Posted by: zpetals on: April 6, 2009
We had to run down to CarpenterBoy’s hometown last week, when his father had another stroke; I got the call when I was teaching and rushed home, and we got things together for the normally 6 hour drive (that took us 8 hours that day). We had to rent a car and cancel a LOT of things that were on the schedule last week, but made it to visit with his family and sit at the hospital in the ICU waiting room for three days.
His dad is okay now, and seems to be getting through this health issue. We won’t know for a few weeks what the mental damage is, but so far, he’s healing physically just fine.
All this running around and missing out on a few volunteer and paid gigs and having to rent a car and having to spend money eating at the hospital rather than home/leftovers has taken a crunch out of our money situation; I had intended to work through a few things last week, and send a big chunk to both savings and CC#1, but haven’t even had time since we returned on Friday to get to the financial stuff. I’m hoping to do that today when Bean naps.
All in all, I think we’ll be okay, but the trip will throw a small wrench in the plans to snowflake some of the money we were paid last week. That’s okay, though. I just have to be all calm and zen about it—it’s life. Things happen. Plans can be adjusted when necessary.
