money – Stumbling Through Life

Fair warning, this week started off with a small hitch, so let’s bring on the grumbles, whines and oh mys!

After chipping the same front tooth for the millionth time the other week, I ran into my dentist’s office to get the quick bonding work needed to repair it. No biggie. It was then that I opened my big mouth and mentioned I needed to crown one of the two teeth that have had a root canal done in the past two years.
I blow my max for my dental plan in January of each year, I also happen to blow my flex spending account as well. To say that I would love to spend my FSA on say doctor visits and possibly RX sunglasses instead of my teeth is the understatement for the year.
I made the appointment, went back to the office and proceeded to mark it on my work calendar, my phone and my email as a reminder. Oh and I had sticky note as well on my monitor.
Completely forgot to mention it to my boss until the day of, luckily he understood. Completely forgot about it when I was making my dinner Sunday evening to eat on for the week.
I have special teeth apparently. If it can go wrong, it will. I hadn’t anticipated too much drilling, which freaks me out. They were low on the gas to make me forget about it. The idea of crowning the bottom tooth and temping the top was switched about a quarter of the way in, my teeth are “short” so he needed to get rid of some of the gum around that top tooth, my bite is a bit off, so it would then hurt the bottom tooth that was now to be temped so halfway through this mess he opts to crown both and we will work the money part out later.
Two and a half hours later I can no longer feel my left side of my face, my tongue feels like it is three times it’s normal size and I can already tell that this is going to hurt for a few days.
That was just Monday folks.
I am now the proud owner to two temps that will be crowned on the 1st, children’s liquid ibuprofen because the thought of opening my mouth to swallow a pill makes me cry AND my uber expensive organic romaine lettuce is just sitting in the fridge.
Oh, the lettuce you ask? I had my gallbladder taken out eight years ago and since then lettuce and my stomach hate each other. I love salads but can’t stomach (HA!) the pain.
I learned last week if I drink milk and get the organic romaine lettuce that I can handle salads again.
At least this week, my stomach clearly needs to see a therapist.
I love a good rainstorm but am starting to prefer for them to hold off until I am done with my commute.
My BFF Stace posted the cutest picture of her cutie playing with the book I got him for Christmas! Let’s just say that if the kid asks for a pony I would say yes.
My addiction to Pinterest is still going. I would like to thank Sonia for suggesting putting a board up for her little one so I can pin things I see that remind me of the snug! FYI–you better do those cookies!
My mouth is still throbbing.

I apologize for the whiny post, there are people out there dealing with much more serious issues, but I had to get it out because Wook has decided I am no longer allowed to discuss it with him. Hmph! You would think that since I keep his high flying lifestyle going he would be willing to listen. Nope. Maybe it is time to get a dog. . . just kidding!

And cringe when we do so. . . I suck at money management. If I wasn’t such a control freak, I would hand it off to my mom to deal with but I am a control freak. While I have some money hanging around (that would be a big ole thanks to the attempted charge on my card last week). I want to get to the point where I have money sitting in a savings account, hanging out so when say, a cool trip comes up, I could just say book it! Or those too good to be shoes that I adore but never will buy until I have all kinds of money sitting around that allows me not to think about this bill, or the car or the rent or whatever else.

But such is life. I go back and forth on the second job thing, I also go without a lot of wants. See, at least I got that part figured out! That purse I saw at Kate Spades? That is clearly a WANT. I know that one day the student loans will be gone, the car payment gone but until then, all of these cute little wants that I have are a pipedream. I am completely okay with that though.

My life could be much worse off, so I will shut up now and love the fact that I have a car, a roof over my head and the cat has foot because food for the cat is much more important than my wants. Trust me, he has a voice that has yet to quiet down.

What is the one thing you would love to buy (that is on your list of WANTS?) but you can’t justify it right now. My list is embarrassing and long, so I will just say this, between the books, movies, shoes and clothes I am embarrassed by how much stuff I really want. I don’t need any of it though. So I look at it online or in the store, sigh and move on.

Come on, share please! I promise I won’t tell anyone!