It is property tax season and that means the reckoning I was worried about has come sooner than expected. Let me start with what I am grateful for. I am grateful that I am going to be able to get through this without putting the family into debt. However this highlights that my two year timer for the income the family generates simply not being enough is coming sooner than expected, because these bills will be due every six months and with this lawyer ghosting me it isn’t helping me create new streams of income.
Hands are for shaking, not tying as the late, great Chris Cornell once sang, and currently my hands are bound and buried in ten tons of concrete. I have a plan. A good plan, but plans are useless without action and I cannot take action due to the inaction of others.
Tic-tock there is a train a coming and I am standing on the tracks. The good news is I will be able to dodge this one, but I am getting tired of taking hits. Bill after bill after bill. Taxes, insurance, fees, and while my plan will add more bills in the form of loan repayment it will also add income and as long as column A remains larger than column B then then those new bills will be happily paid.
As of right now there is a timer, and it might be shorter than I estimated. It could be one year and not two. A hole is hard to climb out of and the poor financial decisions that my father made in his last years of life are coming home to roost. I would just like them to take a longer route and give me time to get on track.
I am tired of the hits, but it isn’t how hard you can hit it is how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward and these bills are haymakers. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to hit back. I want to get this all in order and to start being the one delivering the blows.
The problem with debt is it creates self-doubt, depression, and a whole bunch of other nasty buggery things bouncing around the brain that keep us from figuring a way out even when there is a giant spotlight shining on the obvious answer.
David Huzzard Writes 