It's February!

Hello and Happy February! Everyone always talks about how long January seems... but I'm not really feeling that at all. I guess it's because I feel like my life is spent running around like a crazy person. Ha!

Debt Paid off as of 2.2.19: $702.91

Total Debt with the House: $128,277.45
Total Debt without House: $76,632.09

I truly wish we could have done better than that. However, some unforeseen things came up and we had to roll with what life handed us. I sent out a stack of bills the other day. Eight total.... FIVE of those were medical bills for Carson. One was a medical bill for me. The other two were living expenses. So, 6 of the 8 were medical. I am totally fine letting the consumer debt wait to take care of the medical bills. That is one thing I will not let sit. Why? I don't know. I know there isn't any interest on them unless you let them go for a LONG time but I don't want to do that. With the amount of medical bills that will continue to come in for Carson, it would be stupid for me to just let them pile up.

Also, my hours were cut at Hy Vee at the beginning of the year which hurt us pretty badly on the debt snowball. That situation has been remedied though and all will continue as normal. Yay!

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Other Life Things:

Meh. My foot is still problematic, however, surgery is scheduled for this Thursday 2.7.19 at 11:30am! I cannot even begin to describe how happy I am that this is finally happening. Since I'm working on year two of this ridiculous pain; I am ready for it to be fixed. I will be in a boot for 4 weeks after surgery. I will be able to walk, but will need to take it easy. I'll have two incisions, one in my foot and one in my calf. Then hopefully the weather will start getting nicer, my foot will be better, and I can finally take the boys outside for walks again! Man do I miss getting out and moving around without hurting or needing to take a break.

The boys are doing fine. Carson did get diagnosed with strep last week but the antibiotics kicked in quick. That and the fact that my son never acts sick means he really wasn't "down" for long. Dean is still doing great with the tubes and his therapy is going swimmingly!

Other than that, we're just trucking along. I haven't been taking many pictures (shame on me) so sorry the past couple of posts have been a bit blah. Thanks for sticking with me though!

Half Marathons & Dreams

Last night I had a dream that I was running a half marathon.
You know how in dreams when you run, it is ridiculously slow and you cannot seem to will yourself to go faster even though you know you can?
It wasn't one of those. It was a genuine running dream which was magical.
The last half marathon I did was on April 6, 2013. The Lincoln Presidential Half Marathon here in Springfield, IL. I run this race because it is close to home and also because the medal is a giant penny.

April 2013

April 2012

I have two of those now and plan on increasing that collection. I'd love to have 10 of them. I don't know why I picked that number.... I just want 10. 

Then of course I have this Half Marathon medal:

Best Race and Best Medal EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since I am actually a child (mentally) everything Disney is always going to be the greatest thing in the world to me. I had more fun at Disney World when I was 26 then when I was 15. Just saying. I was like a little kid. I got my picture taken with Disney characters and was giddy about it. I am not ashamed to admit that I still find true heartfelt joy in the little things. Like seeing Stitch walk around Disney World. And then me screaming for dad to bring the camera while I go get in line behind the 5 year olds. I have no shame people. 

Anyway, back to this dream.....

I was dreaming that I was running the Disney Race again with my friend Anna, with whom I have run races before and is my perfect pacer, and we were having a blast. The funny thing about dreams is anything can happen. The course of this race was WEIRD. I have no idea where it was but we were running on bike paths, streets, bridges, railroad tracks, through big building, etc. What kept throwing me off was that Anna was somehow 3 miles short of what we had actually run. My Garmin said we had run 8 miles and Anna's said she had only done 5. I told her that she needed to go do a 3 mile loop to catch up and I'd meet her again. (Funny right????) So, while she was doing her 3 miles to catch up, I went into a house where my family and friends were and had a nice little chat with everyone. I also played some trivia games (random) and then when Anna got back we kept on going. When we got to mile 12 we had the 1.1 miles left and the end of the race was some kind of obstacle course!! Like, Wipeout style. It was hilarious. We were jumping over things, running down stairs, carrying eggs and trying not to break them (I know, I need help) and when we finished the race we got these gorgeous, bejeweled medals and were escorted to a finishers area where there was a HUGE breakfast waiting with Mimosas and every breakfast food you could possibly imagine. 

The funniest part about that? Out of all that dream food you know what I got? A BOWL OF PLAIN OATMEAL. I am very upset with my dream self for not indulging on the bacon, biscuits and gravy, cold meats, fruits, veggies, etc. My dream self ate stupid, plain oatmeal. At least I did have a mimosa... 

And now that the dream is over.... all I can think about.... 

..... is running.