KEEPING THE HOUSE
Michelle wanted to know if we could stay out of the Austin bankruptcy file and pay our debts and keep the house. I wanted to try, too. We had worked too hard for too many years to just let it all go. We put our heads together. We needed to get more money — fast. We came up with several plans, none of them all that great. We were spinning our wheels, we thought, after awhile. Nothing would work. How we got in debt was one thing. We traveled a lot and it was very hard to keep up with book keeping. We lost track of what we were spending, versus what was coming in. We would borrow and borrow and never pay back. That couldn’t go on forever. Each time when we got back from being on tour we were just too exhausted to do anything. Unless you have been on the road you just don’t know. It can drain you. You spend your time racing to the next show, but then after you are still all hopped up and can’t just sit down and read the paper, like if you were working a 9 to 5 job. You ended up partying until 5 am, then crashing for awhile, then getting up and on the bus by 9am. You could sleep on the bus, but it wasn’t like getting a night’s sleep. So we got careless, too careless. That’s how we ended up filing.
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