Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Hidden Blessings...

When I was hired last fall my HR person told me that my district was on a 10-month payment cycle. Meaning, I wouldn't get checks for July and August.

Tad & I have known this all year long, so we have been saving and saving for a fun anniversary trip and to survive the summer. When gas became too expensive for a trip to seattle and canada, we went for San Fran. We were were able to save and allocate enough to splurged on a nice hotel and really nice restaurants.

On the last day of our trip in SF, We pull out money to pay the parking attendant. . . and there is a number noticeably MORE then it was on Wednesday. Its about the size of my monthly payment. . . . but . . . what???

At home its confirmed it is my paycheck... So We have two unexpected paydays! Yeah! This will definitely jump start our savings for a house!

Sometimes blessings have always been there, you just gotta look for them.


5 comments:

lorieloo said...

yeah for surprise money and a fun anniversary trip!

Megan Tabangcora said...

Yahoo for unexpected money. The other day we got a random check in the mail for 20 bucks and I ran around the house singing "we in the money" for at least 5 minutes. Riley thought it was great. Glad you guys had a great trip.

Eliza said...

I love the surprise money! I just got some from my disability insurance - all this time I thought I had horrible disability insurance, but it turns out someone had typed my address wrong into the system. My check never arrived until somehow a letter got through (thank you Postman) to me (with the wrong addy) and I was able to sort it out. Last week, I finally got my disability check for while I was on maternity leave.

Alisa Marie said...

yeah for school districts!

venessa said...

that is sooooo amazing alisa!