Today was a satisfying day. Since hubby spent the night in Denver last night, I went to sleep with my nightstand light on, wearing my night mask. And I had the tv left on with the volume turned down to make up for not hearing him next to me at night. I slept ok, for being alone. I woke up at 7am with the dogs whining to go out so I got up and went downstairs to open the door and left it open. Then I came back upstairs to go back to sleep.
I woke up at 9, feeling good and looking forward to hearing from hubby sometime during the day. I got up, got dressed and fed all the beasties. Then I got out the cowl scarf I am making for Becky, Cassie's new mother-in-law. And I finished it. It took most of the day, working on it but now her first one is done. I was made out a special yarn, kind of fluffy and thick. I couldn't use my special stitch and the same stitch count I usually use to make my cowl scarves. I had to measure using the bigger cowl scarf I made hubby for Christmas. Now this yarn with using a double crochet came out very stiff. So I am hoping it will loosen it up by washing it in the washer. I'm hoping Becky will like it.
I have started a new prayer shawl so will be working on that next. I also have the project I am working on for myself, my Fern Moss Wrap. It's been a long time since I have worked on that. Then there is the second cowl scarf that Cassie asked me to make. So I will be dividing up my time working on these three projects in the coming days.
I thought I might go out and have breakfast or go out to lunch but decided that I would rather go to a movie with hubby when he got back. I want to see Jurasic World. I have seen the other movies and have recently become a Chris Pratt fan and he is in it, so it should be good fun. And we will buy a huge, large extra extra butter popcorn. I will take home the popcorn and eat it all, then bring my bucket back to get my free refill. High caloric intake but this craving will pass. All cravings eventually do. Though I haven't weighed myself in a while, my pants are still loose and I haven't been pigging out on anything. But tomorrow I'm going to weigh myself to see where I stand. Monday I will start walking the dogs again with Rose's help. I think my ankle is healed enough that I will be sore but I can power through it.
I didn't eat dinner tonight, just wasn't hungry. I had some fruit, some grapes earlier. I ate a cup of yogurt for breakfast then had a ham and swiss sandwich for lunch. I drank two cans of Pepsi.
I have started to feed Zeke and Dylan cheerios in the morning with two different kinds of fruit then their rat chow with two different kinds of veggies in the evening. No more runny stool! And tonight when I opened the cage door, both boys came out onto the craft table. They were so cute! After church tomorrow or after the movie, I will take the little guys and we will play in the bathroom so they can run around and get in some good exercise. And give them some cheese as a treat. When I went to tuck them in for the night, I still had the scent of velveta on my fingers and Zeke was very interested. He kept tasting my finger, a little too hard. And he didn't want to let go of it. Silly boy!
Hubby finally made it home by 11pm. That means he worked 53 hours this week so the paycheck at the first of the month will be very nice! I did do our budget, added in all the new bills for next month like the payback of the payday loans and the new IRS payment and my life insurance. Yes, that's right! I found a company that will insure me without too many medical questions. So I will have $25,000 life insurance policy. It's whole life but that's ok, it will stay with me for the rest of my life. But I added up all our bills for the second half of the month and all our paycheck is gone. We have just enough extra money to see the movie tomorrow. We will be able to pay the Dentist their full payment to make up for not being able to pay them last month. We will have a little bit of more money coming in on Wednesday when I get my social security payment but we will have to stick close to the budget.
I read an article on how to get out of the "I can't afford that!" mentality. And I think that is what hubby is into right now. He is so stressed out about money and to him, it seems like we can never get ahead. He is so upset about it. And the article explained that when you are constantly saying "I can't afford that." you are controlled by your finances. Being in control of your finances is looking at money and your bills in this manner. I choose to pay these bills instead of taking all my money and having a free for all at the Hooked on Books store. And I choose to have these comforts of a home, a car, and having my student loans forgiven, so I choose to pay my mortgage, my tax bill, my insurance and gas. The situation is still the same but it's an attitude adjustment. I'm thinking of printing out the article for hubby to read.
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