Thunder & Lightening

[dalthauser]

 A giant crack of thunder woke me straight up last night.  This sort of thing always happens when I go to bed late and need as many remaining hours of sleep as I can get.  Anyway, lots of rumbling thunder and rain.  As soon as it was light I checked on the chickens - they were huddled under the coop - they appear traumatized.  Once I came with greens to eat they miraculously recovered.  On my way back to the house I slipped in mud and landed on my bare hands and knees - nice.

I got a thing in the mail from the stimulus people saying I'm getting $600 and I'll have it by May 9th.  It's 300 more than I thought I was getting.  All of it going to finally pay off the credit card that I've been carrying a balance on for months.  When I had the big tree removed I had to put some things on the card to compensate - I've been carrying a balance ever since.  It's the first time I'd carried a balance in about 10 years.    

I rushed to work this morning forgetting to eat breakfast.  Thank you Orville Redenbacher microwave popcorn! (I keep a box in my desk at all times - breakfast of champions).

Comments

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

Yes - I prefer to be debt free whenever possible. My first 2 years in Texas was rough though - Thank goodness I don't have a large mortgage and know how to live frugally :-)

I paid off my 12mo no interest purchase from Lowes (chest freezer & irrigation supplies) this month - and in July I make my last truck payment.

[walksbeauty.livejournal.com]

awesome... yea, we were debt free for a while... felt GREAT!... them I had 2 kids in college! woooooo..... that set us back a bit and with the rough winter, my partner was out of work (building trades) for a couple of months! We're still recovering from that...