Day 8: The Wheels Start Turning

With yesterday's bit of good news, my mind wheels have started turning. First, worst case scenarios are crossing my mind. My whole job is based on going through some retraining before I can restart but it was waiting for one of these training classes that delayed me so much back in January. What if they only do them twice a year and I am screwed until September or something? That would be bad.

I am trying not to dwell on such long shots and instead think about what this news could mean to the next year of my life. If I can start getting paid big boy money then I should, hypothetically, be able to pay for a new car and maybe, pay my way totally out of debt. If I can get the settlement from the credit card company, I would be paying something like $450 a month for a year to settle my debt and consider it gone. Of course, I can't pay the car payment and the settlement at the same time. I would have to choose the car payment first, allowing the regular $150 a month to continue for the credit card. Of course, a car might take two years to pay off before I could even think about the settlement. Hmmm, this requires more thinking. I had thought that if I were stuck with my parents for one more year, I could institute a healthy living plan for that year as well. But if I am looking at a minimum three years to freedom, I am looking at utter despair.

I need to sit down and think all this out with some calculations. Then I'll work on my health plan. Talking to Aubrey on Friday led me back to thinking I need to work diet sodas into my strategy again, if only to drastically reduce my calorie count. If you've read my food blog portion, you'll know I spend most of my calories on Dr. Pepper.

Food since last time: My parents brought home two hot dogs with mustard and some fries for me. I ate that with 1/2 a liter of Dr. Pepper. This morning, I've had four soft batch cookies, a raw weiner and the other 1/2 liter of Dr. Pepper.

Pop Culture: Yesterday as a full day of lazy pop culture consumption. More Infinity Gauntlet, Black Hammer #9, the first 8 chapters of The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak, the Arrow season finale and the Land that Time Forgot on MST3k. Yes, quite the good day.