Last day, travel, Ebay sales

Today will be the last day I get to spend with my current boss. I will be extremely sad to see him go. We will be leaving for Florida tomorrow morning and I will not be back in the office until the 6th of July. He will be leaving ConocoPhillips on the 30th of June. So today will be it. I am sure he knows how all of us that work for him feel, but I will take one final time to express it and say a final goodbye.


Plans are set and we will begin our trip to Milton, FL in the early a.m. We plan on stopping by the farm so Victoria and Maggie can see it but we will have to limit our time there so we can still make it to Shreveport, LA (where we have hotel reservations for the night) at a decent hour. It will only be about nine more hours from there to Cori and Nate’s. I am trying to budget this vacation on a daily basis which is something new. I hope it keeps us from spending too much which is a normal vacation problem.

In order to build our savings accounts I have let our primary checking account drift pretty low – often below $100. That is where it stands right now. We still have to buy a Father’s Day gift for Grandpa and gas up the cars before we leave. I don’t think we will make that without going a little into our savings. It becomes a delicate balancing act to keep on track with a budget; especially when we find a good but on shoes.

We ran into a problem with the sale of Victoria’s phone. It seems the recipient claims that the phone was not in the package when he opened it. We find that very hard to believe, but Mama purchased insurance on the package to cover such a loss. The problem is that Chase is the one who handled the account on Ebay and none of us know how to move forward to correct the situation without being able to access the account. Chase is at summer camp in New Jersey somewhere, out of cell phone range.

Victoria, Mama and I are a little worried because Ebay has demanded we refund the $500 paid for the phone and without the package to play show and tell with the Post Office we are not able to collect the insurance we paid for. Hopefully it will all work out.

Mama and the girls will have to come back to Amarillo from Florida on their own since I will be flying to Houston on the evening of the 26th. She is dreading the trip but Victoria and Maggie are trying to put her mind at ease about it. After all, all three of them can drive. All three of them have AAA in case something does happen –which we all hope is not needed.

Mama is still recovering from the burn she got the last time we were at the beach. Hopefully we learned our lesson.