walking a fine line

Well, I "forced" myself to log into my bank account and assess the damage from the weekend away. It was pretty bad. A lot of it was on credit, so my mind is going to that dangerous realm of "don't have to think about it now". The rest of it, that is, what's left of my chequing account, is pretty good. I had enough to move half of my July rent payment into our joint account, and I still have several hundred dollars left to get through to payday on Monday. No sweat. I don't need much in the way of groceries and having picked up the last couple random things for the house this evening (broom - much needed, hand soap that we forgot to bring for some reason, eye masks to use at night because I didn't expect it to get so BRIGHT in the bedroom, more sunscreen because it's been intense the last week...etc etc) I think that most of that money can sit in the account and give me a head start on the bill payments that will be coming in shortly. All my bills seem to arrive around the middle of the month, and that times out well with my mid-month paycheque, leaving my end of month paycheque for rent.

One piece of semi-bad mail arrived yesterday - a letter informing me that I no longer qualify for premium assistance for MSP. Sucks. So now I have to pay the full $54 a month. On the plus side, J is adding me to his benefits plan at work (we've been common-law for a couple years now), and his work will pay 20% of my premium. So I'll be back to paying $39, just now I'll give it to J - not MSP directly. We also sorted out our contents insurance and got a lot more coverage, plus a comprehensive plan for only about $5 more a month! We're getting a discount for living in a high-rise...something I didn't account for. So that was a great surprise!

Last but not least, this weekend we will go to our old apartment to clean it out and hand over the keys. And I am really hoping I can dig up the receipt for our dishwasher - if I can find it, our landlord will buy it off us for $200. That would be fantastic...so I'm hoping I've still got the paperwork. We're also going to have to clean out our storage locker and bring everything down to the storage here on site, so that's going to be a pretty tough task. But once we're through that, we'll be clear of the old city and able to put it behind us.

Frankly, I can't wait. I've been burning out this past week or two. First the job scare, then the NEW job, then the house hunting, then the FINDING a house, then the extended move, then the emergency trip out to the interior, then the cleanup. All this during some record heat AND the job is working me to the bone. I'm flat out exhausted. Here's hoping things settle down and I can get focused. Right now I feel like I'm sort of wading my way through this month and everything is uncertain. Not a good feeling...