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i asked hub if he was ready for our dau to get married. he said no, but that at least he could afford it now. he used to worry that he wouldn’t be able to afford a nice wedding for dau. how sweet. he is such a good provider. we have always had enough money to buy food and then some. Even the lean times were not that bad. the Lord blessed us and continues to bless us financially. it is not that we are “rich” but we do ok. we have very little debt, and that is what i like the most. I would prefer to have less and no debt than have what i want and make payments. i would rather do without. it has been a case where i can usually buy anything i need and not have to finance it.

we took out a loan on our van, but i should have that paid off in less than the 4 yrs that it is set up for. i can handle one payment. i didn’t even want a new vehicle. i was so happy with my old one. it was paid off. i am still adjusting to the idea. i miss my old one. it only had 100 k on it and i had taken such good care of it, it would have gone another 100k. plus i had replaced the windshield. i wouldn’t have done that if i knew we would be trading it in!

insurance and taxes are less on an older vehicle. but hub wanted to buy me a new one. he is like that. it makes him feel good to know he can afford a new one, so he got me one. it is nice. it is very much like my old one with 100 k less miles on it. and yes, very nice. i haven’t gone down to the courthouse yet to license and pay taxes, cough, gag, choke. i hate that. but yeah, i can do it. maybe tomorrow.

i went to the bank. i am an idiot. i had two checks. and i had written them both on the deposit slip over the weekend. i was trying to decide, am i going to put this in the overnight slot since the bank is closed Monday, or do I wait til Tues so I can take some cash out? So i didn’t total it. so i took the cks to the bank, took out some cash, and wrote on there the total. the stupid deposit slip doesn’t have a place for subtotal, so i subtracted my cash from the one check only. never thought about it until i checked my acct for something else and realized the deposit amt was for only one of the two cks! the other one was over 1000! and it doesn’t show up on my bank acct online! of course the bank is closed now so i can’t call til tomorrow. i am freaking out. i am glad we live in a small town and the ppl know me. i can say, hey, i had two cks! can you look into it because the total should be this instead! and of course i didn’t write the totals down anywhere but on the deposit slip i left with them. duh. i hate that about paperless stuff. if i have a deposit i don’t recognize (since i am so bad about writing them down), i can’t see what it was for. i had a ck for some investment stuff hub withdrew (at a loss, no less, gag me) but i didn’t know how much it was for because it was too close to what we usually deposit with our paycks. the only way i could figure it out was to match up paydays with the deposits and the one that was a different day was the oddball one. what a drag. oh crud, and i tithed on it and i don’t suppose i have to since it was an investment we lost money on. oh, well. The Lord can have some extra. i am sure I miss some things along the way too, and this can make up for that, just in case.

faith hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.