The good news
To anyone listening,
The good news is that our A/C just needed a replacement part. Back in 2014, I signed up for this monthly fee through Nicor to cover furnace repairs up to a certain amount. I wasn't sure if it was still effective but thankfully I called and it was. Our furnace technically wasn't turning on either so it all worked out. Whew! I added an A/C package for repairs too.
Not sure if I mentioned it or not but I was able to haggle a guy down for the price of an engine to under $1000 so that plus shipping plus labor is still about $1300 less than the other price quoted. The labor is a lot but it is like over 13 hours of work. I should have been a mechanic!
As far as my abdomen pain, well.. it's still there. My friend Lisa is so concerned. She is so sweet. She offers to do so many things for me but she does so much for a lot of people when it comes to health stuff. If it gets worse though I promised her I would go to the ER. I can still drive myself at least.
I know, we need money. Physically I can't do much and if I want disability, I can't work even a little soooo here I am in limbo again. If I apply again and get denied, I will do what I can to get a job and preferably work from home because my health stuff would make it really hard to work somewhere else. I would need like the greatest internet of all time too. We will cross that bridge when we get to it.
It is the same thing for auditioning for plays. I want to but with health stuff, would that be smart and like have to cancel a show because something else happened to me? That's not fair to anyone. We will cross that bridge when we get to it too. Put adoption on that bridge too btw..
Today I am thankful that I have a husband who works hard and supports us both, I am thankful for the friends I have in my life that I love and make me laugh when that's all I really need, I am thankful for the family I still have, I am thankful I woke up today and had a roof over my head, and I am thankful to be alive because that means I still have a purpose. I am mostly thankful that I know God and know that struggles and trials happen but even in the worst of times, I can still cry out to Him and be loved.
I'm not at all perfect. No one is. I'm not the smartest. Who is? I'm not the most beautiful or most talented or best wife and friend at all, but in the words of Forrest Gump "I do know what love is."
Keep praying, keep walking, keep being thankful, keep loving and the rest is just stuff.
Someone said to me this weekend something like don't go out there looking unless you know first what you are looking for.
"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude"
"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy"
Trying to remember the good before the bad
The good news is that our A/C just needed a replacement part. Back in 2014, I signed up for this monthly fee through Nicor to cover furnace repairs up to a certain amount. I wasn't sure if it was still effective but thankfully I called and it was. Our furnace technically wasn't turning on either so it all worked out. Whew! I added an A/C package for repairs too.
Not sure if I mentioned it or not but I was able to haggle a guy down for the price of an engine to under $1000 so that plus shipping plus labor is still about $1300 less than the other price quoted. The labor is a lot but it is like over 13 hours of work. I should have been a mechanic!
As far as my abdomen pain, well.. it's still there. My friend Lisa is so concerned. She is so sweet. She offers to do so many things for me but she does so much for a lot of people when it comes to health stuff. If it gets worse though I promised her I would go to the ER. I can still drive myself at least.
I know, we need money. Physically I can't do much and if I want disability, I can't work even a little soooo here I am in limbo again. If I apply again and get denied, I will do what I can to get a job and preferably work from home because my health stuff would make it really hard to work somewhere else. I would need like the greatest internet of all time too. We will cross that bridge when we get to it.
It is the same thing for auditioning for plays. I want to but with health stuff, would that be smart and like have to cancel a show because something else happened to me? That's not fair to anyone. We will cross that bridge when we get to it too. Put adoption on that bridge too btw..
Today I am thankful that I have a husband who works hard and supports us both, I am thankful for the friends I have in my life that I love and make me laugh when that's all I really need, I am thankful for the family I still have, I am thankful I woke up today and had a roof over my head, and I am thankful to be alive because that means I still have a purpose. I am mostly thankful that I know God and know that struggles and trials happen but even in the worst of times, I can still cry out to Him and be loved.
I'm not at all perfect. No one is. I'm not the smartest. Who is? I'm not the most beautiful or most talented or best wife and friend at all, but in the words of Forrest Gump "I do know what love is."
Keep praying, keep walking, keep being thankful, keep loving and the rest is just stuff.
Someone said to me this weekend something like don't go out there looking unless you know first what you are looking for.
"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude"
"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy"
Trying to remember the good before the bad
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