Last week was just one of those weeks – things just seemed to go wrong in crazy ways, Harry was home sick on Monday and then Tuesday and Wednesday he was home due the freezing rain we’d been having, so he had them as snow days. On Tuesday I went on a shredding binge, getting our paper lives down to just the important things. As I was going through envelopes, I discovered a check from our health insurance company, they give out incentives for wellness testing etc, and since Jeremy and I both participated in the Wellness program with his employer, we got our incentives in the form of this check. The check was for a couple hundred bucks – and it was a total surprise because I had no idea we were to be getting it. I thought you had to submit a claim/information, and I didn’t realize the Wellness Program Thing counted as one of the incentive earners, lol.

So, seeing that I’m all excited, yay! A little windfall, it can go right into savings and live happily. Then I looked at the date of issue – it was September 20, 2016 WHAT?? Noooooo!!! Ok, calm down, it’s probably good for 180 days. Nope. Void after 90. It’s after 90 days, lol. Now I was feeling ill. Literally sick to my stomach at the thought of it becoming a stale dated check. But, ever hopeful, I thought I’d contact them and see if it could be reissued, after all I’d never cashed it, and I even still had it. Emailing didn’t work, you had to call a particular number, so I had to wait until Jeremy could take care of it, as he’s primary. This was Tuesday I believe, and with Jeremy’s work schedule, he’s home usually too late to take care of any business stuff, so it would have to wait until his day off on Friday.

Wednesday rolls around and I’m in the middle of cooking dinner and Jeremy calls – the truck broke down and I would have to drive up (about 45 min away, one way) and pick him up. Luckily he was super close to an auto repair shop and was able to get there and talk to the owner about what had happened. Something happened and oil pressure was lost and he wasn’t sure how long it had been gone and was hoping the motor wasn’t smoked. I was rather upset at this thought myself! We take such good care of that vehicle, it was crazy! Not to mention what might the repair bill be one way or the other???  I hate unexpected bad things like that! So I shut down the dinner making and headed out to go rescue him.

The drive up was kind of entertaining (despite the 3 deer that decided to cross in front of me causing me stomp on the breaks, ugh). Harry sang all the way – making up his own song that sometimes was surprisingly insightful and way too mature sounding! But the nearer we got to our destination, he started to worry we wouldn’t find Daddy, lol. It took a lot of assurances that we wouldn’t be going back home without Daddy!:D

We get a call the next day from the auto repair shop, the motor was ok – thank goodness – it was a part failure, one that was relatively new and should not have failed in the way it did, and due to where Jeremy works, the owner gave us a discount as well on the repair. The total repair bill came to about $180.00! I was so relieved as I’d envisioned much, much, worse because we seem to be the ones that stuff like that happens to – we never catch the breaks! But this time we did. Sort of, lol.

Then we get to Friday finally and with all the uproar calmed down, Jeremy was able to call on that insurance check. They will be reissuing it for us! Another break!

And after I was thinking about it, it was struck me serendipitous – I found a check I didn’t know we’d had from September 2016, so we’d “lived” without it,  and that just happened to come in handy, as it would cover the unexpected auto expense we had. It’s funny how things like that work sometimes – found money I didn’t know I had, unexpected expense I didn’t plan to have, and spent the found money I didn’t know I had on the unexpected expense, lol. Easy come, easy go as they say! But, the Universe came to the rescue – granted, my bonus check can’t live happily ever after in my savings account, but it allowed me to break even in an unexpected expense!! I’ll take that any day!