You can't have everything, where would you put it?

[ClingingToHope]

Worked a high school football game last night. Didn't spend any money for the day and made the extra $45. That's good.

Looked at my accounts in detail yesterday. IF, and that's a big IF, I get the $11k settlement from STBXW then I'll be able to restructure a loan and pay off:

* The medical bill from the tooth implant last December.
* The legal bills from the D.
* The personal loan to pay the L to defend me in the D.
* The Discover Card bill in full.
* My auto loan in full.

That's $500 a month in payments that will disappear and my payments on the restructured loan will stay the same.

If all of that happens then all of this extra stuff I'm doing can go towards saving and investing in my kid's college accounts and having the confidence that when I do find someone I won't just be digging myself a deeper hole again.

Woke up with nothing to do in the morning and did laundry, dishes, a little cleaning. I'm collecting boxes for the move next month. I sent STBXW an email asking about D11's theater audition next Friday (it's my weekend) and telling her I signed D11 up for a babysitting class over two nights in November. D11 wants to start earning her own money. We've had several talks about if she saves and invests 10 percent of everything she earns then she will be able to afford those houses she loves to look at at a much younger age than I will be able to (I haven't given up hope).

I told her that I didn't learn that lesson until I was in my 20s and then we as a couple never learned how to follow through on the plan.

I'm going golfing in an hour and then have a variety of things I could do tonight so it's going to be an OK day. Tomorrow, I'll hit church, go with a friend to help him deliver a generator and then I'm covering an editing shift at night.

Downer, stepped funny on my foot and the toe that has been bothering me since February is hurting again. I don't think there's any way to avoid seeing a doctor about it. I have to work the Chicago Marathon in two weeks and I need to get it fixed after. That'll likely mean no basketball this winter, but I can't keep hobbling around on this toe forever.