Day 82

Hello everyone. I'm really enjoying having one half day during the week. It feels like when I come to work on saturday, that the day flies by. Well today I officially got my oil and oil filter changed on my truck. FINALLY! Also Erin woke me up saying that I had received a check from the community college in the mail in the form of a refund of some kind. It was like $240. She was like "I wish I would get checks in the mail like you've been lately!" I was like "Well that's why I wanted to go back to school because not only will I get a degree and a better job, but stuff like this happens!"

We went to hyvee and cashed it, and I withdrew cash out of our main account that I have through securitas, and we payed $300.00 towards our electric bill. The bill has gotten quickly back up to $700.00 apparently, and the local organization that has helped us with bills in the past has a program that if you bring your tax information, and have made a recent payment to your utility bill, they will match it up to $500.00. So the reason why I recommended this to Erin was we could pay $300.00 and still have funds left (that's after all bills have been paid), and monday I want to go and see if we can get the organization to match our payment. That'll mean that the electric company will have gotten $600.00 towards the $700.00 balance. That'll put us almost to current. Plus, our insurance temporarily on our vehicles temporarily had cut out because there was a 3 week period where things were tight and i accidentally let it slip. When I went online with them thinking "Crap, I'm going to have to re-enroll and do a new policy, new cards, etc", I found out that I was able to re-instate our policy and when I did it said that it registered us as not having any gaps in coverage, and basically we resumed our coverage as if nothing happened.

So when I got off at midnight, Erin was upstairs laying down already. She has been having a bad cough, and so she hasn't been feeling too well lately. It's been rough in a way, but I'm dealing. I could have gone to bed at midnight. Lord knows I was yawning my butt off when I was sitting in the parking lot during my last two hours doing a patrol while reading off and on, but when I got home, Erin kept saying how she needed some cough drops. I looked but didn't find any. Instead of buying the name brand of mucines she bought an off brand and apparently it didn't do crap. I've done that before where I bought an off brand because of the price and it really didn't help my cough or cold at all.

So I changed back out of my sleep pants into shorts, grabbed my wallet and went to hyvee and got her a bottle of mucinex and 2 bags of halls cough drops. Being stressed out about little personal things, I of course was thinking "I need something to snack on." Instead I settled for bottle of V8 Splash. Then when I got back home, a really good sone came on the radio in the truck and I sat there for a few minutes singing my heart out to that song. Then I gave Erin her stuff I got for her. I don't know if she took any of them because she woke up long enough for me to tell her, and then when I left the room to go downstairs to watch sliders and chill out, she rolled back over onto her pillow.

I came downstairs, nuked up some left over dominos pizza, turned on sliders, and logged online to my classes. One of them even though it's still the 2nd to last day of class for the week, I already have grades for the week because I got all the posts, participation and assignments done for the week. The other class I don't have grades for the week yet but I'm done there for the week as well. Tomorrow if they post the upcoming assignments and posts for next week I will try to see what I can do to get a good start on it. I'm liking being a day ahead because then when it got to friday, I really didn't have shit to do! So, 7 more weeks and my first 2 classes towards my associates degree in Hospitality and Tourism will be done! WOOHOO!

In closing, things are going pretty well. Some times it takes extra patience and juts having faith that everything will be ok. I know things will turn out to be great and we just have to wait and see, but it's hard being patient. So, on that note, I will call it a night. Thanks for reading everybody and I will write more for you all tomorrow.