Looking on the brighter side of most days, these days is what I aim for, but some days make it more of a challenge.
And I bet that you can all relate.
Hubby over the weekend found out that his Medicare/supplement would be going up $104 a month and so he called to ask why and the explanation was one not that different from the Na, Na, Na, Na we used to say when we were kids, meaning: TOO BAD!
Now I never did that, wink here, bad Tobi, but I can recall the bigger kids doing it to be mean on occasion.
And then today I received my reality slap with my pre-existing federal insurance also going up another fifty-six bucks a month.
Now it all would be so much worse that nearly two thousand bucks a year in loss of income, except for one bright spot in the tumult, we on social security all received a hefty COLA increase, actually a pitiful one of 1.7%! Not funny at all…
This does not help us compensate for any of the new increases or even our personal COLA that continues to rise day by day! See, I bet you say, yep me too… but maybe not?
Our homeowners insurances including our flood, taxes, food, all went up, and if you blink you might have noticed that gas has come down, a wee bit, hurray!
Still looking for that silver lining, like everyone else!
We manage our finances just fine and we’ll metaphorically have to tighten our belts, slightly, you see, so far Hubby’s pension still gets that whopping big 3% COLA every summer, at least he has been getting for the last few years that he has been retired… things change though…, but his is a state funded pension and so I will say that is another looking-up thingy!
Most people would be crying with that stuff creating havoc with their finances, well as we all know they’re much more important things to cry over…And we are just cheap enough to be able to adapt! Another plus for us!
Now back to what is truly on all our minds and concerns, since we all know in life what truly matters and breaks our heart way too often:
Here’s some info for all of us who want to do something but have been baffled on what…
Address to send Donations
by Pray for Sandy Hook Elementary School on Monday, December 17, 2012 at 8:59am •
Here is the official address to send all monetary donations too. This comes directly from the Newtown, CT website!
Check donations may be mailed to:
Sandy Hook School Support Fundc/o Newtown Savings Bank39 Main Street, Newtown CT 06470
Or may be dropped off at any Newtown Savings Bank branch location. For questions please call 800-461-0672
To pay by credit card, please follow this link (which will also give you all of the other information you need about donations). Thank you all for your support!
https://newtown.uwwesternct.org/
In closing please make a fuss when it matters over things that are important and let the other stuff fall by the wayside… This is the season that we all reflect on happiness and our own personal sadness and so for the sake of yourselves and your children look for the silver linings and turn emotion into motion by doing something positive.
We all search for those special gifts well caring for others tis that season so do what you know is right… and NIKE!
On that note of trying to give us all a perspective in these trying times just about anything we can think of is not that easy any more… allow me to be the first to wish all of you a very HAPPY good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages, you know where… and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!