So, things have been a bit rough financially for about 6 months now.  I just recently had to get into my "piggy bank" which is a large Yukon Coffee Can; obviously so that I can take the lid off and steal the quarters out of it for car wash and meter money.

 I humbly took it into the credit union and as I was walking in there I was thinking, "Another humbling experience"  but it's also been worse so I wasn't too mortified.  I dropped all my change into the change machine thinking I had saved about $200.00.  I got my receipt along with a canadian penny it had spit out only to discover that I had saved $43.06.  I humbly took my money and left the Credit Union.  And then I had a flashback;  it was 2002 and I was not in a good place.  In fact I had gotten wrapped up into Cocaine and was trying to hold a job down hoping nobody would notice my spinning out of control.  So, my even more humbling experience was when I took my piggy bank into the Credit Union which by the way;  was a sandwich ziplock bag so I've upgraded my piggy bank so that's a positive, right?  I'm walking in so embarrassed that I'm hiding the bag to cling onto my dignity; and the bag breaks and loose change is everywhere!  Now if you can imagine me on my hands and knees picking up pennies and then 2 people came up to find me scraping the cement for the only gas money I had at the time; got on their hands and knees to help me.  Not THAT was humbling and one of my many "rock bottoms".  So when I thought about that experience I realized that things have been worse in my life and that I know I can weather this storm and get through this.