Money in money out

oh, the weekend went too fast. Yesterday I did mostly cleaning. DH is still working on the coop/shed. It's coming along, but slow when it's just him. It takes time to figure out all the pieces, cut measure, install, paint or stain, etc. He started on the coop part, which is a project in and of itself. He's getting tired. I'll never understand why he can't figure out how to pace himself and give himself some rest time. Seems to me to maybe spend 2 days working a half day would be better than doing a 10 hour day and then being so worn out that he can barely move the next day and can't do much of anything.

The vet had emailed me a copy of the invoice for the dog visit. $81 of it was the medications he gave me for their diarrhea. So, if they hadn't needed meds it would have been about $100 for each dog, which I do not think is bad at all. I think when I took our black dog in for his last checkup (tried a different vet in the city then I had when we first moved to the area, that was a little closer drive) it was like $130 (with some shots).

And speaking of dogs, sad news. Our neighbors are putting down their oldest dog today. She's my sweet "girlfriend", who would always come over and visit and just hang out with us. She's almost 14 now. She doesn't walk too well anymore and very incontinent now, so they can't have her free in the house, like they always have, just been keeping her and her dog bed in the laundry room, which they feel so sad about. So, they decided it's time. She was outside with neighbor yesterday, when she was telling us, so I got to give her pets and hugs and she gave me a kiss on my nose. I will miss her, sweet dog. It will be interesting to see if they end up getting another dog down the road soon.....seems like the Mrs. needs lots of dogs around. When we first met them, they had 3, then one died of cancer so they got another one right away and back to 3....then added the 4th one last year.  I think that's ok, if they were retired and home most of the time, but they are gone most of the time and then wonder why their dogs don't listen or behave or bark.

I started a new book that I'm really enjoying. The Giver of Stars, by JoJo Moyes.

I'm due for my annual physical checkup but my dr office is only doing virtual visits. I really don't see  a need right now for a virtual visit for it. I'm not having any issues and my 2 prescriptions I have been on for years, so I don't think giving me another 2-3 months of them, until I can go in for an office visit, is really too big of deal. I had asked for a refill a few weeks ago and she only did it for one month (rolling eyes) so this morning I requested refill again. Last night I realized I'd better get this done, or I might run out before refill can get mailed out to me.

I came across an article in my news feed that was titled something like are we going to get another stimulus payment in May? I'm like, I haven't even got the first one! LOL. I have been checking my status everyday still. Now that they have my direct deposit info, I've been logging in daily to see if there is an update on when I should get it. This morning finally showed an answer - should be Wednesday! The first thing is $475 of it will be paid to my Lowe's card, where I charged the new freezer to a couple of weeks ago. I put it on my card so I could save the extra 5% and was hoping I'd get the stimulus money before my payment would be due on 5/22. I plan to use some of it to stock up on food and probably do a meat order, at least for ground beef. And then $500 approx for our dogs little surgery to remove his growth coming up on Friday.

I tried the new steaks last night for dinner. Delicious - but huge steaks! I think we might just share one next time. We are used to the thin cut steaks, so not so much to eat. I've never been good at cooking steaks (via any method) but over the past couple of years got the time length down pretty pat on the thin cut. But, I actually managed to do these new steaks perfect. Just too much to eat!

My mom had a birthday (79) on Saturday. Do you think SB or any of the other step kids called her? Of course not. And it's not like they don't know when her birthday is.....no to mention their dad (my adopted step dad) passed away on her birthday (10 years ago), so kind of hard to forget either one, now. Ok, I take it back. I just looked at her cell phone call log and my youngest SB (not the one who had POA) did call her, or his daughters did, so that was nice of him.

My mouse is driving me nuts. It's like it's double clicking when I'm not. Seems mostly to be doing it when I am remotely logged into my work desktop.  Like I'll click on a vendor in Quickbooks and instead of just taking me to it's info, it opens up the vendor like I double clicked it. Or in my Outlook email I have the reading pane open below the emails. I'll click on a new email, which should just display it down below in the reading pane, but it opens the whole email up in a new window.