Welp...

A little good happened! Went out to eat with mom and my brother, and she decided to dump money on us! I'd been kinda expecting her to offer to pay for the car work (New AC in the car), and ALSO was planning to turn it down- I can actually afford it, currently.

But yeah, way more than that. Not... You know, financial independence or anything like that, but damn, I'll be clean out of debt and ahead of the game for the first time in a LONG time.

So that happened. O.o