I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 27 years, disabled daughter, college-aged son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!I paid out $225 for medical today and forgot to get a receipt. I will get one tomorrow as I need it for the HSA. DS got his x-ray today and we will have the results tomorrow, so it's not an extra trip to get the receipt. If all goes as the doctor suspects his forward neck posture will have been corrected almost completely.
I also picked up two self-adhesive Ace-type bandages for my daughter at $3.99 each, plus tax. Lost my receipt to the wind and don't want to do the math, but approximatly $9 for that. It's not tax deductible anyway, so I don't need the receipt, but just like to keep things exact in my records. I'll do the math later.
I made a payment to AMEX online yesterday of $500.
I put $10.26 into the coin jar this week. I got a rebate check from my insurance company's safe driver thingy for $19.83. All of that will make it's way into the freezer fund.
The lady who works on my leg cancelled on me again today. She rescheduled for tomorrow. I really hope she can make it this time. It has been 3.5 weeks now and it is starting to affect the way I walk. I know she was hurt, but she has managed to see some patients, and I've been cancelled on four or five times now. I can't put off this treatment much longer. I will need to see someone else soon, or I'll be back to walking with a cane or worse, a walker. I really don't want to leave her, but loyalty only goes so far and I can't cripple myself over it.
I set up the October budget spreadsheet and have everything on track for the month.
Homeschooling is still going along pretty well, though I have had one or two days where I just wish I could bundle DS off to school and have someone else deal with him for seven hours. When DH comes home for his two weeks off shift I think I am going to just take a few hours and go to the library and sit in a chair and read and just be away. Or the park if it's not too cold. Somewhere free. I just need some serious "me" time. I'd go to Barnes and Noble, but they took out the couches and comfy chairs. It's no longer inviting. Did they do that in all of them or just our local ones?
I used to love to go to B&N and look through their cookbooks. I would buy one book, but with me a cookbook has to be thoroughly gone through for me to know I would make the recipes and being able to sit in a comfy chair and go through them carefully and gently until I found a good one. It was a nice ritual. I don't really buy books from them now that I can't do that. I won't just buy one and hope it'll have recipes I can use.
I'd like to find some animal husbandry books, particularly on rabbits, but I'm not going to buy anything I can't take the time to comfortably look through first and know it will meet my needs. Because of my leg I can't just stand there for a half an hour looking either. Take away the little things and you take away my desire to shop there, pure and simple.
Medical Out and Other Rambles
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I hope you get into your appointment tomorrow. Sounds like you really need it.
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If you want to look at recipes, just 'Google' the ingredient or idea you want to follow. I stopped buying cookbooks because I found I usually only used a half dozen regularly after the initial 'try-out' sessions. www.cooks.com is a fast easy site to manipulate.
October 3rd, 2012 at 12:14 am 1349223251
Some of the good ones I've bought used on Amazon for about $4 shipped.
As for homeschooling. I had no idea you were into that. Can I ask what spurred your decision and how you handle it and find resources. I ask because I have a friend who is considering it. It's not really my thing, but I'd like to try to help her out as much as I can.
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As for homeschooling, I've done it off and on with both kids. DD was homeschooled for 1st through 3rd grade due to illnesses and again in 7nth and 8th grades. DS was homeschooled in 3rd and 4th grade as we adjusted to his new dietary restrictions due to food allergies and sensitivities, (one that his 3rd grade teacher blatantly ignored), so we yanked him. We pulled him again for 7nth grade because on the second to last day of 6th grade he was assaulted by another student, given a pretty severe brain injury that affected his focus, concentration, balance, and given him pretty severe anxiety. The school absolutly botched the handling of it, didn't call us immediately, didn't treat him for a head injury, basically really didn't care. Their so-called zero tolerance bullying policy was a total farce. So we pulled him.
We are doing Washington Virtual Academy, which uses the K12 program. It is the state run homeschool that is still part of the public school system. It is free because it is considered public school even though it is homeschooling and if he continues in it through high school will get a diploma from an actual Washington state high school. Every state has one of these programs.
I have also done my own homeschool curriculum with my daughter in the early years. I liked Saxon Math and Saxon Phonics (covered spelling and reading), History of the World, and I think I just got a generic science curriculum at the book store, and an Amish reader of some sort for reading.
I really like the website learningthings.com for looking for curriculum. It has a bunch of different ones all in one place. Before DS decided to do WAVA again, I had been planning on using History Oddyssey, Science Fusion, Saxon Math and Saxon Language Arts.
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