There’s always one.

I damn near lost it at work today.  There’s this woman that sits next to me.  Actually, there’s two, but this one is on my last nerve.  Everything she does annoys me.  She talks to herself.  She types loud.  She can’t even throw away a piece of paper without balling it up, making a ton [...]

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Clothing and kids.

I picked up my two younger children from their father’s yesterday.  (The oldest lives with me full time now, but that’s for another post.)  JJ came out of the house with dried crud on the backseat of his pants.  Shaunna told me she said something about it in front of her stepmother, but she could [...]

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I screwed up

I got complacent with my budget.  I didn’t balance my checkbook last week.  I didn’t go grocery shopping last weekend, so I stopped at McDonald’s for breakfast every morning, ate out for lunch every day, and ordered Chinese one night, and took Shaunna out to Ruby Tuesday’s another.
So when I finally sat down and balanced [...]

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It’s over!!!

The sweet 16 party that seemed like would never come was suddenly here.  And now it’s over.  And I am BROKE, tired and sore.  But Shaunna is happy, so it was worth it.
We start planning this party in August.  Her father took care of the hall rental ($300.)  And he made 2 trays of pasta.
I [...]

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