Last night I drove my mom to the airport and she flew back home to Boston. It was great having her here for the 10 days and she was such a huge help in getting us unpacked and settled in here. Since I came down here on the 12th of June we've had someone staying with us or we were waiting for our movers and didn't have our things. Last night was the first time it was just the 3 of us and we were in our new home. It was nice but definitely weird. Today my sister and brother took Ava to Bradley Palmer State Park to play in the wading pool and I so badly wish Allie and I were there to go with them. And for the 4th of July everyone's going up to the lake house for a cook-out and it's just Allie and I because Bill has to work. We may go to the beach but the weather right now says it's going to be 99 out so we will see if it's even safe for us to go. But the 3 of us went to the beach today and had a blast. The waves were huge and I must say, Allie is fearless. She lets those waves knock her down and wash over her and she just gets back up and smiles and goes back at it.
In other news, our laptop got a bad virus last week and after a few days of asking around and not being able to fix it, we went out and just bought a new one on a Best Buy credit card. Not the smartest move financially for us right now but in the long run it was a good idea. My laptop was 4.5 years old which is basically ancient and it was slowly dying. The desktop had no icons on it for some reason and the screen was cracking so bad we couldn't even close it anymore. So the salesman conned us into doing the credit card and we don't pay interest for 18 months so hopefully we can pay it off within that time. Who knows though. I did our finances yesterday and we are going to be tight every month. Bills check will cover just our bills so we will have to use savings for other things which I really wanted to avoid doing. But with his schedule being so scattered and his going to the academy for 12 weeks, I can't take a job other than a set 9-5 where I can have Allie in a good daycare and be sure to get her on time. It's just hard for me right now because we've always had two incomes and not paid rent, now we have one income and rent. Our credit card debt is building from the move and I called to dispute the charges today and they basically told me I have no case. Even though the movers breached contract 3 times, because I did still use their services (I had no choice but to), I have no case and they won't do the dispute for me. UGH! Not what I wanted to hear. Between that debt and our school loans, I'm fairly certain we will be paying things off until we're in our 50s unless we hit the lottery. But I have to keep reminding myself that we have our health and our happiness and money is just that; money. It's going to be hard for a while but we will be ok, and thank goodness we don't splurge or go out often and we have money in savings to help us out.
And on a final note, Bill had his first night of field training Sunday night. He went out with an officer and rode around their "precinct". It was a good night he said but he saw something very tragic. I can't go into detail what it was but I hope he never has to see something like that again because it will surely take a toll on someone. But he has work again tomorrow night and the tourists are starting to come into town heavily now so I'm sure he will be busy and have lots of interesting stories!
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