everything will be alright

Had a busy weekend here, much busier than I anticipated. Looks like I've picked out a new car, a 2011 Kia Sorento, which is fully loaded and has all the neat bells and whistles. Which comes in Java Brown, which I think my better half will greatly enjoy - her favourite beverage and one of her favourite colours all wrapped up in one. It's a great machine, and it'll be less than what I'm paying now on my leased machine, and this will be to own, so that rocks. Deferred payments will help too, won't start until after Christmas, so I'm kinda stoked about that.

We also found out that they'll be covering us for the damage done to the house, which is also great news. We should get the funds soon and we'll be finishing the job we've already started ourselves (by we I mean my father). That's been hanging over our heads for awhile so it's nice to know that's done, or going to be done at any road, in the not too distant future.

Lastly, NaNo is going well, hit 11,548 words tonight and am very slightly ahead for up to and including Sunday. I'm having fun and my idea, while it's completely being evolved and made up on the fly, is still fresh and fun to work on, something I haven't been able to do in awhile, and it's making it easier to chug along.

Other than that, still worried about work, and money (a little, insurance helps there though), and other things, but am doing ok all things considered I guess. Still a little mreh, and sick, which sucks, but the cough and throat were better today. Here's hoping tomorrow they're better again and eventually they'll be gone altogether. Off to bed now as tomorrow's a busy day, but the rest of the week shouldn't be too bad after that. Of course I totally just jinxed myself there, heh.

Most of you have probably already read my wife's entry about the same, but yeah, no coverage for Igor flooding damage. Which, well, there were people who lost their entire homes, their vehicles, so many other irreplaceable things, and we were pretty lucky, but still. There are government claims available I believe and we'll look into them if we qualify.

The biggest expense for us, aside from now having to replace the flooring in the basement (which arguably had to be done anyway, or will be an improvement at any rate), is the thousands of dollars to dig a ditch on a grade in the back, fill it with crushed stone, a perforated pipe for carrying water away, some weeping tile, then filling that back up with more crushed stone and covering it back up again. It'll (hopefully) prevent any future flooding down the road, which shouldn't happen any time soon, but at least we're prepared if it ever does. And it's improvement to the land too that'll carry with it if/when we sell the property down the road, but it's still a hit up front that wasn't anticipated. Not that there's anything for it, but here's hoping the government will help with some of it or at least some of the damage since the insurance company sure as hell isn't doing anything for anyone.

Jimmy Eat World icon since they have a new album out today, which I hope Wal-Mart out here actually will carry. >.>

In other obvious news, wrestling with money problems really sucks. Things sort of came to a head last night when I sat down with everything in front of me, checked balances online and whatnot, and realized just how bad things have gotten. Not irrevocably bad; I have a Plan and will be ok, I know, nothing's falling apart here or anything, it's just starting to get out of hand and now's the time to set things right. A big cause of it, for which there's nothing for it now, was losing my assistant at the end of July and August basically being a dead month for billings. It's like it never existed, it's pretty sad, but again, nothing for it now. I'm just billing everything that moves at this point and that'll help, plus these last few months of the year - with everyone wanting to get things moving / done by the end of the calendar year - are usually great for business, if overly busy / taxing in general.

So it'll be ok, I suppose I just got a big wake up call. Which, hey, sometimes you need, me specifically. When you have a bunch of Blu-Rays you haven't even opened, for example, and see an ad for what was a mediochre movie at best coming out today (Get Him To The Greek, btw, which has the faintest, scarcest ties to Kristen Bell / Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and your reaction is "omg WANT" then yeah, there's a problem, haha. Which is something I'm working on fixing, starting with not letting myself pick that up today (or ever, maybe XD).