Time Will Tell

Well, I am eager for tomorrow to come and begin a new day.  As the night progressed and the candidates I thought stood a chance to win, even if naively, didn’t pull through – I came to the conclusion that I had to just let go for the moment.

I needed to unclench and allow myself to chuckle and giggle at some regular TV that wasn’t reporting with “spin”.  I’m not sure what the near future has in store for us as a country, or for us as individuals, but right now it’s time to celebrate that the election is over and maybe we can turn off our biased mindsets and just take a breath.

I’ve still got a lot of work to do.  I made plans seven months ago to get out of debt, and although I am closer than I was seven months ago, I have a ways to go before I can claim some independence.  One of the things I will be free from is my specific job, which has helped to tailor my budget into something unmanageable.  Well it didn’t “help” so much as it enabled… I did the screwing up all on my own.

However, seven months ago I was consistently behind one to two thousand dollars before my next paycheck even came in.  Yeah, I was negative one grand each month!  That makes a good-sized paycheck turn into a dinky little thing.  But now, if I pay my bills only, I have a surplus – and I’ve been using that to slowly pay off debt at a decent rate.  Once I am caught up on taxes and everything, I plan to get some savings going too.

I’m going to need the extra money for research and planning.  I have less than two years to get out from under this financial thumb.  Why the dead-set timeline for fiduciary freedom?  ‘Cause I’m going to run for president in 2012, that’s why!  Beware America!  2012 is all mine!