Dude, Where’s My Money?

Suddenly, I can’t seem to get my budget to balance.  My income has gone down and my expenses have gone up, but I didn’t think that it was going to effect me as much as it has.
First, my child support has gone down $80-100 a month.  Jim had to pay arrears in the amount of $20 [...]

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I hate grocery shopping

There.  I’ve admitted it.  It’s the first step to recovery, right?  Admitting you have a problem.
I hate spending my precious time walking up and down aisles, comparing unit costs, figuring out if using a coupon for item X is better than buying item Y without a coupon.
I HATE taking my children to the grocery store.  [...]

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Happy Memorial Day!

We are having an impromptu cookout tonight.  Hamburgs and steak are defrosting, picked up some hot dogs for Miss Bekah, macaroni is cooked and cooling, waiting for me to add the rest of the ingredients for my amazing tuna mac salad, onion dip is made, kids will be shucking corn soon, and for desert:  apple-cherry-blueberry pie [...]

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Deep Sorrow

Things will be quiet around here for a few days.  A family friend passed away this weekend.  She was the wife of the boy who took me to my junior prom.

Enfield Woman Dies; Hit By Van Driven By Mother
By VANESSA DE LA TORRE | The Hartford Courant
6:51 PM EDT, May 16, 2009
 
ENFIELD – After [...]

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Verizon Discount

Last week, Shaunna went to Verizon to buy a new charger for her Blackberry.  She told me that she got 25% off because I pay my bill on time every month.  I looked all over their website and I couldn’t find anything about this discount, so I don’t know if it’s a local thing.  But [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day

We are observing a quiet Mother’s Day here.  JJ brought me a bowl of cereal and orange juice to my room this morning at some ungodly hour (7ish.)  This was after I instructed the children last night that they were not allowed to wake me up in the morning.  I told him to put it [...]

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Welcome

I wanted to welcome the two newest readers to my blog – my ex-husband Jim and his new wife, Nancy.  Welcome!  I would love to know from Jim and Nancy, if they have the guts to answer.  Why on earth are you even interested in what I have to say?
I have to say, I was amused [...]

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Learning to say “No.”

Last year, my nephew bought an iPod Shuffle with his birthday money.  Since I already had iTunes loaded on my computer, he came over and we tried to load music on it.  But first we had to download the latest version of iTunes.  Which wouldn’t work on my computer because I still run Windows 2000.  [...]

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Talent Show

Thursday night is the annual talent show at JJ and Bekah’s day care center.  It is the cutest thing to see these kids get out on stage, strut their stuff, proud of all the work and rehearsals they spent over the course of the last few months.
Thursday is Jim’s day.  The day care has been trying [...]

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Protected: Shaunna skipped school

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