C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)

Sidebar: Looka here, if one more person sends me a threatening message about me not posting everyday we are going to fight...I am trying..well not hard enough, but I will endeavor to do better.  One of lovely new Tweeps Misha or @TheFabChick as she is known in the twitter world, offered me some lovely advice (Click on her name or her Twitter Link to experience sheer fabulousness, I love her tweets and her blog is a great read for any fashionista out there). 

I posted a tweet that said:


"I'm such a fair-weather blogger. I write a good one and wonder how I will ever top it...I need to be more committed."

Her response was hilarious and true:

  

@cocoanaturale gotta marry it! put a ring on it and say till death do you part with it... lol

I realize that she is right, I have always known that I needed to develop some type of sticktoitiveness to be a blogger and I am up for the challenge.  I love to write and surely with the random things that take place in my life, I wouldn't believe half of it if I did not put it here for the world to see!

Now to the regular scheduled programming....In my last blog, I shared that something crazy happened to me yesterday (as usual) so I guess what better time then now to tell it.  The story starts back in November when I dropped out of school, allegedly because I was heart broken and love sick -- truth is, I was being lazy and I did not feel like pressing through personal issues and handling my business.  Anyway, I left school and chilled for a few months thinking I could not go back until I payed for the classes that I dropped. Fast forward to last week...I received an email from my old academic counselor encouraging me to come back so I called her and told her my situation and she signed me up for classes for the next semester which starts next week pending a talk with financial aid.  To make a long story short, financial aid cleared me for re-entry, stated that I did not indeed owe a balance and that I could start school as planned.  I was so excited, I love school.  I am a straight A student and I enjoy every bit of the process so I logged right into my student portal to look at my degree progress and snoop around.  In the midst of my record review, I happened upon a section that listed all of the financial transactions on my account and I noticed a transaction listed that said stipend from back in Februay.


At this point I am like...hmmm--what is this, so I call the Financial Aid lady back and she stated that I still had some good old fashioned free money (i.e. Pell Grant) money left in my account and they sent a check to me in February.  I almost dropped the phone! I remembered receiving a letter from them but I figured it was an invoice for the class that I dropped so in true Negro fashion I never opened it. (I know, I know--I am on the road to financial freedom and debt free living, it was just a ghetto lapse in judgment) 


I got off the phone with the lady and decided to run home and see if I could find this letter, now almost 4 months old. It was a 50-50 chance and worse case scenerio they would have just issued another check but I just had to look.  I walked in the door, walked over to where I thought it might, could, hopefully, wished and prayed it would be and guess what---I found it.  


You could have pushed me over with your thoughts.  For four months there was a nice chunk of change right under my nose waiting to be discovered and I could have used it on more than one occasion.  At first I was through with myself for not opening the letter when I got it.  That thought went away when I realized that everything happens for a reason and just think, it was like having a bunch of money in a savings account that you do not see/touch.  Either way, I am glad to have it and it came at a perfect time too, just in time for me to----(tell you tomorrow!!)


Fly is not always easy but it sure is Fun--

Later XOXOXOXOXOXOXO