Listening To Classical Music and Feeling Mature

Today was nothing like I expected.

LeeAnn had a family emergency so we rescheduled my hair for tomorrow morning (fine by me, after all shit happens... then we die), I ended up going to Wal Mart and almost completely finished my Christmas shopping (go me!), now I only have a couple things to pick up.

After I got home from the store I called Renee to let her know I was getting my hair done tomorrow instead of today and wanted to know when she wanted to run errands. Turns out this worked out great because the heating element in her oven went out last night and we needed to race to this appliance place on 12th that said they might have one in but needed to see it to be sure and they closed at noon (it was only eleven so I guess it wasn't that epic... But it could have been.), made it there, got the element and went back to her house to make sure it worked. Got it installed, her husband made cookies, then we (Renee, myself, Drea {Renee's daughter}, and Mia {Drea's daughter}) hopped in the truck and went to run errands.

We went to the Chase at Fred Meyer, then went over to the Target on Center, and then went to Kohl's at Salem Center... I am not a big fan of the mall to begin with but the Marion Parkade was FULL of idiots... I thought for sure we were gonna die. Drea just needed to run in there real quick so I dropped her off at the Sky Bridge and went and parked on the opposite side of the parkade until she texted that she was done.

Mia (who is three) was being a butt after the first stop, so by the time we left the mall she was getting really cranky. I said to her it sounded like someone was getting tired. She responded "No LiLi, I not tired. I don't wanna go to bed." I told her that no one said she had to. Eventually she said okay.
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Remembered I had to do some research for my dad, I am going to try and pop over there tomorrow after my hair appointment. And now my laundry needs to be folded... Please enjoy the music while you hold..............................................................................................................................
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I lied, well my laundry did. It needs another twenty minutes. Damn towels.

I was sitting here doing my bills (ugh...) and I realized that two, TWO more creditors of ours will be paid off in January. Then I thought about the fact that that extra couple hundred dollars a month will help us pay off another big ass bill (that isn't technically ours, but if we don't pay it it will bite us in the ass... even longer story...) with in six or seven months! Once that's paid we would be able to pay off our two remaining balances in rapid fire succession. As all this is flying through my brain like lightning I almost started to cry with the realization that by this time next year we could have ALL of our debt paid off (except maybe little balances on the credit cards...) and we would be able to start seriously saving money for a house. It's just crazy... I mean that is one of our biggest goals (isn't it everyone's?) to pay off all our debt and get a house. But to think that it can be attainable in just a couple years (I'd like to save a nice fat down payment saved up), is just amazing to me.

Laundry should be done now, and I need to go do other stuff.

Pasta Linguine!