We had a slight car malfunction a little while ago. Tom and I only have ONE car, which is pretty old (I think it's a 2000 PT Cruiser) and that Tom is constantly afraid of going out on us. Well, it did. While Tom was driving back to work after lunch, the BRAKES went out on him. OMG!!! But. He's safe. Even though the intersection he was at was ( Read more... )

... to get a little motivation around here??

I did a very short list of things today, which took up ALL of my time ( Read more... )

Tom and I have struggled financially ever since we came to West Virginia. It started badly with no and low incomes and lots of old debt, and in the last few years has gotten ridiculous because of increasing medical bills and prescriptions (I had to pick some up this week that cost upwards of $130 - and that's with insurance - can you imagine what ( Read more... )

I had to tackle our budget again last week. I have no idea how we paid for the car and all these bills every month before. I know it's so cliche to think that we've raised our standard of living to the amount we have to spend, but really, we haven't! So, I explored some things and found a few regular bills that we have now that we didn't have ( Read more... )

I have been working very hard on redoing our budget to incorporate the money we'll now have because the car's paid off. I wasn't able to be as generous to our date nights and the various savings accounts as I'd hoped, but I was able to boost them quite a bit. And, in a few months, our regular checking will start GROWING (gasp!) instead of ( Read more... )

... and I'm addicted to feeling sorry for myself. I have a self-pity problem. I have a problem. I've been pretending I'm a "glass is half-full" kind of person when really all I want is for the world to notice "how well I'm handling that half-empty glass situation ( Read more... )

I can't believe it. We paid off our car this morning. I checked the bank balance this morning, and the tax money was there, so at 9:00 precisely, Tom got up (he stayed home today to make sure everything went well) and calmly did the online payment ( Read more... )

The userpic for today is not the way I feel right now, but it's the way I'm trying to be. Tom & I can have fun if we put our minds to it. We've just been dragged down for so long because of lack of money. We're trying to be optimistic about this car stuff and think in terms of gradually getting ourselves into a better place. I don't know how ( Read more... )

I don't know that I could adequately describe recent events as well as you could get the gist if I just list them. So here goes ( Read more... )