August: Moving from Broke to Poor

In the ongoing saga that is our financial state, Adam's new "full-time" job is only working him 1-2 days a week, and now something's happened to unemployment and it's not covering what we're missing in paychecks.

Adam called the unemployment office, but due to "high volume" it could be 2-3 weeks before they call him back.

So we are faced with the situation I dreaded: a month of trying to get by on my paychecks alone. My hope is that my financial aid refund hits our account by the end of August. If it doesn't, I don't know what we'll do, and I can't worry about that right now. I just have to think about the next 4 weeks.

So bills are being pushed off to the last minute. I might even have to use the credit card for one, which would max it back out again, but it's better than having my lights shut off. I'm working from home 1 day a week to save gas. I might even bunk with a friend in Nashville a few times to save gas as well.

Our grocery money is bare bones. It's so bare bones I'm going to attempt to make my own tortilla wheat wraps & Greek Yogurt. I'll let you know how it turns out.

But with all those changes (& some long prayers), we should make it. It's not going to be pretty, but as long as I have God & a plan, I can get through it.

So swimming money was kind of out of the question this week. But Spidey was with us for the weekend, and we had already promised him we'd go swimming. When Adam tried to explain we didn't have the money, Spidey wanted to use his piggy bank money. That really made me sad & determined to find the few dollars needed to swim.

So we went swimming this morning & had a good time.I also made it to the library to swap out my Yoga DVD with another one & a walking DVD. Then I got home & crashed for a 3-hour nap, and I feel a LOT better.

In other news, nothing exciting is going on (and I'm kind of grateful for that). Adam's still trying to find a part-time job for when college starts in 4 weeks (he'll be working a little more than he is now, plus he'll actually know what hours he is working before he gets there each night).

Spidey starts 1st grade next week. He'll meet his teacher on Wednesday & the first full day is Friday (weird, right?). I'm nervous about how he will adjust to the more rigid classroom & slightly longer day. He's been doing really well lately. He's been behaving himself at the babysitter's, and he's really enjoying playing the Wii with me as a reward for good behavior.

And school for me starts in 4 weeks. I'm a little nervous about it. I'm not looking forward to the crazy schedule I'm going to have Sept-Dec. There are going to be some long days. I've also got to push through some of my therapy work before school starts, because I'll have to cut down my visits with my therapist to accomodate classes.