Things with our property we rent out are good. We had a scare after my last post as our tenants had broken up and there was uncertainty about what they were going to do. They've since worked through the break up and seem to be doing wonderfully. As for the financial aspect of being a landlord, it's starting to level out. With Christmas thrown into the fiasco and spending smartly and considerably less, I'm finally leveling out.
I did two weeks of travel for work in November that left me super exhausted. It didn't help that the first conference stressed me out so bad that I ended up with an extremely painful muscle spasm in my neck the second day into a 4.5 day conference. We were in an amazing location and hotel and I didn't enjoy a minute of it. Thankfully, I got 36 hours at home before the next conference and was able to medicate up to get the spasm to release a bit. Trip #2 was in a location I had never been and I had a great time. I spent the down time hanging out by myself and enjoying the location and all it offered.
We don't normally do big vacations with the kidlets. Long weekends mostly. Last year we went to the Smokey Mountains for the better part of a week during fall break in October. This year, we decided the kids were old enough to do Disney. We are going during Spring break for the entire week. The best part is that Soldier has been saving up some and because we are a military family, the discounts are amazing and ones we are taking full advantage of. Our tax return should also be decent sized since we had a lot of repairs last year and we get those back 100%. I wasn't very excited before about going and was dragging my feet about doing any research but am now really looking forward to it.
What else....gosh, nothing that exciting really. I contemplated going back to school and send requests to a few schools known for the program I was interested in for more info and almost immediately they started harassing me with phone calls and emails. And none sent me more information on the program so I could choose wisely. I told them all 'no thank you' and have put the thought of school on the back burner. I need to do something because I've got $13k in student loans and one year into an Associates. I think I need to sit down with an actual career counselor to get better direction. Because at 38, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
