Murphy on vacation
I’ve been experiencing a rare stint of everything just “going right”. Even the few things that have gone wrong, were quickly and easily resolved.
I began getting nervous last week when I got counseled for just barely failing the first exam at Mobility Officers Course. That sucked, but I noticed that he marked something incorrect that I had actually done right, and after correcting the score, I was now just barely passing. But I didn’t fail it, and that changed everything.
Then, after 6 months of trying every single month, I finally got the Career Starter Loan from USAA. That changes everything, financially. This loan will have 3rd, 4th, and 5th order effects on my situation that are all fantastic. I had gotten so used to getting turned down every month - it got to the point that each time I made the call I would think of the scene from the movie “Rudy” where he would open the envelope each month only to find that he had been rejected from admission to Notre Dame. I was coming to terms with the fact that I was never going to get the loan and would therefore have to face my worst-case financial scenario - the details of which are of no interest here. But they gave me the loan, and now my troubles are basically over. I am completely empowered, and I have no money worries anymore.
My next exam, I got a 95%. BooYAH!
I caught pneumonia last weekend, and it has basically gone away without much problem. Just have some residual congestion, but that was an inevitability.
Admin screwed up and my pay is going to be about $1300 short this paycheck. But I already went there and they fixed it - I’ll get an extra large payday on July 1. I’ll barely notice the shortage, and life is good when you can get shorted that much from your paycheck and it not affect your finances to any real degree.
I almost feel silly listing all of the small things here - they seem so insignificant when written down. But they are all these potential friction points in my life that normally would go terribly wrong… but for whatever reason they don’t. And it’s nice, for once. It’s nice for once to go through a stint where if anything can go right, it does.
And it’s my journal, so I’ll write whatever I want!
I began getting nervous last week when I got counseled for just barely failing the first exam at Mobility Officers Course. That sucked, but I noticed that he marked something incorrect that I had actually done right, and after correcting the score, I was now just barely passing. But I didn’t fail it, and that changed everything.
Then, after 6 months of trying every single month, I finally got the Career Starter Loan from USAA. That changes everything, financially. This loan will have 3rd, 4th, and 5th order effects on my situation that are all fantastic. I had gotten so used to getting turned down every month - it got to the point that each time I made the call I would think of the scene from the movie “Rudy” where he would open the envelope each month only to find that he had been rejected from admission to Notre Dame. I was coming to terms with the fact that I was never going to get the loan and would therefore have to face my worst-case financial scenario - the details of which are of no interest here. But they gave me the loan, and now my troubles are basically over. I am completely empowered, and I have no money worries anymore.
My next exam, I got a 95%. BooYAH!
I caught pneumonia last weekend, and it has basically gone away without much problem. Just have some residual congestion, but that was an inevitability.
Admin screwed up and my pay is going to be about $1300 short this paycheck. But I already went there and they fixed it - I’ll get an extra large payday on July 1. I’ll barely notice the shortage, and life is good when you can get shorted that much from your paycheck and it not affect your finances to any real degree.
I almost feel silly listing all of the small things here - they seem so insignificant when written down. But they are all these potential friction points in my life that normally would go terribly wrong… but for whatever reason they don’t. And it’s nice, for once. It’s nice for once to go through a stint where if anything can go right, it does.
And it’s my journal, so I’ll write whatever I want!