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• September rolling on by

  September 22, 2020

  Before you know it, it will be the end of the month and time to pay rent again. I had a talk with my daughter. She is going to start paying half the rent now. She wasn't before but should have been. I was making more than her so I paid more. But now the…

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• Another month of nothing

  September 9, 2020

  Well I managed to pay my rent late but they are not charging late fees for now so that's good. Still not sure what I am going to do about the unemployment repayment yet. I can do a payment plan but I really don't have a lot of money right now. So I will probably…

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• Now what?

  August 31, 2020

  Well I got a letter from unemployment. They made a mistake so I have to pay that money back. Now what? Still waiting to hear from the IRS. They owe me about $900 but who knows when I will see that? I need to renew my license plates, that's another $155. Rent is due tomorrow.…

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• Desperation and some good news

  August 24, 2020

  I was down to $33 to my name with all my bills and rent coming up. I was getting desperate. I had to borrow some money from my daughter who is still working. Unemployment was reviewing my case. Mind you I haven't received benefits since the end of May. In the meantime, I had to…

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• Still home

  August 12, 2020

  Since I lost my job, or should I say retired from my job, I have been doing next to nothing. I did a few online things, a course on viruses and essential oils, some business stuff, and now I am going to start a writing course because this is a great time to work on…

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• A good phone call

  June 6, 2020

  I had emailed a long time client of mine but I didn't see the email she sent me. Not sure why. I get so many emails, I may have overlooked it. Anyway since I didn't see it, I decided to call her and leave her a message.  I just wanted to let her know that…

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• Another month down

  June 1, 2020

  I can't wait for this year to be over. It's been horrible so far. And keeps getting worse. I live in a suburb of Chicago and there has been a lot of protests in the city and even in suburbs. Some are peaceful but a lot of them aren't. There's been looting at malls, fires…

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• I’m officially retired

  May 30, 2020

  Well I'm retired. The spa is opening back up on Monday and I won't be there. I am really happy right now. I don't think I wanted to go back even before the pandemic occurred. This just made the choice easier. I went back into the spa just to pick up a few things from…

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• Important phone call part 2

  May 19, 2020

  Well I spoke with the owner, she said they are hoping to reopen on June 1st or possibly the 15th depending on the state requirement as to the curve of new cases going down.  So I have at least another 2 weeks to go. She went over all the new rules and quite frankly, I…

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