today I had a meeting with a company who wants to partner with me to sell my software. They are sure they can sell 10 copies over the next year. I've got two already in financing right now.
Other business has been coming in and by next week I'm pretty sure I can pay up the mortgage so I'm even again.
After I came back from this meeting I told D17 how well it went and that we're going to have a good 2009 financially.
I was in my office and W knocked on the door. I told her to come in and she stood there kind of quiet and said "Congratulations on your deal" and I said "which deal?". She said "D17 told me your meeting went well". So I told her how it went, and what I intended to do to pay off our debts and taxes.
And I told her that since our house is worth about $20k less than what we owe it would be simplest if she just signed it over to me and I'll keep paying it till it has value some day.
She seemed shocked by that, and started to say "I'll have to ask my legal adviser" but stopped.
She then went on to say thank you to me for letting her have her thursday night dinner / hang out here at the house. She said she looks forward to it all week.
I just smiled at her and she then turned and left.
after she left I went to our mortgage lenders site and got the numbers we owe, and then got a listing of houses that are for sale in our area for what we owe.
I went to her 'room' as she was checking her email and asked her if she had a minute. So I sat down and said that I felt that I wasn't as appreciative of her congratulations, and I didn't say 'thank you' for it. So I said 'thank you', I appreciate it.
I also showed her the numbers I had and explained that I wasn't being unrealistic, that if we get divorced she'd end up paying me half the negative equity and I'm offering to just absorb it.
I also said that I intend to pay off as much as our debt as possible in the next few months. I said that I know she "can't be around me" but I'm not going to let her go off and be broke. I said it's not the right thing to do and I wouldn't do that to her.
So she says in kind of a neutral but slightly annoyed tone "You don't have to worry about protecting yourself, I'm not going to come after you for anything".
I said "A couple months ago you said I was trying to steal the house from you so I'm just making sure you know where things are at."
