I hate the sittuation that I am in right now, and I can’t help but feel paritally responisible for it
We are BARELY making it from paycheck to paycheck. i’m talking..scraping by…
David’s Hours got cut back in the fall right after we moved and now he’s down to 32hrs a week. which hey, don’t get me wrong it’s great he has a job but..he doesn’t make that much an hour to start with. but when your 300-4oo bucks short every month…well..it gets tough
The reason that I feel that alot of this is my fault has nothing to do with the fact that I don’t have a job (and do not go there with me. there are valid reasons that i dont work, and that is all that i’m gonna say on the subject at this point)
I was the one that wanted to move back to our old apt. place. This put us 50 more bucks in rent a month, and doubled the travel time to/from david’s work.
when we moved though david was still getting 40 hrs a week.
However
David does tend to waste alot of money going to his mom/brothers on the weekend. Not that i’m saying he shouldn’t go. My thing is..to go to his moms is 45 minutes ONE way. thats an hour and a half round trip. and sometimes. he goes 3 days a week…and most of the time 2. I think he should limit it to one. Thats a. alot of wear and tear on the car and b.lot of gas that is being used
Another thing is we eat out alot. still. not as much as we used to, but.. still. maybe ONCE a paycheck or something would be more of what we should be doing.
and..of course me and my wineo habit lol. .. I should really cut back on that stuff for reasons other than money…
david is also BAD about randomly going to walmart and buying stuff that I don’t know why he buys. I mean you send him out for a lettuce head and he comes back with 5 bags of random JUNK …
We have got to somehow get things under control. I’m gonna try my darndest to start writing for demand studios. … I hope I can do it… I need any kind of freelance work that I can get. Paid blogging, etc.
The thing is david’s job is dead. He works at a rock quarry// with the economy..well um.. yeah they aren’t doing ANYTHING. The company he works for has basically just been letting them come out there and do nothing for a really long time.
The mountain quarry that is within the company is BOOMING and they sent my dad and another guy up there to work …i’m talking the regular employes up there are getting 50 hrs a week..(5 days.10 hourseach) They have gave my dad a company truck and paying him extra for travel.It takes him almost 2hrs one way to get there. They even want him to work on fridays which for him would make 58 hrs a week.
I am just worried that david will get laid off this fall/winter ..that is just how it looks at this point. I really wish they’d send him to the mountains. 40 hrs. + 18 in overtime ? YES PLEASE.
another option? send him up there on fridays. thats the day that he is off…that would make up the 8 missing hrs + 2 overtime
and finally a 3rd solution which sounds weird but would work
let him work one week and collect unemployment the next..that takes us to only missing 50 bucks a pay period. instead of 150!
I mean we get our bills paid. most part..(we tend to keep forgetting this one credit card that we don’t use anymore..BAH)
My credit card spending however has went off the chain. used to be david paid TONS on the cards when we could. now we can’t.
The part that really sucks is NOT KNOWING.
I mean is it any wonder I don’t sleep worth a shit? I worry constantly abotu what is going to happen.
I mean if david went fully on unemployment..we are so so so screwed. we would never ever ever be able to stay here.period.
By no means would I be homeless. My parents would let us stay with them but..really..who wants that? I SURE DON”T!! I would loose sam if i had to go there too. and be damned I do NOT want to loose another pet.
well i could probably ramble more on this. and probably will. but for now i’m gonna cut it short. i’m up at 9 am hunting for ways to make money so.. yeah. if you read this/comment I appreciate you
If anyone has any suggestions or contact info that they can share with me i’d be forever greatful. I am an English major who also has a teaching degree background (didn’t graduate but was getting close) and an background in medical office admin..(i have a degree in that)