My finances are getting low with my home not sold so I was going to turn to my 401K as a last resort.  I worked hard to start that savings and invested 20K of my own working money.  It was at 30K and I figured I would take the 50% loss and take 15K to survive another year if I need to if the home isn’t sold by January.

I made the dreaded call to see what my funds went down to and they are now at 8K!!!  Good thing I am on antidepressants or else I would have had a mini breakdown.  

I have no place to pull from.  No credit cards.  They are stopped until the house is sold and then will be paid off.

I receive 663.50 a month from my ex to live on.  My monthly expenses are as follows:

car lease: 332.00
health insurance: 475.00
drug costs: 150.00 (would be 1500 without insurance)
therapist: 40.00
car insurance: 120.00
rent: 500.00

I had some extra money initially; but that is almost gone.
I am applying for disability;  because I can’t work at this point.  

I have borrowed from my Mom.  She has the money; but my father is very conservative about her taking it out.  I can pay her back once my home is sold.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do.  I thought of borrowing against the home; but I don’t think I can do that with the legal agreement in place.  My ex lives there and pays the bills for it as per our agreement until it is sold.

Any ideas would be helpful.

Dianne

http://www.cuteoverload.com/

This site has some really cute animal pictures.

In the cute or sad section I noticed that they mentioned Rupert.  For those that don;t know the post it was about a fawn that was delivered from a deer that had been hit by a car.  It turns out, on this site, the Rupert passed away also.  Sad.  I guess his Mommy missed him too much and wanted him to join her in heaven.

Hugs-
Dianne

http://www.lifegem.com/

This is one of the most unique things I have seen.
It takes the carbon from a loved ones remains and turns it into a diamond.  Pet lovers can do it for their pets.

http://video.aol.com/

Wow, I have only been on a little more than a week.  Yikes, I really missed having conversations and interactions.

Hugs-
Dianne

I am thinking about getting a small tattoo as a symbol of the start of my new life.  I was thinking of a small lotus flower because I like what it symbolizes.  I am just not sure where to put it.  I want it discrete.  I don’t want to have to worry about covering it up.  I just don’t know what part of my body doesn’t plan on stretching anymore.  It is a big decision and pretty permanent so I have been putting a lot of thought into it.  At one point I though of pointing a cat on my shoulders.  I have attached the picture.  Any thoughts???  

Hugs-
Dianne