. I got a total of 5 coupons equalling a potential $250 shopping spree at the price of $125. Yay! So I spent the month saving and planning a second shopping spree for the dates valid on the coupon. So here it is, the last day to use the coupons and I've decided against going. I saved $145 (tax and lunch out) for the day, and I don't want to spend one penny of it on clothes.

Yesterday I decided that I would much rather put that money towards debt. If I was going to spend it on anything, it would be a treadmill. Turns out I don't even have to do that because a friend of mine offered to let me borrow hers. Yay! As soon as my son is finally out of the auxiliary room and into a real room most of the furniture in my room is going with him. Then I'm going to rearrange my room so that I can fit the treadmill in here. I have a thing about working out in front of my family. Besides, it's a lot more difficult to ignore a treadmill that's in the same room than one on the other side of the house.

In happy news, I'm down an entire 11 lbs. I'm happy but at the same time, I'm going to have a hard time being wowed until I get under the lowest I was, 239, after I had my son. We have a family reunion this summer and I have some work to do! Not that it's a competition but if the motivation works, why not, right? I have one cousin, she lost 60 lbs during her pregnancy. She looks fabulous! Another cousin started running in January and has lost upwards of 30 lbs already. I can't be the only 20 something cousin that comes heavier than ever. (And I've always been the heaviest of all my cousins. Both sides of the family.)

So, back to the debt, using the money I didn't go shopping with I should be able to pay off half of a medical bill I just got. $656 for the center where I had my surgery in January. They were supposed to let me know all costs upfront, however they seemed to miss the biopsy. If I'm paying off half now, I ought to be able to pay it off completely by the end of the month.

I'm waiting for another bill to come in, a $100 copay for an E.R. visit for my son. If I squeeze my budget hard enough I may be able to get that one paid off by the end of the month as well. How awesome would that be? $756 in one month? Rock on! That would be 2 entire debts to wipe off my board and then I could take on my last 2 and be done. I owe a medical imaging center $1461 and my mom $8000. In the meantime I also need to save about $1200 for said family reunion. Won't be easy but will definitely be worth it.

If I sell my truck, everything will happen that much faster. I just can't let myself end up in a position of not having a vehicle.

I'm being summoned for a snack.