Another day, Another dollar

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DOLLAR...
Spent THAT IS.

It seems like we spend $30 bucks here, and $40 there every single day. And that's when we don't have any groceries to buy or other needed stuff for around the house. I keep wondering how this miscellaneous stuff adds up so fast...

Today it was paying a doctor copay for me. I woke up with a UTI. Even though it's only the 4th UTI I think I've ever had, I knew it was bad because it started off painful, it didn't have to build into it. So I dropped the kids off at school and went directly to my doctor's office walk-in clinic. I love having the doctors office with convenient walk-in hours. Basically it's the convenience of an Urgent Care with the cost of a regular doctors office.

The nurse who started off helping me told me how I was the second patient she had seen this morning with a UTI. And this is not for the squeamish or faint of heart. She said the other gal brought her back a couple ounces of blood for her urine sample. I'm thinking no problem, that will not be the case with me. Guess what, it was! Although mine was just pink, but still. That is the first time I've ever had that lovely occurance.

I dropped off my prescription to be filled at the pharmacy. And my intention was to run to The Sports Authority to get Kyle his heart guard and batting glove for baseball and run back to pick up the prescription. Well when I got to the sporting goods place I couldn't find the heart guard. I wasn't even sure what I was looking for. There were no clerks to be found. Tyler was trying on all the batting helmets.

I hurriedly called Laren at his work on my cell phone. He described for me the smallish, diamond-shaped plastic piece that I should be looking for. I'll be darned if I could find it anywhere. So I asked a guy who was looking at a $159 bat if he knew. I figured if someone was looking at a bat that expensive that he must know something about baseball and heart guards. Well, he didn't.

Meanwhile, I lost Tyler. So I ran to the front of the store and told the clerk at the cash registers that my blonde haired 2 year old was missing and please not to let him run out of the store. The store was virtually empty. She said she wouldn't. I went back over to the baseball section with Rilyn and there we found Tyler throwing neon yellow baseballs across the floor.

I grabbed him up and took him to find a clerk to help. The clerk looked and said all of the heart guards were sold out but he could check another store. So while we purchased the licorice I bought for bribery, and the glove, and baseballs the man called around. He could not find another store that had any remaining. Finally, he found one in Superior. It's a ways from where I am but my son needs this tonight.

So I drive all the way over there, get it and head back. Because of the location of the pharmacy where my prescription is waiting, I take an unfamiliar way back and get lost for about 10 minutes before I manage to get my bearings straight.

We got back and the prescription that was supposed to be ready in 30 minutes, still isn't ready 2 hours later!! So we had to wait another 5-10 minutes for that. Thankfully we were at the drive-thru of Walgreens and the kids were asleep. We finally got home with about $38.44 less in my purse plus whatever my copay ends up costing (they will bill the insurance their part first), and whatever the cost of the gas I burned by driving 86 miles.

Why is it that we cannot seem to manage hardly a day without going through money like it is water? And the sad part is, the day is not done and so likely there will be something else we have to get! I think I'm going to go on a spending diet.