A load off
Looked at the checking account, the mortgage company’s records, and my dogeared and scribbled-over loan amortization chart, and they all agree: I’ve now paid off enough principal that all we have to do from here on is make our regular mortgage payments to have the sucker paid off in December 2008, ten years from when we took out the loan. Ten years was the goal.
It took a windfall and taking out some mutual-fund money for the sake of the tax loss to do it… but I’m not kicking.
I’m terribly glad, actually. One less thing to find money for.