Sun, Glorious Sun.

This morning my little man and I went to run some errands. We stopped by our new bank, and conferred over I was reading all of their new statements correctly, we went to the market and got a gallon of milk and some new sun glass (we all have sensitive eyes in our family), and then we went to the playground to see if anyone was there. And they were there! Tons of kids. I guess the other city folk really enjoy the nice 40 degree weather as well.

Us poor snow people. Look, no one is even weather jackets (except for me.)  We also stopped by the library and my little man was very good this time. I wanted to check out some books to help me with my new five year plan. My plan was to read one book of each these categories a month: Investing, Money management, parent/ kids, and spirituality.  So I got the following books: Suze Orman Women and Money, America's Cheapest Family, Telling Stories to Children, and The Secret. I know you just saw the Secret and thought is that really spirituality? I beg to differ because it is a way to look at the world in a different way.  I have seen the movie before and was sincerely intrigued by it, which meant when I saw this book that it was a little too tempting to pass up. Each book is on average 200 pages, which means that I should be able to get through all of these books in about a week.  A couple of them look like easy reads.

 I was wondering while going through the investment books, are books that are a few years old really already outdated? The economic landscape seems to me that these books are now warranted as useless. I don't know though. I guess any book is better than no book.  I caught a few minutes of Suze Orman's last TV special, in it she said that everything that she has taught in the past is incorrect and that with today's new economic horizon, that we must invest differently. I will still read this book because I am sure there is a massive amount of good knowledge in it. 

The bank called me like 10 times this morning. It is probably because we have an overdraft in that account. Maybe they are calling to alert us? Trust me bank, I know. There is nothing I can do about it. I was going to answer the next call, but it looks like that for now that they have given up.  All I could say is, ' Hey, I don't have any money right now.  You are just going to have to wait like me. Your charging me ten dollars a day to have that overdraft on my account along with all of the other fees, so what's it to you, you're making money on this. Oh, yea, and by the way if you would like me to deposit money sooner, maybe you can give me a job. That way I can work free for a couple of days just to pay back what I owe you in fees. ' On second thought, I'm sure that they get this quite a bit.

I really have a lot of sympathy for people whose job it is to call on the phone and collect.  They are just trying to pay their bills too. The good thing is that we do not have any debt at all.  So hoorah to us. I will gladly take paying these fees knowing that this is the money season and that we will have more than enough money to pay for whatever we need. Winter is just a hard time for sales in the great white north (finding a job too.) 

I feel so blessed right now to be able to sit her and type this out. It really is a blessing to me. It really helps me to think through everything that I am feeling. ..... Dear Not So Private Diary..... I am sitting here by my dining room window listen to the birds sing and the wind blow through the branches that are yet to have leaves. Life is good. Woosah. Woosah.

If anyone reads this, I would like to thank you, and say that it would be very kind of you to say a prayer for my family and I.