Curiouser and Curiouser

Mary went to bed at 10:00 tonight! Yeah! I can't remember the last time she agreed to go so early! Freedom! However, I've spent the last half hour paying bills--blech! I've started paying $100 to my student loans, and $200 to each of my credit card bills (I have two.) as a way of Mary reimbursing me for helping her. I think I will also write myself a check for a certain amount each month, but I haven't decided how much. I need to look into health insurance to see how much that will cost. I've started writing down everything Mary pays for in a notebook (well, not things like food and necessities). It's funny. Even though I know that Mary has enough money in her checking account, I still have that awful feeling when paying bills. You know, that feeling that there won't be enough to cover this check.

Oh, this is interesting. I finally figured out how to get onto the bank's website to view Mary's acct info, although it calls it my acct info since my name is also on the acct. A CD was showing with the address of Dad's old PO Box. Mom said that he may have had an acct at that bank once upon a time. Sure enough, this is a CD for Gina and me that we didn't know about. It's getting really horrible interest, btw! It's an 18-month CD. Odd, huh? How could he have forgotten about something like that? And the boys have found out that he had some sort of insurance policies on them. They are able to collect it now--not much but still something. Just like the CD. It's only worth about $500--and who knows how long it's been in existance! Very curious how fate works out, huh? If I hadn't had Mary open a new acct and then decided it was time to figure out how to get onto the website then I'd never have found out about that. I wonder if Dad had other CDs with this bank?