Obsession

There are two times of the year that I find myself obsessed with money.  Christmas and summertime.  I pretty much want for nothing the rest of the year, or if I want for something, it can be put off til next month…but Christmas, and ESPECIALLY Summer, I just want to DO so much, BUY so much, and everything takes money.  Money I just don’t particularly have.  It really makes me long for the "old days."  Sigh.  I’m kind of resolved at this point that I am going to HAVE to find a way to make some money.  We are going to do the 50 dollars per person pool passes, though now that I saw the psychologist yesterday, I’m even wondering if that’s a good idea.  The girls will be having group once a week, all of them… our entire Thursday afternoon will be spent there, and a good deal of our Tuesday afternoon as well.  Plus, there are library things I want to do, and we have some trips to Santa Cruz planned… Naked Eyes is going to be playing on the beach July 2nd, which is a free show, and I LOVE Naked Eyes, I would have to say one of my top 10 favorite songs is by them, "Always something there to remind me."  An 80s classic.  This year, we’ll be sure to take blankets and jackets.  I’m going to find SOME sort of "beach blanket" at Goodwill when they have a sale at the end of the month.  Goodwill is SO expensive for a thrift store.  Bec and I went there yesterday to scope out the place, and I wasn’t going to buy anything, but then I found a size 15 jeans that were SO cute, I tried them on…. they fit, barely, but hey, they FIT.  So I was going to buy them, despite saying I wasn’t going to buy anything.  Bec was a little peeved, but I really didn’t want to let these jeweled jeans slip through my hands.  Well, got them up to the register, and NO TAG.  The woman told me she couldn’t sell them to me, without a tag, and looking name brand, they were probably more expensive than the usual jeans.  So I told her that I guessed God was making me keep to my promise not to buy anything.  Bec said she had won, and I had lost.   I could not figure that one out, but whatever I guess.  I wasn’t sure why my not being able to get a really cute pair of jeans made HER a winner.

So I find myself obsessed with how to get more money, to go to this sale at Goodwill , because you KNOW everyone’s gonna want a TON of stuff, and we never get out of there without spending 50 dollars minimum, we’re probably looking at 100 this trip.  Even WITH a sale.  I am thinking, just sort of randomly, that I’d like to get 300 dollars a month more somehow.  I suppose I could just go get a part time job.  I don’t know.  With homeschooling, it is HARD to want to have to be working.  Plus, I don’t want anything interrupting my "pool time" lol…  Hey, I’m going to spend 50 dollars PER PERSON on those pool passes, and I’ve been saving up for them since Jan or Feb, it’s not like I want to waste them once purchased.  The pool is 5 dollars per day, so it’ll only take 11 days of going to recoup the cost… if you can call it that.  

School’s almost out anyway, though Sydni is nowhere close to being done and will be working through the summer to "catch up."  I am very hopeful that this will not happen again next year, because she’s already much better about getting her schoolwork done, and is not struggling with it near as much.

Well, it’s 8:15 a.m. and I’ve got to go get everyone up for school. Next year we WILL be starting at 8, but for now, we’re starting at 9, for "my" sake, lol… I notice I am the only one up!  And I’ve been up since 7:30, despite getting to bed at 2, which is nowadays, a rare thing.  I usually get to bed by 11 or 12.  But I had some diet coke too late yesterday, and had a lot on my mind, and had slept about 10 hours the night before.