A dunce is "a person who is slow at learning; a stupid person". That is how I felt after realizing what my mistake had been. Sheesh!
Yesterday morning I sat down here at my desk to pay bills online. Got to my website and to verify I am who I am, they would send me a code # via email. Ok, I've done this before. I got the #, put it into the appropriate box on website, then they asked for my pin # for a certain account. I knew what it was and started typing it in, but wasn't getting anywhere.
I decided to go to the bank, which fortunately for me, isn't far from home & I had to make a deposit anyway. I explained my situation at the bank, the nice young lady did her best to help me, told me something I should try, so I went back home. (On the way home, I stopped at the Salvation Army thrift store, will tell about that on down in this post.)
On getting home I decided since it was a bit cooler and although it had rained a bit during the night, the grass was dry enough for me to mow. So that's what I did, then had lunch and got into my banks website again to try what she suggested. Still didn't do the trick. I called the help # was told it would take at least 30 minutes to be able to talk to a real person. Back to the bank I went. Saw another young woman, told her my tale, then the other young lady came up and they were perplexed. I was becoming very frustrated by this time as I'd never had this problem before. The second young lady called the help #, went through all of the options like I had done, and left my ph # for them to call me.
I came back home, got a drink of water and sat down at my computer, put on some soothing instrumental music on you-tube, said a prayer for help and patience and started coloring in a little book I had gotten at the SA thrift store. This little book I bought with two others, all three for 38 cents.
As I was sitting here 'calming down', it dawned on me what my problem was. I had even said at the bank that it was probably something simple, and it was, hence my feelings of 'feeling like a dunce'. For years, the only way I had been using my pin# was on the little touch pad at the bank, which had letters and numbers. The pin # has always been two letters and two numbers to me, when in fact, it is 4 #'s. Needless to say, I got back into my banking website, got another verification code #, used it and my 4 # digit pin #, and YAHOO, YIPPETY DOO DAH, I was in. I cried a few tears and did what I had wanted to do hours before. I was feeling so dumb, yet so thankful to God for having my problem dawn on me.
I was totally wound up from all of that you can be sure. It took awhile to calm down totally.
Now, when I stopped at the Salvation Army thrift store after first bank visit, I looked around at shirts and dresses first, nada, headed back to the linens to see what might be there. Saw two grayish blue pillow cases hanging, 99 cents each, then saw the top sheet, $4.99, didn't see the fitted sheet, until I looked down on the floor, it had slipped off the hanger. It also was $4.99. It was senior citizens day so it would be 25% off and the set was 100% cotton, and a full size, which is what I need. I then found 3 books, and headed for checkout. At checkout, I said I was a sr. citizen, she said that doesn't matter, everyone gets 50% off today. Wow, I paid $6.34 cents for it all.
After my banking fiasco, I checked online for 300 thread count sheets by Sonoma. Found them and they are $44.95 for a sheet set.
I wasn't even going to go to a thrift store yesterday, I 'was' going to go to Aldi's and Publix, until my banking sign in problem. But the thrift store is on my way home from bank so I stopped. God blessed me with goodness, not all that grand in the over all scheme of things, but a big deal blessing to this 'FlowerLady'.
You never know what is going to happen in a day, plans can change from one minute to the next. There's a scripture reference in the Bible found in James 4:12-15 that says the following:
"Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
Ever since my dear husband went to be with His Creator, I say 'God willing' with just about any plan I make, because we really don't know what is in His plan for us.
The other day a saying came up on a blog, and I don't remember where I read it, it said something like this:
Make your plan list in pencil, and carry an eraser.
So, with that, I am saying about today's plans, God willing I plan to, wash dishes (I'm the dishwasher), fold and put away 2 basket loads of clean laundry, vacuum up dust/cat and my hair/bunnies, wash another load of laundry including new sheet set, and who knows what else.
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GREAT NEWS about Lavon. His wife Shana texted me that he walked to and from the door of his hospital room yesterday and color has returned to his foot and hopefully his toes will turn to normal coloring also. If all goes well, he'll be home tomorrow. Continue to pray for his healing, and for Shana as she lovingly cares for him and works her full time job.
Thank you all for your friendship, your love, prayers, encouragement, your kind comments, all a blessing to me.
FlowerLady
