Last week was a troublesome and sad affair and this week isn’t shaping up to be much better sadly. With everything that has been going on I haven’t had much time (or inclination) to blog. First of all, thank you so much to everybody who has been commenting, dropping emails, and just sending kind words and thoughts for us during this time. It has been really appreciated.

For those that don’t know, my furbaby Isis passed away last Sunday. She became sick some time late Friday, although since Isis has a habit of curling up to take naps in places that are out of sight (like under chairs and behind curtains) I didn’t realize anything was wrong until very late that evening. I took her to the vet first thing Saturday and although there was some initial improvement, Isis didn’t make it and passed away on Sunday.

I brought Isis home on Monday and she was laid to rest in the yard, beneath her favorite window to sleep on too. I’ve got a small wooden fence constructed around it right now and plan on making a headstone for her. I’m undecided about whether to leave the soil as it is or make a rock bed on top with a few flowers planted around the head stone. Whatever I end up deciding though, it’ll have to wait for a bit. I am completely broke right now.

Isis’ vet bill was pretty big and I took out most of the money I had in my checking account to pay it, what little I left in wasn’t enough to cover my discover card bill which is taken out automatically. I should have been fine because the bill wasn’t due to be paid for a few more days and I had hoped to go and donate plasma to get the rest I needed put in ASAP. But Discover card took out the payment early and I was $11 dollars short. Lovely. My bank covered the difference thankfully, but now I have an overdraft fee and a negative balance to fix. Joy.

To top it off, one of my tires is messing up. Won’t hold air for shit and my spare tire picked developed a slow air leak to boot. I had to go up to town today and get it taken care of. Thankfully my tires were under warranty so they got fixed for free. Well, the spare wasn’t as it’s the spare that came with the car, but the guys there were willing to fix it for me for free despite not having what’s called a 5th wheel warranty. I’ve been a loyal customer and my other tires were under warranty so they fixed it for free.

Which was so wonderful because I really didn’t know what I was going to do about the spare. The other tire was covered, I knew that. But the fifth? Uh yeah, that one I expected to just have to leave alone for now. Thankfully that wasn’t the case though!

Of course the downside is that I am still pretty much flat-broke and waiting for money to come in and cover that negative balance. Ugh.