Yup, a blur. We installed a new wine buffet in the dining room (purchased with the interest earned on the ING acct), but we can’t afford chairs yet which is putting me at a loss for what we’re going to do about having a gathering at our house for Lovey Girls baptism. I asked my other BFF Li’l A to be Lovey Girl’s godmother so we’re going to have 2 godmothers instead of a g-mother and g-father. This being on one income thing really bites the big one in some ways, but in others it’s great (ie the fact that we don’t have daycare and I get to be with LG everyday).
I was put in charge of paying our bills and I stink at it. I didn’t make big bucks at my old job, but I didn’t really have to budget because I had a healthy salary for an administrative person that is. Anyway I try to be meticulous, but I keep forgetting about charges that are deducted automatically from our account like our oil (grrr) so I pay the bills and think I’m leaving us a couple hundred dollars for the next two weeks until Jameson gets paid and viola we get socked with an automatic withdrawal for the oil. I was so pissed at myself for not realizing. I now have learned the hard negative checking account way. We had a lean 2 week period while we waited for Jameson’s next paycheck since I screwed up by not knowing about the oil deduction. Then we had some coil on our relatively new heater need to be replaced for the generous sum of eight hundred dollars. I called and asked if we could pay cash or work out a payment plan. I was told we had ”reward points” for being a loyal customer and they took three hundred dollars off and are letting us pay in installments (sigh…when it rains it pours). My parents are helping us though this rocky time period by purchasing items for Lovey Girl like diapers, food, child proofing items, etc. They said that they are still working so they are glad to do it, but when they retire they won’t be able to help as much.
Jameson is working overtime so we can try to have more cushion and build our savings again. After April and we have our tax return and the adoption tax credit things will be much easier. I admit I’ve been looking around for part-time work, but Jameson keep dismissing that idea. He doesn’t think it’s a good idea. We’re hardly poor or anything I’m just not used to living so, uh, sparingly. For example, we’ve learned how to make our own pizza with dough we puchased at T.rader Joe’s (we’re mulling over making the dough ourselves, but haven’t done it yet) instead of ordering out or going to my favorite BYO pizza place. Gift cards from friends and family have never been a more welcome sight and I’m learning to use coupons and search for the cheapest prices.
Well, Lovey Girl is again sick with a cold. I know that in a way it’s good for her to catch colds because she has to build up her immunity, but a child with a cold pretty much bites the big one. Atleast now she seems to understand that if I hold a tissue to her her nose the correct thing to do is blow so that’s much better than doing the snot sucker. I keep wondering how she keeps coming down with all these colds and my goodness if she was in daycare she’d be sick constantly. Atleast now we get a week reprieve between ailments. I’m thinking she picked something up at the YMCA where I joined to do weight lifting. I’m the soon to be buff-Merlot, but I’m not doing it to lose weight, just to gain strength. I was weighed at the neuro’s last week and I’m now over one hundred
so he didn’t give me a hard time about the weight loss that occurred when I did IF stuff which he has done in the past because I had lost so much that I didn’t look healthy.
Enough whining about our nonexistant money woes. I hope to be feeling far more comfortable soon with the tax return and Jameson’s annual salary increase so we can think about a sibling for Lovey Girl. I’d rather it be while I’m fairly young, ya know?
LG and her BFF
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