Finances

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How appropriate, today I was gonna tackle F and I thought F...finances.

2 things.  DH and I are pouring through about 800 coins for my DGM that she collected with my grandfather.   He was killed in 1977 in a horrible accident.  So, she still has part of their collection.  All but 2 circulated.  Less than $80 face value...about 225 coins are high silver (earlier than 1965).  We will see what we can get for her, some melt,  some numismatic collector value and most face value.

Other thing on my mind is how sick both of my dogs have been.  It started when I took to a vet not my usual vet...for their ear allergies.  They received medicine for ears and a week latter my 10 yo male chi mix got very sick...cried for 4 days and we had all kinds of tests and got better in about 4 days; then our 4 yo chi female got very sick and we took her to emergency vet one night and then back to ear vet.  Ear vet was in surgery, so they told DH drop her off and get would check her after surgery.   DH back to work.  No word till afternoon.  Tech told me more tests...said after DH dropped her off she was not acting as if she was as miserable.   Called, said we could pick her up after work, get tech said possibly virus.  Asked me to bring back fecal sample.  She seemed little better overnight while we waited for results.  During afternoon Friday vet called and said she had pancreatitis!  Suggested we bring her back for admittance and iv drip!  I was angry (they did nothing for her all day thursday!) and scared...raced home...she still seemed ok.  Wow, had been quite the couple of weeks...my credit card very busy...I am really angry about how the vet handled things...need to let it process and pray about it.  I will gladly pay the expensive bills... just want my dogs to be ok...and to get a good night's rest.

D for Debt

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I realized I am a letter behind.  I will catch up Monday.
Debt is a symptom.  Maybe people go into debt because they don't know anything else.  Maybe people go into debt to avoid dealing with something.  At the basic level, debt is spending more than you make.  Or, at least choosing to pay later instead of sooner. 
Speaking of debt, now my girl Chihuahua is sick.  In the last 2 months, between getting cat all her shots so she could live safely with my friend's cats for a few months and my 2 dogs being sick, I think we have spent over $1300.  All of it charged...then the usual expenses confronted in the first part of a year...taxes, continuing education, professional licenses, HOA...then the bathroom tile...I am on a strict no spending plan now.  Which means I have to work to earn...so after being up most of the night with my sick female dog, I sure did want to stay home today.  But I managed to get up and in on time.  I am glad DH has a work from home day, he can keep an eye on her.  All she did was whimper last night.  We took her to emergency vet, they ruled out anything obvious/life threatening, so we brought her home.  She has been increasingly uncomfortable last 3 days, culminating in extreme discomfort and vomiting last night. 
Also speaking of debt, the opposite of it.  Before I got home to find my little girl sick, I spent time with my dear grandmother.  She and I went through a coin collection of hers and counted it all out and catalogued it so that DH and I can liquidate it for her.  it was $70 and some change face value but included some old coins, steel pennies, some Mercury and Liberty dimes and other silver coins, like some old quarters.  She will be happy to get that done, she said she might as well do it now and enjoy a treat - I wholeheartedly agree.
How will you treat yourselves today?  I am going to say some prayers and breathe deep and go to 2nd hot yoga this week, tonight and bed at 8:30pm!  I do have a man that saw my "coming soon" house listing.  He wants to see it when we are ready to show it.  That is a little treat, even if nothing comes of it.  I realized a certain number of people going to have to see our listing before we find "the one".  Have a great Thursday!
Psalm 50:10-11 “For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.”