Just Call me Scrooge
I’m not at all into the holiday spirit this year. Bah humbug.
Everything was going quite well until the beginning of October when my freelancing income was cut by more than 1/2 due to lack of assignments. I’ve been trying to work in other areas to pick up the slack but it’s totally not cutting it. Everyone knows that money doesn’t buy happiness, but it sure does eliminate a lot of stress and right now I could use a nice reduction.
Randy is looking for a job and has applied to at least 15 different places and he’s registered at a temp agency. He’s going to the other one on Monday to hopefully secure a job of some type soon.
I really don’t like blogging about money stress because it seems all “woe is me” but it just really sucks that I’ve gone from paying my bills 2 weeks ahead of time to paying my rent late and receiving shut off notices from my electric company. :-\ (Who is also responsible for my heat). Before anyone asks, yes we’ve applied for HEAP and are waiting to see if we were approved.
I have about $75 in gift cards I’ve earned through SwagBucks in the past few months and I’m going to be using that for Gracie’s Christmas presents. I’ve also told my parents that I don’t want anything either. I really don’t. I’m not all about receiving gifts. I just want this stress off my shoulders. I’m not participating in the holiday gift list exchange for obvious reasons. I don’t like to get things if I can’t buy for others. It makes me feel guilty.
On a somewhat positive note, things with Randy, Gracie and I are doing just fine. We are nocturnal and spend most of the day sleeping and night awake, but oh well. Gracie is a total daddy’s girl. Totally random note: She just took my socks off my feet and is now trying to put them on. She also steals daddy’s shoes.
I need to make/send out Christmas cards still. I’m registered with the Lavish Christmas card exchange, but if anyone wants to exchange cards send me an email at silvergirl0007@gmail.com with your address and I’ll reply back with ours.
I have secured an A in both of my criminal justice courses but it is overshadowed by my lame psych professor’s policies that are going to land me with a C. We had a research paper for 15% of our grade due on Nov 19th which had to be uploaded to the blackboard (which I did), but we also had to mail a physical copy to him. I never mailed the physical copy and received a 0. Bogus. It’s an online class. It shouldn’t be dependent on physical materials. So that immediately places me in the “B” range. Unless I get a perfect score on my final (which is Saturday), I’m going to be getting a C. BOO and PFFT.
With that, I’m going to say bah humbug and who knows when the next update will be. I hope we at least get snow for Christmas.