VERY involuntarily, I find myself back to needing to ask for prayers for myself & my husband...as we find ourselves once more financially between that proverbial rock & a hard place: Mom who passed last Jan. 20, 2011, had somehow neglected to tell us (since 1985, we'd been living together in the 1st floor flat of the 2-flat my Dad[RIP 1992] had inherited from his bachelor brother upon his death in the early 1970s and we've never wanted to move out until after my Mom passed, because she really couldn't get by on her own) that for the past several years, she had NOT been paying her property taxes to the county, AND she had NOT been paying her annual water bill to the city ... and as a result, NOW unless we can 'find' a few thousand dollars to pay those bills, our water will get shut off AND the house will be put on the 'sell for back taxes owed' list by the county. SO, conceivably not only can our water get shut off by mid-month next month, additionally the house and property worth $80,000 can be sold for 'only' those few thousand dollars and we, along with 2.5 families' memories, posessions, heritage items, and the like - along with our rescue dog & 2 rescue cats, will be out on our @$$e$ ... and btw, I am permanently significantly physically challenged/dis-abled by a very rare illness of my entire neurological and circulatory system for which I am treated with oral chemotherapy using Imuran/azothiapine daily, and being told that a stronger chemo (Rituxan) is looming quickly on my treatment horizon per my rheumatolo-gist. As such, since my initial dx in 1994, I have not been able to work in my career of an elementary/HS music educator in the Catholic faith-based school system locally. Additionally, my beleaguered husband, who has a MASTER'S DEGREE in Software Engineering since 2008, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Info. Systems since the early 1990s AND who worked in technology until he lost his job as a Senior Systems Programmer/ Analyst a month after 9/11/01, has only been able to earn wages by working part-time overnights M-F as a bulk package handler for an international shipping/re-ceiving corporation, which also is the only way our family (including our 2 daughters) has any health insurance coverage, and that's imperative not only for myself & my husband, but also for both girls each of whom has a significant chronic illness which requires regular doctor's office visits AND significant pharmaceutical therapy via prescription drugs, also.

PLEASE pray for us all, so we can navigate these treacherous financial and health and employment waters 'safely' and also then 'quickly' find a way to reach the proverbial shoreline without drowning first ... in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit ~ Amen. God Bless You ALL for your kind prayers and thoughts on our behalf.