The last several days have been so busy! Sunday my hubby and I took a drive out to Broomfield, 2 hours away, to see my daughter, Cassie, and her fiance, Drew. Bonus: we got to meet her future in-laws. I was very nervous, would I embarrass my daughter in front of her future family? Would I come across as slovenly and fat? Can you tell my self image need work?
Well, when we arrived everyone made sure we felt comfortable. I joined in the conversation, took a tour of the house and saw where my daughter sleeps. I always feel more comfortable having a visual image of where she sleeps. I also got a tour of Becky's, the soon to be mother in law, craft room. The very organized craft room. This is where she makes the professional crafts, at least they look so professionally made that they could be sold in stores! And organized, she has everything put away and labelled! Something I can only aspire to be. Becky comes across as being all put together. As much as I like her, I also find her intimidating. And I have to admit, I am jealous. She has a close relationship with Cassie and they all live in the same house peacefully. Something Cassie and I never managed to do.
The family took us out to lunch and we had great conversations. Hubby told lots of stories and we all laughed. When we were done, we headed back to the house and visited a little more before we left to go home. The drive was pleasant and the company of my hubby wonderful. The dogs greeted us joyously when we arrived home.
That very night I started crocheting a black cowl scarf for Drew and a lilac cowl scarf for Cassie. Both expressed interest in the florescent yellow/green cowl scarf I was making for her sister, Sarah. So of course I started crocheting my fingers off. I am over halfway done with each of them. The black one for Drew I can only work on during the day. Once it starts getting dusk out, the stitches are too hard to see. That's when I start working on Cassie's. Seems to be efficient.
So I spent all day Monday crocheting, from sun up to sun down and then some. Tuesday was a different matter, I spent half the day crocheting but then had to organize all our bills and debts, credit reports and accounts information to get ready to see the Consumer Credit Counselling Services today at 930pm. We have about $15,000 in debt that we just don't know how to pay. So we met with CCCS and went over our options. And since we can't come up with $700 extra each month for the next 3 years, our only option is going to be to file for bankruptcy. They gave us a list of bankruptcy attorneys and I had the joyful job of calling them and finding out fees. Apparently the attorneys can charge whatever they want for a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, their prices ranged from $975 to over $1500. Filing fee is the same across the board, $335. The attorney who charges $975 is also one of the ones recommended by CCCS so I talked to them as set up an appt for next Wednesday at 930am. I have everything we need to fill out the paperwork, just need to come up with the funds. The refinance of the house should be able to help with that. We are just waiting for hubby to get his social security card or DD214 to come in. Then we will be set to do that too! It will give us the money we need to pay the attorney.
Tomorrow will be another day dedicated to crocheting my fingers to the bone. If I remember, I will walk on the treadmill during Dr Phil. Recent weigh in at 200 pounds.
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