Today was an exhilarating day! I got up this morning in time to get dressed and run out, scrap off the car very quickly, and drive extremely slowly in the Saturn to Walgreen's. I was meeting a lady to buy her Ninja/Magic Bullet blender system at 9am. I get there a couple of minutes after. I turn on my cell data and message her that I'm not driving the red bug, Kiggy. She messages me that her husband is coming and he is in a brown car. So I tell her I'm waiting inside of Walgreen's and I wait for her husband. He's about 15 minutes late and kind of in a brown SUV, but I see him and he is just sitting in the parking lot, so I yell out, at you here about the Ninja? He says yes, so I take the $15 dollars out and ask him how it works. He tells me and I thank him and take it to my car.
I go back into Walgreen's because I saw that they had he canned hams hubby likes on sale 2 for $5, Campbell's Cream of Chicken soup for 79 cents a can, limit 4, and frozen chicken and cheese chimichangas, kind of like a burrito, for 99 cents each, limit 2. Cashews were on sale for $2.99 a good sized bag and Carmex lip stuff was 4 for $4 with a 1000 reward points, equal to $1, so that makes them 4 for $3. I got all 4, put one in my pocket and the others will be stocking stuffers for me.
I drove very slowly back home, as our newish tires aren't making any traction on this snow/ice in our neighborhood streets that are still covered with a layer of it. We don't get plowed like the main streets do, so since it's been cold, nothing has melted. The new tires that we bought this summer are really bad at traction. Next time we are going back to Sears. I don't like these Discount Tire tires at all.
I got home and prayed that Lois would call me and tell me she is picking me up. She had called last week on Thursday, thinking it was Wednesday and it was Bingo day. We laughed. But I hadn't gotten her number put in my phone, so couldn't call her. She called about 1115am, said she would pick me up in half an hour.
I had made my Thanksgiving Jello Salad with the chopped apples, celery, walnuts and pineapple in a 9x13 pan and this time, used 6 boxes of cherry jello. It was really heavy! And I have two bags of gifts to take, they were heavy too!
When Lois came, I managed to get to the car in one trip. Wasn't easy and my arm was falling off. When we got to Lynn's, she helped me carry all my stuff in. I also was carrying my purse. I remembered to get $4 to pay for both mine and Lois's Blackout Bingo pot since she had paid last month when I forgot my purse at home.
It was a festive party and we ate and laughed and talked. Then we played Bingo. We play with a cheat sheet of different types of Bingo games until all the gifts are taken. Then we open up the gifts and put them out for everyone to see. You walk around and decide what you want to steal when you win. Then we set a timer for one hour and play straight Bingo. We play fast and as soon as one or more call Bingo, they only have a minute to steal a gift and we start up again. Even if you win in the first round, you aren't guaranteed to go home with something.
I actually took home 4 prizes. I got some kitchen pot holders, oven mitts, holiday candles, lotion, fuzzy socks, and tea light candles. Then we got our Secret Santa gifts. I had asked for Christmas Tree ornaments from the Dollar Store, bandannas to wear on my head as scarves, or pig stuff for my kitchen, since we have decided to have a tomato and pig theme in there. I got all three! I got a set of pigs wearing Santa jackets as salt and pepper shakers, Christmas ornaments and 4 bandannas! I cleaned up! And there was lots of jello salad left for me to eat at home, yeah! About half the pan was left.
When I got home, I got the mail. I looked at it and there was a check from the Mortgage company for enough money to pay the car registration! And maybe some leftover to pay some down on the payday loans! I have been praying to God for a check in the mail, to help us, and He answered! Praise be to the holy one!
Well, when I called hubby, I left him a message that said I really cleaned up at Bingo and I have the car insurance money covered. Call me back! When he eventually did call me, he hadn't gotten my message yet, so I continued the joke. He asked in hushed tones how much I had won. I started to tell him we all had put $100 in the pot each for Blackout Bingo but started laughing and told him about the check. Then I told him we were putting it in the savings account until we got the registration papers with the amount we needed. Anything over that we would pay on the payday loans. He started to say he wanted to pay off a payday loan, but I cut him off and told him no. He said goodbye and hung up.
Well, I knew something was wrong when he didn't call me when he closed at 8pm. So I called him at 830pm and asked him to pick up buns for his pulled pork or he could just come home and eat it on bread. He was stiff and said he ate already and wasn't hungry, so don't worry about him. Then I knew something was wrong and knew what it was about. But I just said fine, asked him how long he was working and told him I was hoping he didn't have to work late.
When he got home, you could tell he was mad at me. I tried to apologize but he told me I didn't mean it. I said I was sorry that I didn't listen to him about the money, but he stopped me and said he didn't want to talk about it and that I wasn't really sorry. Brother! But my mood was bubbly and I was going to take any of this personally. He went upstairs to change. When he came back down, I tried again. He told me that whenever he has tried to talk to me about money for the last 5 or 6 months, I have been inflexible and rigid. I have told him the way it is and that was that. Hmm, not to my recollection. He said he was trying not to fight with me, we would just do it my way. Good. But I tried to talk to him, he just wasn't willing to talk much. I told him I had a clean comforter and we went upstairs to change the bedding into clean stuff. I had a couple of bedbug bites from the night before and the bedding was two days old.
While we were making the bed, we talked a little, I refused to be anything but bubbly. Eventually, he relaxed and we are ok. I'm still stoked, God has answered my prayers. I had faith in Him that He would help, and He did.
Tomorrow I will be doing lots of laundry and figuring out a dinner menu and grocery list. Hubby will be working late, til 9pm. But we are going to go out to dinner at Village Inn when he gets home to celebrate getting the check.
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