Mortgage Statement

The mortgage statement came today. We're under $255,000! Woot!

I'm playing a little game with the mortgage. After our other debts (Amex, Visa, HELoC) are paid off (in about 2 years and 8 months), I want to pay off the mortgage in 10 years. That means I'll be 50 when it is paid off. Then I figure we can buy a second property with a 15 year mortgage and it will be paid when I'm 65 and want to retire. Do I have a good plan or what? So even though it will be awhile before I start the 10 year attack on the mortgage, I still think it will be fun to figure out what I will have to pay a month to pay it off in 10 years. So each statement, I'm going to figure it out. So at this time, if we wanted to pay off our mortgage in ten years, it would cost us $3,182.66 per month. So I'll figure this every month when the statement comes, and the payment should go down each time. Fun, huh?

Ron has been gone since Monday. He had to go to Ft. Lauderdale for work. He gets home tonight. He was supposed to be home at about 9:00 pm but missed a connecting flight in Orlando and so won't be home until about 11:30 pm. Yuck.

I hate it when he is gone. I don't do well. I can't sleep but I can certainly eat. In fact, I eat anything that isn't nailed down. Sigh. Besides that, I just plain miss him. I try to not be too big of a baby about it. I know that other women's husbands are away for much longer, to places a lot less friendly than Florida. Still, there is always this little sick ache in my heart when he is gone.

So...I'm really, REALLY glad that he will be home tonight.