Financial meeting

10/19/07 I was up at about 6:15am. I did the copies I needed to do and I printed out the budget stuff that needed to be printed out. I have all my paperwork in my laptop bag, ready to go. I feel a bit calmer this morning knowing that today is the day and I won’t have to wait anymore. In about 3 hours we’ll be at our appointment. I wish I had thought to ask what exactly will happen at this meeting our tried to find information online, but I didn’t, so I’m a bit in the dark.

The girls are out on the couch, laying down. David is still in bed. I’m not sure what time I’ll get him up if he doesn’t wake up on his own. I’ll probably get him up around 8am. I’m not sure if I’m going to go walking this morning or if I’ll wait until later to walk. Only thing is, I’m not sure I’ll walk later. It would be warmer out then though. It’s pretty chilly out there right now and it’s windy too. I can’t look up the temperature online so I’m not sure what the temp is right now. I looked at the outside thermometer and it’s showing a bit over 30 degrees. Yikes! It is cold out there. I’d definitely have to wear my hooded sweatshirt this morning.

I have to remember to call Lisa this morning too. While I’m talking to her I need to remember to ask if she has a set of headphones that I can have/buy/borrow until I can afford to get a pair. If she doesn’t have a pair, then I’ll check with Kitty. I’m sure one of them has a set of headphones I can borrow. I’d rather listen to DR while I walk than listen to the news. I still can’t believe that my headphones were run over. ~sigh~

I think David might be waking up. I’d like it if he got up on his own today instead of me having to wake him up. He’s not easy to get up. He takes a long time to wake up and get out of bed.

It’s starting to get light out. I could go walking any time now. But it’s cold. I can’t let that stop me though. It’s going to be cold most mornings now that the weather is changing. I need to just dress warm and in layers. I wish I had some nice exercise clothes, but I can’t afford that and I don’t want to spend money when I know I’m going to be losing a significant amount of weight. My jeans are already almost too big for me. I guess I’ll have to check out Goodwill and see if I can find a pair of jeans there that will fit.

Yep, I hear David stirring. I’m sure he’s nervous about today too. He’s taken today off from work. I’m sure he’ll want to take a nap after the meeting. He wanted to go out to breakfast this morning, but I told him I didn’t think that was a good idea. We don’t have money budgeted for eating out. Guess we could use our Blow $$ but I don’t want to ‘waste’ money eating out. We have plenty of breakfast foods here in the house: cereal, waffles, eggs and smoothie makings. We’ve got to get to a point with the budget where he looks at it and can figure out if we have money to do something or not. We need to be gazelle intense right now about getting our BEF set up. Getting $1000 in the bank will require some sacrifices. It will be worth the sacrifice though.

I feel like going back to bed, not staying up. I’m tired. Think I’ll take a nap after the meeting too. Then I can go to the library. I’ll have to see how that works out.

As I’m typing, I’m thinking of taking some kind of typing test. I’m sure they have a timed test down at the PPWFC. I’ll have to check into that. I want to get a skills certificate. That might make it easier for me to get a job. But who knows, maybe I’ll get one on my own. I’m going to have to remember to apply for jobs at bookstores. I’m going to put an application in at Mardel’s. That’s only two miles from the house. I think it would be okay to work there. It’s a Christian bookstore. I really just want something close by so I don’t have to worry so much about driving in the winter weather. I don’t know if Mardel’s looks at whether you’re in a local church or not. Since we’re not, if they do, then that would hold me back. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see. I’ll look online and see if I can apply there first. If not, then I’ll go by and get an application. Or maybe they have an application online that I can print out (I’d have to save it to my hard drive and then print it out at home). The wind has really picked up. I won’t be going walking this morning as long as it’s this windy out. I can wait until later to walk. Hopefully the wind will die down by later this morning or this afternoon.

It must be chilly out – the heat just came on. I hope it warms it up in here. I’m freezing. And the dogs are using our blankets as pillows. lol I can’t afford to buy two more blankets so they’ll just have to get used to not having a pillow to lay their head on.

Think I’ll go eat breakfast now. The sun is just coming up. It looks beautiful on the Peak with the snow and the purple color from the rising sun. There’s quite a bit of snow up there already. We’d have had snow if we were living up in Woodland Park. Anyway, time to go get some breakfast. David is getting up now. I’m glad that I don’t have to wake him up. Later.

I had a bowl of cereal for breakfast. I decided not to take a shower this morning. I’m too keyed up. My hair looks good so I’m not worried about not getting a shower in. David is up. Yay! He’s not dressed yet though. I’m already dressed and ready to go. I have all my paperwork ready and waiting I’m going to take my CJ too incase I need someone’s address or phone number. I just don’t want to get there and not have some information that they need. I want to be as prepared as I can be.

The wind is letting up a bit but I’m too keyed up to go walking this morning. I’ve got to remember to call Lisa and let her know that I won’t be able to make it over there today. I’ll miss having scones probably. Hate to miss that. I guess I could tell her that I’ll have to wait and see how long the meeting goes and I could call her after the meeting to let her know if I can come over or not. It would just be easier to tell her that I can’t come over today. There’s no Sunday meeting this weekend because Helga is playing in a Philharmonic thing. Lisa and family are going to attend. We wont’ go because it costs $9 per person and we don’t have that in the budget this month. I’d like to see her play but we just can’t afford to go.

The cats are in the hallway. I need to change their box today and also get the backyard cleaned up. I could do that this morning but again, I’m keyed up and don’t really want to do anything until after the meeting. An hour until we leave for the meeting. What will I do to keep myself busy during that hour? I guess I could empty the dishwasher and start laundry. I think I’ll go do that right now.

I emptied and reloaded the dishwasher. I also started laundry. I put away the stuff that was in the dryer and have a load in the washer right now. I’ll probably get that into the dryer before we go. Then I can get the last load of laundry in the washer.

I’m really getting anxious now. I just want to get there and get this going and over with. David is getting ready. We’ll be leaving in about 15 minutes. I want to leave early so we can find the place and be early. I don’t want to be late. We have to be there at least 15 minutes early but I’d like to be there 30 minutes early. I feel like I could throw up right now. Gosh I’m nervous. I have butterflies in my stomach. I can’t believe how I’m feeling right now. I’ll calm down once we leave. I’m just anxious that David won’t be ready on time, but he is. I don’t need to worry anymore. Off we go.