Busy Week

Holy week is always busy because of the church activities but this year was a little busier because of helping at Pre-School and various other stuff going on. I also have to be at church super early in the morning because our Sunday School class is in charge of the Sunrise Services and breakfast, I am a greeter for normal church services later that morning and teacher at Children’s Church during the regular service. After that we will have to clean up from the breakfast.

Don and I had planned to go out for lunch after church but his brother called and invited us over to their house because Don’s nephew is visiting from North Dakota. I like his brother and his wife but have a couple issues that will make it a difficult day for me. One, their entire family and Don are all heavy smokers. I have never smoked and have a real problem even being around Don when he smokes. I know I will be choking most of the day. Second problem is that I just came off a 40 day fast and I was really looking forward to going out to a good lunch tomorrow.  I’m hoping I can talk Don into going to lunch first and then to his brother’s house. Another possible third problem is that we invited Zach to go to lunch with us if he doesn’t have other plans. He hasn’t let me know for sure yet. So if he wants to go to lunch with us we will have to take separate cars because I know Zach won’t want to go on to brother’s house afterward, or we will have to skip lunch and disappoint Zach (and me).  Fourth problem is that Don’tsbrother and his wife are bikers and have the foulest mouths in the world. Not really what I want to listen to on Easter Sunday! Oh well, it will all work out. I’m hoping maybe Don will be too tired to go. I guess that’s a little selfish though!

Speaking of Don, when we got married I agreed to take care of paying Don’s credit cards. Out of his account. He was far, far in debt because of internet spending. I used the snowball method and now have over half of them paid off. I paid on off this month and will pay off another one next month and another in June. I have been debt free for a couple years and refuse to share a bank account with him. I took all his credit cards and closed the accounts as they were paid. But he still buys off the internet almost daily. I just make him use a debit card. So until I know he has his internet spending under control and is completely out of debt, there will be no shared bank account. I can’t see that ever happening. I am now paying all the household expenses but that too will stop when he is out of debt. That will then be split between us.

Don is still fighting the bill at where someone used his (unactivated) credit card to pay for a hotel room in California and I just found out that someone tried to use my Paypal account to buy an Amtrac ticket to Michigan! As much as I love the internet I’m getting afraid to use it!