I was just whining the other day about how, every time there is some unexpected income, an unexpected expense springs up to absorb it. And that perhaps I should try really hard to think of it the other way around.

Well, today when I got home, I received an envelope from my student loan company, ACS.

Letters from the student loan office are *never* good news.

So, with much trepidation, I opened it up and read:

The enclosed check is a reimbursement for overpayment of your student loan.

So, not only did the enclosed check represent a nice little amount (about 1.5 payments, actually) this means that my student loan is paid off entirely. And this was completely unexpected. So I’ll have an extra $X every month that I was not planning on.

Pretty nifty.