I know how to handle my biznazz!

YANIAG. ELM is a bitch.

Anyway, that’s my little cryptic shout out. what what?!

Anyway… it’s Wednesday! I got paid today. One of my last full paychecks *sigh*

I’m trying to not think about it.

I’m already cutting things out to save.

Removing the second phone from my cell service wil save me about 30 bucks or more.

I may go back down to only 1 netflix movie at a time, but that’s only 4 bucks and really… yeah… it’s not a big deal.

i’m mainly hurting in that I can’t save up the $500 a month I used to before. That entire $500 is GONE BABY GONE.

So I’m trying to figure out how I can save up at least half of that, and I may be able to if I’m really frugal. (I haven’t saved these last few months because I’ve been an idiot. ha ha… )

No more dinners out for a while. Which will suck. I suppose when Baboo wants to treat, we can go, but no more of that.

I think I can still squeeze a Mcdonalds trip in every two weeks. My  kids enjoy that, and I remember being a kid and that being something so fun… so I want to give them that.

It’s just gonna be squeezy for a bit. But with them going to a traditional school schedule, ti should be a big help.

I can probably save a bunch of money from income taxes next year and that will be their summer daycare money.

I’m just thinking about THIS summer.

One month is basically covered… but August, not so much.

The cheapest I can find comes out to about $300 dollars a week… which would be $1200 dollars (that’s for both boys though)… I will probably have about half of that… ha.

ARGH.

So we’ll see.

Maybe my step mother will watch them for August too, but maybe she won’t… I don’t know. It’s all… rough. I still have some time to shop around and I need to call the place that is near my house to see what their rates are… we’ll see… *sigh*

ANYWAYYYYYZ….

i also learned that the furlough days are going to require them to change our work schedules (It’s a rumor, but a pretty reliable one) so I lose my 9 hour schedule. I was sorta looking forward to just taking a day off every week… but they are going to make it so that we work 8 hour days and get every other friday off. What sucks about that is that it’s the opposite friday from the one I have now. I was planning some vacation to correspond with my current Friday, but now I’m sorta just screwed and I’ll have to take another day of vacation to cover it.

It’s really annoying… but it is what it is. I still have a job. I’m spoiled rotten as it is!

 I should be able to survive while my kids are in school. It’s just the OUT OF SCHOOL time I’m worried about. I might really have to chat with my step mom and maybe I can work out a schedule where she watches them every other week in August and I may have to take the last bit of my vacation to watch them… or a leave without pay and just worry about rent and bills for a while… which would be sorta rough, but I can probably get a loan deferrment for the bills I’m still in good standing with for one month if needed.

There are all sorts of creative ways to handle this madness… and that is what I’m going to do… HANDLE IT.

Oh well, thanks for trudging through yet another boring "my life is going crazy" rant. I guess I have to get it out of my system first thing.

I do have a few things I want to rant about, but it’s hard to really say anything at this point.

I’ll be back later…