My Daily Life

 Got my 2nd bid:$4120 +tax and the cost of a permit. I decided to ask the first electrician for an itemized bid do I can compare apples to apples.  I’m not really sure why there is such a big difference.  I’ve asked Lakeland electric to come do an assessment and give me a bid too, but he can’t come until next week.  So far he hasn’t given me a time yet.   No fiascos so far this week and it’s Thursday.  Got my income tax refund yesterday-$6490. IRS paid 6776, but I had to pay Turbo tax and their processing bank.  Next year I think I’ll figure out if there’s a way to bypass the bank charge.   I really want to be careful how much I spend out of this refund, but I also need to pay a few things.  We’ll see how it goes.  I need to learn how to stretch my money through the month since I only get paid at the end of the month now.  It’s enough, but sometimes I come up short. It will help to pay off some things.

 Long story short, it was well past Thanksgiving when the restoration company finished everything they had to do to the bathrooms and the clean up. My son came and put in my back door for me which I was able to get at a much less cost than originally planned. I had waited long enough to get a door of the same quality at about $700 less than the original price. So new flooring in the bathrooms and a new back door new vanities and the bathrooms completely painted, I was feeling pretty good. I finally finished painting the hallway  and got my pictures up in the living room and the hallway and was ready to move onto the kitchen before Christmas. Moving on was not to be.  New plumbing issues popped cup.  The piping under the tub and in the hallway bathroom wall was leaking.  There were cracks in the tub abs in the wall tiles around it.  The copper piping going to there areas was old and beginning to wear, so now we had more drips.  Not just trips but pourin...

 What a whirlwind this last two weeks have been.  Last week was homecoming week at EVHS, so Shylar was attending a lot of events as a sophomore nominee for Homecoming Queen of her class.  The night of the Homecoming Football game was the night of reckoning.  We all wanted her to win and I was praying her dream would come true.  The competition was stiff so I was afraid to hope for too much, but then the announcer call Shylar’s name as Homecoming Queen for the sophomores.  All of us were so happily surprised that we were jumping, screaming, and crying all at once.  I’m so happy for her.  She was beautiful in her flowing red velvet dress with a train the flowed behind her.  She looked so happy as she waved at the crowd from the back of a red truck driving her and the sophomore king for a victory lap. I cannot be prouder of all that she has accomplished this Fall.   While this was going on I was receiving calls and texts from Isabella about...

 Me time?  What is that? Even when the kids are in school I’m busy.  The older girls think their little sister is annoying and do their very best to schedule time away from her.  I pick up her girlfriend so they can play together and they spend most of their time arguing about what they are going to do. So today, I rode bikes to the park with them where there are other kids thinking it would be relaxing for me while they play.  The sun is making me so tired, I think I need a nap and can’t wait to ride back home.I wanted to dust and  clean today, but the television was messed up so I spent way too much time trying to remedy the problem. I accidentally disconnected something from the back of the cable box, but when I reconnected it, I think I may have fixed the problem. I haven’t had time to check it to make sure everything is working right, but what a waste of time that was.

 July 12, 2021 I went through with retiring on June 1st, and ever since then it’s been a roller coaster ride with many twists and turns. Absolutely nothing has gone as planned.  My 15 year old niece had been in INBH since May 22nd for threats of self harm, but was released to home on May 31st.  Her first meeting with her counselor post hospitalization was 2weeks out. I finally got to meet with the counselor and Isabella on June 28th.  I found it interesting how dishonest she is with her counselor.  Either that or she doesn’t think what’s happening in her life is significant enough to talk about, or she truely has a mentality of a 6 year old and doesn’t know how to talk about these things.  In that meeting she told the counselor she looked up to me, knew I loved  her and cared about her and all she wanted was to spend more time with me. Since then she has proven the opposite!!  She has told me in person and in text that I hate her, and I should jus...

 This might as well be my once in a while life instead of my daily life. I see the last time I wrote anything here was in January. That wasn’t my intention but that’s what it has become. I’m working hard to pay off my debt. Eventually this will result in an increase in my credit score, but most importantly a decrease in my debt. So far, I have paid off at least two loans maybe three, and I’ve reduced my outstanding credit balances too below 100%. I really never intended to have my credit balance’s so high. In fact, one of the cards I have, I got as a way of reducing the percentage of credit I had outstanding. I’m very ambivalent about retiring on June 1, even though I’ve already set the wheels in motion to do so. It feels like there’s no turning back now that I’ve set the date. I hope I’m not making a mistake financially.  Even more than that I’m going to miss my job. I’ve been working at the same hospital for nearly 40 years; it feels like I’m leaving my family, and my home. ...

 Another day with a second grader trying to make sure she is focused on her schoolwork.  She actually did pretty well today. I read  more of “The Promised Land” by President Obama this evening. His writing flows so smoothly as if he were having a conversation with his reader. I’m really enjoying the book for that reason and the fact that he’s telling his story from the heart.  I’d probably be further along in the book if I didn’t have other responsibilities.