Thank God That's Over

The working week, I mean. I had a shit afternoon and I was ready to snap. I won't go into it all cos it'll just make me feel bad, but I'm mos definitely happy to be at home in my own space again.

I emailed James some of the photos I posted to show him how good the zoom is etc. I think he's still cranky that I bought the camera. *sigh* We needed a new camera, and ours is a digital camera that you can also do videos with. He wanted a video camera that also takes stills. I'm yet to figure out why he wanted a video camera - there honestly hasn't been times when we've thought "damn, wish we had a video camera to capture that on". I just don't get it. But, I should've waited an extra day and talked to him first before I bought it. But shit happens, its over and done with now, and he'll just have to get over it sooner or later.

Still, we ended the phone conversation crappily, so I guess I'm a bit down about that too. I just wish he was home. Flies back on Tuesday. 4 sleeps to go...

Today I've decided to do something positive for myself and our finances by declaring war on my car loan. I currently have $16,500 left to pay off. So, every spare cent I have will go towards extra payments on that. I've bought one of those money boxes that can only be opened by a can opener, so all my change will go into that. Once its full, I'll put it into my loan. And I get paid fortnightly, so at every pay, if I'e got any money leftover from the last pay, I'll transfer that across into the loan. I'm not sure if it'll make a lot of difference, but its worth a shot. The more debt I pay now, the less we'll have to pay later.

We were expecting to receive an offer on our old house today, but we won't get it until Wednesday now. The people interested have been advised by their bank to not make an offer until Wednesday in case interest rates come down between now and then. If interest rates do come down and end up enabling them to offer more, then its all good, but we're impatient and want to know what kind of ball park range they're thinking. We should make at least $35k out of the sale, which $16,500 was going to pay out my car loan, and the rest was going to go on our mortgage (hence me wanting to pay the car loan off - means we can take more off the mortgage in the long run).

I'm going shopping with my MIL tomorrow - going to Cheap As Chips to get a few stationery items (my little niece and nephew love colouring and painting and drawing etc, so I'm going to make them up little art kits for their birthdays this year - getting supplies for that), and also might end up buying something to wear for my SFIL's birthday party which is next weekend. Hopefully I can find something I like and isn't too expensive. Probably not.

I'm stuffed. Absolutely stuffed. I'm going to either crawl off to the couch and curl up there, or silently haunt the Simple Savings forums. Probably a mix of both.