Sometimes, you can't win for losing.

[conuly]

Last night, around 1am, Eva threw up. Her mother wasn't home yet, so she got out of bed, washed up, changed her clothes, rinsed her mouth, and decided to come upstairs and fetch me. After determining that Jenn wasn't going to be home for another half an hour I went downstairs. I was utterly useless, of course, and never really woke up, but that's fine because the children are being raised to be self-sufficient and apparently it's working. Before she got into bed to snuggle with me Eva even remembered to bring a trash can to throw up into, and believe me, I would not have remembered that at that hour of night!

This morning, we needed to pay the cable bill, and I got tasked to do that. I thought we had about $200 more in the account than we did, so I blithefully paid up.

This afternoon, I went to clean the litterbox, and the very second it was clean, as I was about to start scooping new litter in, the cat decided she urgently needed to pee. *sigh* Less than three minutes has GOT to be a new record. At least I was able to dump the pee back out into the toilet. It's silly, but a clean box, newly soaped up and all, is an accomplishment.

Then I went to the store and found out that we only had $10 left in the account, because of the bill. We won't starve, but god, I hate having to put things back when I get to the checkout, especially when it's everything.

Sometimes, you just can't win.

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Poor Eva, sorry to hear she threw up. Good on her for being self-sufficient about it, though. I hope she's better today.

Cats always have to use the litterbox as soon as it's clean, but you're right, 3 minutes may be a new record.

OUCH, sorry to hear about your account - at least you didn't bounce anything, eh? My last check to my doctor cleared before my deposit, overdrew, got a fine; therefore the deposit was $75 short: argghhh! We won't starve either, but it means I'm not going anywhere or doing anything this month or most of next. All my 'margin' got et up by medical and veterinary bills.

*sigh* Sometimes Voluntary Simplicity is awfully hard to distinguish from plain old involuntary poverty. You hang in there, hon.

[conuly]

No, thankfully nothing bounced. If I had realized the bill was so close to the total in checking I would've asked to speak to a human and had them cut the bill into two payments, one today and one next week. They usually do that, even if they've already cut off service.

*hugs* $75, ouch! When I was a kid, I didn't grasp why my mother was positively obsessive about dating the checks only for after her pay came in, and checking with whomever it was to make sure they knew not to deposit it until then. It was so embarrassing, but now I get it. Boy, do I ever.