Been a while!!!

Hello! It's been a like a month, I can't believe it! On the upside, I lost 15 pounds during my hiatus. I will take an after (or partially after, still a long way to go) photo in the same white dress when I get motivated to go back upstairs! Besides eating healthy, except for the past few days, I have been working like a crazy person. I never fully appreciated how much all my friends work until I started this crazy 40+ hour a week thing! Once you add drive time it's 50+ hours a week, and then 45 hours for sleeping, leaves you around 70 hours a week to shower, clean, eat, relax, and see your friends and family. I wish I and all my friends were crazy fun multi millionaires! My house has a suspicious smell in it today. Kind of like old food. Which is weird because I took a week off the diet and have not cooked much at all. I should investigate, but I am afraid. Very afraid. So, I am sure you all are aware of all my business and financial woes, but I am not 100% sure where I left off with everything. I met with a lawyer in the past month and we discussed all my options, then I left and Brian and I were a little overwhelmed and downhearted thinking things were getting much worse before they got any better. Lawyers, am I right? Anyway, after a couple nights sleep, and a few phone calls to other people/government agencies/etc, we realized that we can do it ourselves. And even better than that, with projections based on where we are right now, we can be completely out of all debt, except for our home mortgage in 5-6 years. ALL OF IT! Which means, that when Liam is ready for college, all the money we are making except for what we need for bills and the house, will be free to help him, or help us retire, or buy a boat, WHATEVER. AND, we are already putting the plan in action! We have yet to get final approval from the IRS, but I am optimistic they will support the plan, since it involves giving them lots of money. And besides the IRS I have paid off a few bills completely this month, and made large dents in others! Take that people who think democrats want the world to hand them money and solve their problems for them. We decided against bankruptcy in favor of responsibly paying back every penny we owe people as quickly as possible, and we STILL support our left leaning compadres. Boom, Smug self satisfaction say what? WHAT!!!! Happy Sunday! I am off to grocery shop, then work! Every paycheck brings me closer to the dream that one day we will have no credit cards, no IRS debt, and no car payment or student loans. :) In fact, I think we are about 1 month away from 1 credit card being completely paid off and closed! 1 almost down, 4 to go. :) The original Picture:

And the new picture: