Bitches get shit done

Welcome lovies,
It's a new day. We are past the little fall temperature hurdle that happened yesterday (seriously, it was cloudy and 50. I died a tiny bit inside) which obviously prompted me to purchase our first bottle of red wine in months.  Hello? Who drinks red wine in the summer time. No one. That's who.

Anyways, it was delicious. Thanks for asking. My go-to is typically Cupcake brand anything.

I wanted to thank you guys for your support after Monday's slightly sappy and reflective post, ie Pity Party of 1.

The beginning of a new cycle always brings a rush of adrenaline.

So that's what I do.
What have I accomplished thus far? Glad you asked.

I called my gyno back Monday morning. They must be super busy because I didn't get a call back from the Dr. until 8pm that evening. Which, obviously, was a phone call I missed because DUH it's 8pm.
I call back yesterday morning only to talk briefly with the nursing staff. She tells me the Dr. will call me back....again, to which I make a point of explaining the bit of urgency in getting shit in place.

"I'm on Day 4 of my cycle and if you guys want me to start again on Clomid and on the same day, that would be tomorrow. And I don't have a Rx in place. Nor do I have any instructions. Please call me back or I will become a stalker."

Which is exactly what I had to do.  I had to call back around 3pm after my original phone call at 8:30am.  Because NOTHING HAD HAPPENED.
I get the run around and now I have to become a bitch.
I tell them I will simply wait on hold until someone can get their act together and spend 2 minutes speaking with me. My Dr. hops on the phone and we get to chatting.

Out of nowhere she drops a bomb on me.

First, she tells me she wants to up my dosage from 50mg to 100mg. Just because.
I ask her if that means my symptoms will be worse because the post-O pains were pretty bad.
She says yes, and then proceeds to ask if I had a Day 21 Progesterone draw with the last cycle.
No, I didn't.
Because no one bothered telling me it was necessary (way to go Doc!)
Obviously I would have scheduled on to have a baseline had I known it was important.
She resolves to keep me on 50mg and I will need a Day 21 draw.
Totally fine. She calls in the Rx and we are on our way.

I'm a little pissed, honestly. It absolutely makes sense that I should have been monitored in some way and yet, I went against my better judgement to just ask, and instead "left it in the Dr's hands."
I kind of feel like I got jipped out of a cycle. But anyways, onwards and upwards.

In the meantime I have decided to do one of the few things that I CAN control and makes me happy.
Saving money.

I love a good deal.

I decided it was definitely time to refinance our rental property because, although it's in my husband's name, he is rather sluggish to get the ball rolling because he is terrible at paperwork.
Fine. I'll do it. His rate is ridiculous (6%!!!) and I had the idea that we are losing money each month between the rental income and our current mortgage.
What doesn't help is that our taxes went up about $50/month the same month as the renter's moved in.
Again, money lost.

So, I am refinancing the house. We can qualify for the HARP refinance (no money at closing!) and will be locking in a new 20 year loan, effectively saving us $42K over the course of those 20 years.
I am scrambling to gather paperwork this morning and get everything in gear, but we should be closing in 3 weeks and we get to miss a mortgage payment (more savings!!)

Which will be much needed because I need my dream bathroom, remember?

I have also bartered with Comcast to reduce my monthly rate by $50 and will be re-negotiating with our renters to up their rate a tad and maybe lock them in for a multi-year lease.  But I'll leave that to our realtor. I tell him what I want and he makes it happen.

All in all, today has been a win all around.

PS- Have you checked out the Track the Tank tab at the top? The shirt was just in Georgia!! It's making the rounds and I couldn't be more proud of the group of ladies we rounded up to make this journey happen!!

So, tell me, is anyone else as savings crazy as I am? I can't get enough!