Can I get some stock market stability~ma for the next month or so? Even the next three weeks?
We've been in contact with the accountant who's distributing Schroedinger's Inheritance. The stock is there, we know how many shares we're getting, and he's transferring it to us on July 7. At its current value, it would do all the things I've talked about since learning this was a possibility: get us out of debt, enable us to trade in our 13-year-old Ford Contour for something more reliable and fuel-efficient, start Annabel's college fund, and give us a respectable down payment for a house in the next year or two.
Problem is, the whole market and particularly the industry this stock is in are looking awfully volatile of late. So there's a small chance, probably a minuscule one, that the bottom could drop out of the stock price between now and the point we have the power to sell it. Part of me expects that to happen--the part of me that feels like I don't deserve anything I didn't earn, and that what I "earned" was this debt, and that the universe isn't going to let me repay it with anything but my own blood, toil, sweat, and tears. But that part of me is a downer, and I'm hoping the universe will let us have this rather large measure of grace and mercy as long as we faithfully promise to be more responsible in the future.