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****Long whiny, moaning, vent ahead***

I been feeling very frustrated the last couple of months, partially due to my job and partially due to the constant nagging feeling that if my fiance and I lived somewhere else (inparticularly Tampa, FL) we would be doing a lot better than we are now. As explained in my first post both of us are living in a country that is not our homeland. He is Puerto Rican and I hail from the deepest, darkest Africa ( in otherwords Zimbabwe). English is my first language, and he speaks Spanish, Italian and English fluently. We live in Holland.
As neither of us speak the language, this limits our job and education possibilities drastically.

We had a plan in place, but that was thrown up in the air several weeks ago when we found out that my fiance's job was no longer secure. If he needs to find a new job, it will delay the plan. This makes me want to just up sticks and move yesterday! But we both know that is not a solution to the situation and that it is not financially viable at the moment.

Ever feel like the rest of the world is running far off ahead and leaving you behind? That's how this makes me feel, although I know it is just the frustrations coming out. After all, what goes down must eventually go up....if you wait long enough.

So in the meantime, I am trying to focus on an immediate goal, to reduce the amount of stress eating I have been doing and to eat healthier in general. I do not need my unhealthy habits to place me in an early grave. I find if I focus on the day to day achievements, but at the same time keep placing them in the overall picture of the long term, it helps.

Well we have made some decent progress on our CC debt, however we are still paying the minimum on my student loan. The updated figures are as follows:

Credit card debt: 2,110.69 EUR (-1,912.84 EUR)
Student Loan: 9,041.00 EUR (- 203.72 EUR)
Total debt: 11,151.69 EUR (- 2,116.56 EUR)

Looking at the total amount of debt reduction I am quite pleased with our progress. I believe we are well on track to reduce our CC debt to zero by the end of the year, the trick will be keeping it there.