Hysterical

Financial affairs in order?? ROTFLMAO

 But when I really think about it, I have tried to set up a strict routine for paying the regular bills, so that we both know what needs to be done when, and have developed the habit of doing it that way. This means that one or two are always paid a few days late, and on at least one, this means a slightly higher interest charge.  I use automtic payments when I can.  It's the irregular bills that get lost in the shuffle, such as the lawn care company that sends its bill out in October with an April 30th due date. But our discretionary spending is usually chaos, and there are sometimes pretty tight days at the end of the month. 

We have finally arranged to have our carpet cleaned--long overdue.  David picked one out of the phone book and they are coming this afternoon.  I've always been leery of carpet cleaners.  They can be sleezy and usually try to"up sell" you.  We used to have an older man who came on his own with a steam cleaner, who we quite liked, but he retired and no-one took over.  When we had a small fire a few years back, the recovery company sent a fellow who got very upset with us when we told him that he couldn't use cherry-scented cleaning fluid.  He just couldn't understand why we were concerned, and it almost reached the point of us asking him to leave.

Since we separated the two blogs, I've tried to keep them quite separate.  I know there are one or two friends who read this one, but people from all over the world read the other one, and somehow, I didn't think they would be interested in Gillian's birthday.