Today was thinking day. Thinking because it is becoming the end of month and the end of the year, 2014. I turned 50 this year, I made progress in therapy, progress in attitude toward housekeeping, progress in decluttering my house. We refinanced the house and got my name on the title, too. Most of the good stuff that happened, happened in the later half of the year, it seems. Could just be the way the later half of the year just stands out to me, it happened closer so seems more important. Frankly, everything seems to have happened over the last month. Today we got in our last check refund we were expecting so off it went into the bank. We will use it to pay a month of mortgage payment, pay for the vet to extract some teeth from Cookie, our fox terrier/besenji, she is 7 years old, catch up our utilities and internet, pay other bills, pay for the first month of my therapy - I have to pay full price of $65 a session until my $800 deductible for my new insurance is met. Maybe we will use some money to have a will made as one of our new benefits is legal services so we should use it. If we don't do it now, we will do it soon. We need to see what all is involved in setting up a trust for me if hubby passes away. Anyway, something to plan for sometime this year. Or maybe we should take the check and pay 2 mortgage payments with it, then use the money we get on the third Wednesday of the month that we would normally pay the mortgage with to pay all the bills. Oh well, I will work it out tomorrow. We have plenty of bills with which to be paid.
Tomorrow I will set up our budget and plan out a menu for the next couple of weeks. I cancelled my therapy session because tomorrow it is going to continue to snow and the roads are coated in ice. I have lost my confidence in driving on ice since I stopped working several years ago and no longer were required to go out in it. So I called Steve today and left him a message and he called me back and said "Smart move.", so I have no reason to go out tomorrow. Tomorrow I plan on definitely getting up, showered, dressed in one of my new leggings, and going downstairs. And I think I will have some hot chocolate. Sounds good! But I am going to work on clearing my craft room so I can tell hubby if he needs to bring home more boxes. Can't tell him if I don't fill up what I have first.
Everybody is getting sick with the flu! My father has come down with it over Christmas and Cassie came down with a stomach flu. And on the news I heard they had to quarantine the VA nursing home and hospice because they came down with 27 cases of the flu there. Lucky for us, hubby appears to be well and I am doing great!
One of the goals hubby and I have for the new year is joining Weight Watchers as a couple. We would go to Saturday meetings. This is something we have to figure out in the budget when we can afford it. But we have decided to make exercising and eating right a priority. This includes walking the dogs on good days. Getting to a healthy weight for the whole family is a good goal. That and writing on a regular basis.
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