June 03, 2003

Color me excited

In paying my bills today, I discovered that with this check, I am done paying the Perkins Loan for my Masters. It wasn't a big loan, but I just love that feeling of paying off debt. Especially for my educational loans, because when I first started paying them off, it seemed like I would never finish - that I'd be this little old lady paying a little bit each month for a degree that I'd earned for a job that I'd retired from 20 years earlier. Things seem so much more melodramatic when they're unfamiliar.

But now it's so rote to pay bills, it just becomes a big surprise to discover that one of them is paid off. Two loans down, one to go. Just 50 gazillion dollars left.

Posted by Shokufeh at June 3, 2003 03:50 PM
Comments

Congratulations, Shokufeh! I wish you luck in paying off your last one.

Posted by: lacey at June 4, 2003 09:38 AM

Yay! I wish I were done with my loans!

Posted by: Julia at June 4, 2003 12:58 PM

Thanks. Me too. But, eventually, we'll be done. Hopefully before it's time to pay for our kids' education :)

Posted by: shokufeh at June 6, 2003 09:31 AM

Dear Shokufeh,

I wish I could have that feeling... Unfortunately, my loans are new.... and this whole thing is a new experience for me. I am glad that there is light at the end of the tunnel... you have pointed that out to me... but the hope you have given only keeps me going for a little while... because you are you and i am i.... ok, is this just as confusing as all my other comments.... i just love this.. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

i love this!!

roya

Posted by: ROYA at June 9, 2003 10:26 PM

Yes, I'm me and you're you. But I was thinking just the other day that even though I was the responsible, boring one when we were growing up, you're now the one who's been with the same company for years and owns real estate. I'm the one who has been through five jobs in a few years, and continues to rent. So now you're the responsible one. But not boring.

Posted by: shokufeh at June 10, 2003 09:15 AM

wow, i didn't know you were the responsible boring one? i just thought you thought i was a geek because i hung out with pejman....

you were the cool one and i was secretly jealous... and never boring..

by the way, you are so valuable that you can just jump from job to job -- VERY IMPRESSIVE.. Especially in this economy!! You Go Girl!!

Posted by: roya at June 10, 2003 10:15 PM