SO out the door at $1300.
Mac Air M3 something which had a $250 sale on it. take it.
and then I bought her the cheapest Apple watch. Yea. Remember the one that never showed but they sure took my money? Ugh.
-------------THEN IN THE CAR I GET THE HEMMMM AND HAWWING.....and I think oh hell no.
I get this: Mom I wanna tell ya something but it is good, not bad......ok, thinking I might as well drive off the road at this point.....whenever kiddo says this I tend to go brain dead instantly and wonder what bus is coming at me full speed and am I going to survive?
I said, say it, don't say it, I don't wanna know, say it fast, no don't say it LOL Honestly I wanted to bail from the car at 60 and take my chances on survival........ahhhh
She wants to go to medical school and be a Dr. and basically specialize in Pediatrics.
WTH???
I said you never said one word. She said she never thought she could do it ever but it was a dream and never to be realized kinda.... again ????.....and I said what changed? She said with her chem and bio and all be so easy but so interesting she feels she can tackle med school etc. and I am still in total brain dead mode.
I said you are going to literally lose the next 8-12 yrs of your life literally going after a medical career. She said if she has to work for the rest of her life she might as well be what she wants to be, and then early retire....lol....omgosh
THEN IT HIT ME ON COSTS. OMGosh I am checking, cheapest I can get is about $25k per semester, with Duke Medical coming in at $75K per semester. So 4 yrs med school should be around $200k with tuition only....top off living and expenses and I am screaming in the old noggin.
I don't know.....she has 2 more years on top of finishing this year to decide truly if she wants medical school but I told her she has to 'start to gear at admission requirements' for med school now, like 100 hrs voluntary health care hours that must be completed before acceptance to a med school....who knew....not me.
Plus MCATs....wow, perfect score on MCAT is 528. Like Duke requires lowest score of 520, whew, but Brody Medical as part of Carolina Uni in Greenville NC requires only a 506.
ANYWAY I told her get with her 2 counselors at WCU. The regular counselor and the major counselor in physics, chemistry and bio. Discuss it all with them and see where ya stand.
I can only say YES. I can't say NOPE. Key being if she changes her mind even in the next 2 yrs or whatever, she still graduates with a Bachelors of Science and I feel she will be fine with that in the health care field of science work she wants anyway, or she might tackle the next yrs going straight at med school? I don't know.
SO key being who knows....but also a priority now is if she really wants this Dr career then SHE must start immediately ya know. So will see what path she goes. Next 2 yrs she either does ALL SHE must do to get into a med school or ??
So I told her to move forward full speed and put in all the key values for admin to med schools and that is kinda all I can do for her, well, plus pay the bill LOL shoot me, but key being it will be all her, all her efforts, and all her planning, I can't do anything other than pay for it all and say GO GIRL.....right? hey it is what it is
OK who knows.
will see what goes down.
thank heavens I put all that other money into annuities that will be coming due and can easily cover the $250k or so of 4 yrs of med school. But also I am thrilled I know right now cause I am gonna handle finances differently immediately and arrange to cover med school costs if she goes actually that way.
brain dead, just brain dead here HAHA
---------------AND MORE!!!!!!
Last week the Chop comes and says he wants to split the land, sell this house and 2 acres, and keep our bigger 3 acre pasture and build a house there and 'set a bit'. He doesn't want to move now to coastal living. Which I could tell he didn't yet. He is only 59 and got a ways to go til 'real retirement' and he said he ain't ready to go move to the beach and do any type of full on retirement so he wants to sell this house, dump and run, and deed off 3 acres and put a smaller brand new house on that. I was like, eh, think about it. WTH right? sell this 32 yr old home, with minimum work and cut and run and get my azz into a brand new smaller home on my own land? ugh, what could go wrong on this decision?
I thought, ok I could easily build $300k so with all totaled like a very long ashphalt driveway would be required to a high tune of price but I got it to spend and then I get from kiddo.......I want to go to med school.
Yea put the brakes on my new house. Instantly. That is why I gotta do some financial stuff. See I never count my chickens if I ain't got actual chickens in my hand with my name stamped on their azz for ownership....in other words I am not counting any future money from that commerical land sale or even Rachel's house sale until it is IN my hands and I OWN it. I don't bank ever on I might get money type person LOL SO I need to make medical school work paid in full against how my fiances are sitting right now, plus keep some, hmmm, say for our retirement LOL
But I thought, omg I had an ending on Uni costs, knew I could put X amt of money into new house and just live free and easy still and travel etc. but then I get the kiddo time bomb.
OK my brain is flipping a bit. Between hubby spending a friggin' small fortune for his 'new house' with oversized garage for mega truck and rv storage and blah blah blah and then now med school costs? my brain can't keep up.
So now for me who wanted to move ahead on things, I am now putting on the brakes for a bit. Gotta wrap the head around it all.
eh, whatever, what happens, happens I guess
ok can't chat no more
chat up with you guys tomorrow for a check in on ya'll
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