An Accomplishment.

It’s the first day of February and as January comes to a close I’m not sure weather to be happy or sad.  I hoped to accomplish more in January, I feel like I didn’t do much, but when I actually sit down and think about the month, I did a decently good job.  I posted to this blog more than I thought I would.  I downloaded Lightroom and started editing some older photos.  I hung out with a good handful of friends, more than once.  My husband and I bought a bed!  And to top it off, I checked my credit score on Friday, and I’m actually in “Fair Credit”, which is amazing.  I spoke about this a bit before, but when I was 18, I moved out of my parents house, I ran away from my Uncle.  In doing so, I destroyed my credit.  Over 4 years of living on my own when I was not financially capable, destroyed my credit.  But I never blamed him, I could have.  If he would have never did what he did, I would have lived at home with my parents until I was actually ready to move out.  If he would have stopped sooner, maybe I would have felt comfortable at home.  But, I didn’t have to run, there are probably many ways I could have handled the situation, but when a situation like that arises, you don’t always make the best choice.  All I knew was I needed to get away from a threat.

I killed my credit so bad that I couldn’t even open a bank account on my own, no one trusted me with money.  In order to open a bank account, my husband; then boyfriend, had to open an account with me.  He didn’t have bad credit, just didn’t have much of a credit history.  I worked hard for 5 years, paying off debt as I could and if it wasn’t for my husband, I wouldn’t be where I am today.  It was because of him that my name was put on his credit card, that my name was put on a loan for a vehicle, all of which helped build my credit back up.

It’s been even more important to me to get my credit to a good score because we are hoping to buy a house this year.  And as of Friday, my credit score number would be FHA acceptable.  Now, I still have one small thing to pay off, which I’m doing tomorrow, but I made it.  It is an amazing feeling of accomplishment, and I wanted to share it here, because this could be part of someone’s struggle after going through something like I went through.  Honestly, my husband was my saving grace, I wouldn’t be where I am today without him.  And although someone going through a similar thing, may not have that, please don’t give up.  Keep fighting, keep pushing, keep taking one baby step after another and you will get there.  I know it is hard to stay positive, I still struggle with staying positive also but it’s so worth it.

I have a lot of catching up to do, from not being on here in such a while, so you’ll see more posts from me today.

Follow through.

In an earlier post I mentioned that I wanted to pick my hobbies back up in 2015.  Not only have I been posting to this blog every day, yesterday I actually posted twice, I bought my self a new computer.  Last month my boss was kind enough to give everyone at work a Christmas bonus.  I work for a small company and for the time being, he has the capability of doing something that generous.  I also collected a little more money during the Christmas festivities that I was able to purchase a brand new laptop.  I haven’t had a laptop in a few years, and when I first started the blog, I was posting at work during my lunches.  I know that I won’t always have the opportunity to do a post every day during my lunch so I decided that I would go ahead and get my self a computer.  One of the other hobbies that I mentioned I wanted to pick back up was my photography.  And I need to be able to edit the photos I took, so I figured a new computer would come in handy for that as well.

So of course I have been feeling good today, got my brand new laptop that I get to play around with and I decide, I should buy Photoshop Lightroom to get my self all prepared for when I start taking photos.  Not only was it almost impossible to find, I actually had to google the stand alone version, since adobe wants you to subscribe to their cloud service now, and I would just prefer to have a stand alone copy of Lightroom and noy pay a monthly fee to their cloud server.  Finally after I found it I realize that the full version is 150.00.  This whole time I thought it was only 80, but I had been looking at the upgrade version.  I have never had anything other than trials of Lightroom.  So now I’m kind of bummed that it is so expensive and I’m not sure if I can afford it right now.  I mean, I can afford it, but do I want the money to go to that at this moment.?

So as I’m sitting here contemplating purchasing a photo editor that is really awesome, to continue on with my hobbies for this year, I decided to get my post in for the day.

I’m wondering if I should start writing my book again.  I just don’t think my creativity is up to that challenge yet.  There is nothing more frustrating than sitting in front of a blank word screen on your computer and not knowing what to type.  What do you guys do to help inspire creativity?

On a completely different note, today is the start of my “birthweek”, something everyone in my family celebrates, the week of your birthday.  It’s really nice, instead of getting just one day, you get the whole week.  Which is nice since my birthday falls on a weekday and I’ll be working this year on my birthday.  Last year I took the whole week off because Elizabeth came into town to celebrate with me.  No vacation this year for my birthday, so we are going out to dinner tonight and my husband is doing laundry for me.  Or at least he was until he started watching football.  I’m sure there is a dry load of laundry just sitting in the dryer at the moment.

Does anyone else celebrate your whole birthweek?  And what are some things you like to do on your birthday?

Maybe I can convince myself to buy Lightroom for my birthday.  I have a little extra cash left over from Christmas that I can put towards it.  I’ll let you know what happens.