Steps to freedom - update

Well, things aren’t going as planned, in that I haven’t been able to make the payments I had estimated/ save as much as I wanted…(car maintenance, medical bills)..but I still think it’s doable -it’s only been 2 months!…and at least I got both the house fund account and the “tax”…

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Niece and the car…

or, should I say, Niece and MY car??
…for clarification, I mean…
back when she finished highschool, I was paying transportation from school to home for Ale… since Niece was going to start going to the university and this posed a logistical difficulty for her and my sis (classes…

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I have to call the bank….

Every new transaction I have signed up for, I’ve asked them to include in my netbanking profile…

the loan, the “house” programmed account, the “taxes” account…you see, this way, I could just pay the loan online and/or make transfers from my checking account into the house and…

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Volcanos!! - II

Here’s the Santa Ana or Ilamatepec…it’s the highest in El Salvador, at 2,382 m (~7,814 feet)It’s last eruption was in 2005!! GULP! …you can see the Izalco in the background…

The Izalco, which is probably what most people think about when they think about a volcano. It’s…

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Volcanos!!! - I

There are 25 in El Salvador, so here are some of the most “famous” ones! LOL!

This picture was taken by a friend at the place where I used to take Ale for swim lessons…in the back, the San Salvador volcano (Quetzaltepec)

Here’s another view of that volcano, with the city…

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Look! The volcano is gone! ;)

It has been very rainy lately, and it was sooooo cloudy this morning, you could not see the volcano!…I just had to point that out to Ale…
I was translating a program on volcanos in El Salvador….I must say, I didn’t quite like it, it made it seem like my country is so barren…LOL!..it…

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woo-hoo! money!!!

I received my cheque for reimbursement of medical expenses…it’s for $133.64…that solves my bank loan payment problem….the medical expenses went in my cc and I don’t have to pay THAT until the 14th…by which time I will have not only my next salary payment, but for sure the translation…

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Can’t wait for the next payday

While my finances are in much better condition, I still haven’t gotten to the point where I can afford to live solely off my salary OR the translations…I need BOTH…(at least I’m not trying to decide WHICH debt gets paid and which one doesn’t anymore!)…so, yeah, I need to pay…

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the case of the missing files….

ok, last Friday I was working on 2 files. One I sent via email and the other one (a translation for someone in my office) was not finished, so I just filed it in my computer….
Now I cannot find any of them!!!! No problem with the one I emailed, I just have to retrieve it from the…

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$160 more!

ok, the Nat Geo gig is great, and is producing good steady $$$, but they are cheap (average $0.03 cents/word, as opposed to the usual $0.05!)….so, yesterday I had the opportunity to do another job for another customer (which was easy, too, since there were about 8 files- very short-…

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