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"I have had the weirdest couple of weeks. I know I mention (a lot) that money is tight, but it&amp;#039;s really painfully so right now. I get paid next week, but the paycheck is already dedicated 100% (and then some) to bills, with nothing left over for gas or food. I had to borrow fabric softener from a neighbor because I couldn&amp;#039;t justify that $4 for something that wasn&amp;#039;t food or gas. It&amp;#039;s that bad. Really. But strange things have been happening\u2026. I had to pay my half of a field trip fee for the kids (they attend a super cheap day camp run by our town), and when I went to pull the money out of my purse and give it to the director, an extra $10 fell out. I have no idea how it got there. I didn&amp;#039;t have it before \u2013 I know because I counted the money three times. Then I found some old scratch-off lottery tickets in a drawer that were winners. It wasn&amp;#039;t much, but $12 certainly helps. I came home from work with a little over a half a tank of gas yesterday. This morning, I was between 3/4 and full. I thought it might just be because the driveway is sloped and once I started driving and the fuel evened out in the tank it would change. It didn&amp;#039;t. In fact, it didn&amp;#039;t go down, even after my 41 mile commute in to work. Anna let me know very last minute that her friend was having a birthday party. I have no money to buy a present for the kid. I wasn&amp;#039;t sure what I was going to do. Then I had to put some clothes in David&amp;#039;s closet, and when I did, something fell off the shelf and hit me on the back. It was a girl&amp;#039;s perfume-making kit that I&amp;#039;d bought for Anna \u2013 it was a duplicate of the same gift she got from her father, so I had put mine up on the shelf, thinking it might be re-gifted. As I perused the shelf further, I found a really cool tee-shirt I&amp;#039;d bought for Anna ages ago (and forgot to give her) with the tags still on it and everything \u2013 her friend will love it. I always keep a stockpile of wrapping paper and gift bags, so that is done. Cost to me: Zilch. Work had a huge picnic, and there were tons of burgers, hot dogs and chicken breasts left over. Since I helped organize it and cleaned up afterward, guess who got to take it all home? This is getting bizarre. None of this is a windfall \u2013 and I&amp;#039;m still concerned about the gas tank stretching, but all of this is timely and filling in monetary gaps in a freakish way. I&amp;#039;m not complaining, but what is going on? Am I finally getting some good karma? Have you ever had something like this happen to you? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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