so we saved that bird... and then the rest of the week happened

You'd think saving a creature's life would get you some good karma points or something. But alas, it didn't seem to work that way. Shawn was just at the start of the really miserable cold/flu thing that I had the week before so the rest of our Easter weekend didn't look too promising and then Sunday happened. Sunday I got 3 phone calls in a row from the bank saying that a debit card had been compromised once again. As the first call rambled away in my ear I checked our bank balance. Well, look at that. Some bastard took almost $900 of our money and we're in over draft again. Lovely. I hung up as the call ended and the bank called back (all the calls are automated). We got a call for almost every transaction the bastard made while taking out our cash.So, Easter Monday, where I was supposed to hang out and do nothing in jammies all day and Shawn was going to drag himself into work, sick as a dog, we actually headed out to the bank and filed our left report. You know, almost exactly a month after having this happen to us the first time. And with the new card. The bright side is that the bank reimbursed our money right away again, the down side was on Sunday morning we were $60 in overdraft and at midnight we were about to have the mortgage and two insurance payments come out of that account. You can't call these places on a Sunday and say "um, hi, we were robbed, so we can't pay you yet" and you especially can't call anywhere on Easter Sunday. But when we went to the bank machines to change pins and whatnot, I transferred enough to get our account out of OD and it had a whopping $0.87 in it. I didn't want to transfer the money to cover the payments out of our savings account because what if they took more? So at 5 to midnight Shawn did an online transfer and then checked at 5 after midnight to make sure that it was just the payments that went through and not some nefarious neerdowell.New rule in our home - never use debit. We'll take out enough money for the week for each of us. Groceries will be done on credit and I will pay it off right away. No more debit for us.----The money thing made me anxious, well more so than normal. When I get anxious I tend to focus on other things. So as I was looking for some tax-related paper it prompted me to take all the boxes and piles of bills and important papers and start to organize them at about 5PM on Easter Monday.The kitchen floor was a large enough space for me to lay out everything in their own piles. Bills, bills, bills, taxes, city stuff, more bills, bank statements. Fun times. Shawn helped me out and then by ten to six it led to the realization that we really, really needed to buy a filing cabinet. We'd been talking about it for YEARS. Mostly we tossed a bunch of papers into a rubbermaid container and it's not sorted. No, this photo doesn't even cover the stuff in the containers! Turns out Staples (not called that here) is open until 9PM Monday-Friday. So we thought, ok, cool, we'll go. But we had a kitchen floor full of delicious paper and Annie was eying it hungrily. What to do?Nice barricade, huh? It was very creative. It worked. But it was so ridiculous that I had to take a photo before we left. Heh.Not wanting to spend billions of dollars at Staples (which I totally could if I was able to because I LOVE that store. Mmmm, office supplies. *swoon*), we picked up some no-name brand file hangers and folders, we picked up one pack of no-name brand letter-sized envelopes so I can better keep together the many years of tax papers I have in a box. And we got to of these little plastic boxes called "The Really Useful Box". According to the paper in the box, if we had four of them we could hold up a Mini Cooper. That IS useful!So all the stuff on the kitchen floor is now in that box. I was going to make label at work this week but the work week kicked my bottom and wore me out and I had no free time and we had a bunch of stuff going on in the evenings. So next week. And this weekend I plan on tackling the other random papers in the containers. I like organization, I just never have time to do it!---We also seem to have The Skunk back in our yard. We need to skunk-proof this spring. Before everything starts to grow and bloom and we can't see the bottom of the fence anymore. Shawn went out to check the yard before letting the dogs out after a walk (I know, redundant, but my dogs are weird) and came back in saying the skunk was at the bottom of the stairs just hanging out. Fun.But we saw bunnies on our walks this week! I need to start taking my real camera because the iPhone isn't the best photo-taker in the dark. There's a block we pass that seems to be bunny-filled. Why can't we have bunnies? Why do we have to have skunks?You can click to enlarge the photo, which I lightened considerably so you can even see the little blob that is the bunny. As I said, need to bring my camera with me, iPhone just doesn't cut it in the dark!I was able to get fairly close before it started to sneak away. I let Shawn hold both dogs so I could try and get a better photo. Jinx wanted the bunnies. I don't think Annie even knew why we had stopped.Then we saw this other one sitting across the street. It was looking a lot like a chocolate Easter Bunny. I thought it was a decoration until it ran away.---And lastly, Annie hasn't been doing all that great. She's having a ton of trouble on our walk (which isn't that long or far) and she's not been eating. Although Jinx isn't eating either and I am not sure if it's because they are being picky eaters or he's not eating because Annie isn't eating (often he'll start his food after she's done) or if Annie isn't well. I don't know. Her cough is worse and more constant since February, although we had a very early thaw and that might have just increased her allergies. I don't know. She's just suddenly OLD. It's like she turned 12 and got OLD on the same day. Worries me.