The Weekend Update

Hi Friends!
I’m just going to update everyone on what’s going on in my life right now, as it has been turbulent at times, but good. The beginning of last week was extremely difficult for me on a personal level and I won’t go into details here, but I was very lucky and happy to be given a couple of days off (Monday and Tuesday). I took that time to go down to Indiana University and spend the night at the lovely IU Memorial Union. That night I spent some time with my friends Char and Jake, and also got to do a lot of bowling.

The next morning was pretty good for me. I spent some time reading my Bible and having quiet time with God… which is something that I haven’t allowed for too much in the past year or two. However, in the past few months since my break-up, I have regained that time with God. It was extremely refreshing to spend that time reflecting and meditating on where I’ve gone wrong, what I’ve done right, and all the in-between. Needless to say, I am feeling a lot closer to God than I have in a while and take comfort in His grace and mercy.

I got a nice surprise this week, my tax refunds were deposited into my bank account… woo hoo! I received a lot back this year and in my heart, I knew that I should use the money to pay off my credit cards (I have four total). So I took the two highest credit cards and paid them off, it felt so good! But then the unexpected happened, I looked at my bank accound and looked at my third credit card and realized there was some wiggle room for me to pay off the third credit card! Now I’m left with one credit account to pay on, and that is for my Dell computer that I bought this year. Hopefully I will have it paid off in the next month or two. So essentially, I will be free of debt, except for my deferred school loans (which I’m currently putting money aside to pay on).

So at the present time, I am evaluating my budget and making adjustments. I’m looking at putting aside money for a house and also possibly putting money away into a Roth IRA for my retirement. For the first time in my life, I finally have a hold on my finances and it feels good.

In other news, I’ve been losing weight, which is a pretty awesome thing. I’ve reduced what I’ve been eating and working out more, which seems to do the trick. I’ll have to write a blog posting about it some time.

But in a nutshell, that’s all I’ve got going on for the time being. I anticipate being busy at work with Easter coming up and also staying on top of my classes. So my apologies for the lack of blog posts, but there has just been too much going on and I will try to fill all of you in later in future blog postings.