| Dec. 7th, 2004 @ 09:35 pm One of those things. . . |
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Current Mood:  thoughtful Current Music: The Clash - Train in Vain
So, you know when 'one of those things' happens to you? You know, a coincidence that maybe you put too much stock into, but makes you feel good anyways?
Had one of those today. This morning, actually.
Last night, we hit the bottom of our money. Well, not so much our MONEY but our cash on hand. I had enough to get the snack for F. in the morning, put aside bagel and newspaper money (I pick it up for those two men I took care of this summer) and that was about it. I started off this morning with nothing, and no paycheck until tomorrow. I had food in the house, so we weren't hungry, and no bills were due, and I had a little bit on my debit card, but still, no money, really.
So whenever this situation happened in the past, we would go to Maureen for money. It was always $20, it was always day before payday/workman's comp check/unemployment check, and it was always the first person we paid back. And of course, yes, I thought, ok, if Maureen was here, we'd be around the corner borrowing $20. (And what is really funny is whenever we borrowed from her we would not only get the expected payment to pay her back, but some unexpected windfall, like a check from a relative or a payment for something, or whatever.)
I had scrounged some change last night, too, to get some M&Ms;, had been all over the house and my desk putting all the change in one place, on the shelf above my monitor, with some papers, my inhaler, Dan's UN ID, and some other stuff.
Well, this morning he had to go to the UN (he has been going from site to site, today was the UN, so he needed the ID, otherwise he just takes his bag and hardhat and goes). He went to my desktop, grabbed his ID, and asked if I knew about the $20 there. No, I did not. And I am really good with keeping track of cash on hand, $20 would have been noticed if it went missing.
If he didn't have work at the UN, we would have not seen it today. He has been working between 3 job sites, and today happened to be the UN. Furthermore, I had already been digging around there when I was looking for change. That $20 was not there.
So he smiled and said, "See? Aunt Maureen is still looking out for us!" I made sure to tell her children, too. Without getting morbid or depressing, I do try to let them know how important she is to us, and how important they are to us.
Oh yeah, someone should have told Dan that he didn't HAVE to go to the UN. It was raining too hard to work, (one of those jobs where they need it dry) and no one was there. They should have called or let him know when they let him off early the day before because of rain, not to come in this morning. Of course, if they did that, we wouldn't have found the money, either.
Could be just a plate of shrimp, or maybe Maureen IS looking out for us. I prefer to throw logic to the wind, and believe in the latter. |
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