Brain overload in Day to day life from a woman that turned 60 in Oct 2014 and who lives on a farm and Retired on January 2, 2016. I plan to do more sewing, work outside in the yard and just enjoy my retirement.

Cross post from ED-
I’ve been awake and up since 4:30 this AM. Not too surprised as I’ve got a lot on my mind. It happens when I have Nothing on my mind so why not this morning? heh

A lot of things have been added to the mix this week. Work was extremely busy and the weather has been rainy and dreary for most of it. Monday we had sleet and freezing rain early in the morning with a serious spillage from the skies around 5:30 am. I could hear it outside so knew it was serious. Strangely enough very few schools cancelled and I was off work to take Dad to a Drs appointment and a couple of tests. Our school system finally cancelled but the Workshop did not and the bus came to the house to pick up J at 6:16. Dad called shortly after the bus left and I told him I guess we would give it a try. I was nervous but fought the nerves since only our district had cancelled classes. We got to the highway and low and behold it was covered with the slick crap. The lane going the opposite direction we were going had enough traffic on it that you could see tracks. On the direction we needed to go, not so much. I took it slow and easy and it took us longer than normal to make the normally less than 2 hr drive and we arrived at the exact time of his first appointment. However Dad wanted to do the blood draw first. Over an hour later, I called the clinic where his MEG was scheduled and they had to reschedule to 30 Dec. blah! When he finally got out of the blood draw place we went to his 10:30 appointment and since we were only about 10 min early he was seen pretty quickly there. He check out ok and that doctor cancelled his driving test. Dad was a very happy man! The doctor told him he would cancel the eye test but to limit his driving to only local driving. It is the traffic lights that dad has a hard time telling the colors. I am taking dad and J to Walmart in about an hour or two so he is good with me driving him. Thank the Good Lord. Speaking of the good Lord.....

Not sure I wrote about a newer Tahoe being for sale abt 3 mos ago or not. The owner of the salon where Daughter (A) works decided to sell her 2009 Tahoe. A had texted me and asked me if I was interested and I said I was but how much did she want for it. A texted me how much she would offer it to me, but I just didn’t want to pay that much. I had no doubt that it was worth the asking price and did a lot of research and checked the blue book price. Yep, she was asking just under the bb price. Still, I didn’t go for it. I told the girl that if she ever came down to the price I would pay, to let me know. She said she probably wouldn’t but would keep me in mind if that happened.

Well this week it happened. It is LOADED with a lot of custom extras. I haven’t driven it and it is in the shop get some work done as a deer hit it last week. No internal damage just cosmetic which will be fixed as good as new, so I’m told. I will see. When it comes back from the repair I will take it to my mechanic for a look see in detail. I really believe it is in top condition, but I would take any vehicle I was interested in buying to him. My brain is working over time trying to decide whether to borrow the money to buy it or to use my savings. Both decisions make my stomach hurt and my brain want to explode. Savings is making nothing right now. The interest rate would be 6.7 and that blows as I thought my credit rating should be much better. It appears that when my CC number changed it made one of my payments late 2 x and then another thing showed up because my insurance wouldn’t pay for a test 2 YEARs ago. The bill was less than 250.00 and I ended up paying it, but it is a “negative” on my credit report. Lesson learned and I did dispute those two negatives on the credit report but it is too late to help me now. THAT sucks!!

I keep wafting between going ahead and get the loan to no, use your savings. I just had a conversation with my son as his company is changing his route which will reduce his hours. I told him that God doesn’t take to the end of a plank, push you off, and not catch you. Humph! The day after that conversation he called me again and said they were adding another job that he would do on his route so his hours will be increased to almost what he is putting in now. I said “see” He caught you!

Well I’ll be dang if my own words haven’t come back to haunt me as I try to decide what to do. I believe I need to use the savings. Or maybe go ahead and get the loan and then make extra payments. Or use the savings to pay off the house in the next 5 mos. Or.........You see? What if one of the kids need help and I’ve taken almost all of my savings out? What if will absolutely drive me crazy until I make a firm decision and get it done. Prayers would be appreciated please. Oh and I did need to help A this week. She called me crying on Wed as it has not been good for the last 3 mos in the hair stylist business. Layoffs all around our community is hard on other businesses and getting hair and nails done is not a have to expense for most people. Prayers for her too.

Thank you all for allowing me to write out my crazy mind whirl this morning. Maybe it will help now that I’ve written it down.

Take care and God Bless