Better Today

I did better today with my points allowing me a piece of birthday cake left over from Sunday.  And even with the cake, I managed to stay under points.  I am missing coffee, though.  I've been crabby, but I am going to blame the children.  They seem very hyper right now.  (Well, right now, they are in bed for my sanity.)

The pigs need their evening meal and fresh water.  Flora needs food and water.  I need to make up some whole wheat bisquick mix.  I also need to clean up from dinner still.

We did errand running and bill paying today.  Our cell phone bill is over $400.  Shocked, I looked closer and saw that I went over my minutes.  Way over.  Over 500 minutes over.  This is an anomaly.  That is what we are saying anyway.  We've never gone over before and having the number of deaths and illnesses and having to call places and be on hold a lot racks the minutes up quickly.  If we are over again, I will look into more minutes.

We transferred money into paypal so we can place our order for chicks.  We are getting hens from one place and the turkeys and guineas will come from another.  We also need to order a disbudder.  The places around here stopped carrying them.  They have disbudding paste and if we separated and bottle fed the kids, we might do that.  But since we keep the kids with their moms and the moms clean them, we don't need the paste being ingested.

I discovered another reason why I like my insurance agent.  I had told him that we had been unable to get George life insurance and explained the whole situation.  Diabetes is fine.  Seizures is fine.  Combined is not fine and add a plate in the head makes it more not fine.  Not only can he not get insurance even with the high-risk acceptors, they (the high-risk acceptors) had said that even if we did find someone who might take him, it would be so cost prohibitive that it would not be worth it.  That we would be better off just putting money aside ourselves.

Telling our agent this, he was astounded because the guy he referred us to can usually match high-risk with someone but that is not the case here.  The guy who assessed us even has a child who has seizures so he understands the dilemma.

Anyway, the agent had said that he will keep his eyes and ears open for someone who might take George even if that means it won't be with (insert insurance company name here.)