Debt Free!

Oh joy of joyness, today I have hit a landmark in the fact that I am now officially debt free! Yes, this was one of those big decisions I'd decided to take a week or 2 ago and I've actually made it happen rather than just ramble on about it insanely the result of which usually just ends up as another caput idea.

So, I have now paid off the car completely, and got rid of all of my student loans - all gone! Not a penny do I owe on any form of loan or hire purchase agreement, and boy does it feel good. No more scrabbling around every month for car payments and paying back my dues for my education, it's as if a whole weight has been lifted from my shoulders and fluttered away on the breeze like the cash laden burden it was. I'm well chuffed as you can probably imagine :)

In order to accomplish such a feat of debt defying insanity we pop to the bank this morning where I have to arrange a CHAPS payment for the car, and after providing umpteen bits of information and filling out a form almost as long as a brand new toilet roll the payment is all arranged and the direct debit cancelled! Yay! So to celebrate we head over to home base to pick up some more flowers for the garden. I've taken a particular shine to some Primula vialii that they had so we got some of those along with some other herbaceous perennials which will hopefully come back year after year (provided I remember not to dig them up). We also got some wire mesh to tack along the bottom of our garden gate to make it puppy proof.

Back home and I set about preparing the flower bed for the new plants. We've had this monstrous green thing growing in there since Phil moved in, and whilst fills a blank space it's actually not that interesting and swamps everything. So I dug it up and weeded the whole bed and turned the soil over. It took ages but after I'd done we stop for a bite to eat and then the planting started. Phil helped me arrange where each of the new plants should go and then I set about putting them in the ground. In between all of this I also make 2 phone calls to the student loans people to pay off my final balances which felt mighty good to say the least :)

So after all that excitement the rest of the day seems to be pretty hum drum with just a quick outing to tesco to pick up a few bits for dinner after Phil has had a kip. It also looks like my puffer fish gave birth to something last night, and from my limited knowledge of fish anatomy I'd say it was part of his gut. It appears he's been eating gravel for some unknown reason and since he's now given birth to a small quarry's worth of stone he's also buggered up his swim bladder because he can't stay at the bottom of the tank anymore, just keeps floating to the top. I guess it's safe to say then he won't be with us for much longer, but there really is little I can do to help him.

Posted by Abi on the June 16, 2006 9:36 PM