Day 2: Thunder Down Under
01 Nov 2008
Well for the first time in I don’t know how long, I go woken up this morning by the sound of rain. It was bucketing down. It hasn’t rained like that here for a long time so it was kind of nice to hear.
Then while I was laying in bed in between dozing and thinking about what I had to do today the thunder started. And that was so loud it actually woke my son up and let me tell you that’s not an easy thing to do.
Of course once the thunder started all I could think about was the fact that I needed to get online so I could do some banking cause I’m down to my last few dollars and still need to do a heap of running around (which means more petrol) plus feed us all between now and my next pay day so the power better not go out.
While living payday to payday isn’t all that unusual for me, it’s been a little while since I’ve been this broke. So I’m annoyed that once again I’ve having to juggle things when it comes to money. Hopefully it’s just a bad patch and I’ll get back in front again soon. Though if nothing else, at least now, as compared to other times I’ve been down to my last dollar, I do actually have the bills paid so I don’t have to worry about getting those nasty letters or the embarrasing phone calls while at work or with friends asking why I haven’t paid such and such yet.
Just watching the news last night and something came on about people struggling to make ends meet and it makes me wonder how if two income earning families are having a hard time keeping on top of things, how the hell are single parents with one income (and sometimes none) supposed to do it. I work, and while I don’t spend money on myself I do spend a lot of extra on my kids - by that I don’t mean the standard feeding, clothing and schooling etc I mean getting them to and from their sport and paying fees etc. with an ex who while he does have the kids occasionally doesn’t actually give me any money toward them.
Like today for instance - it’s Sunday morning so in a minute I’m going to have to get one child to her sport training, while getting my son to his new job (Lol he’s got more money than me) and arguing with the third child about the fact that I can’t afford to get her the new shoes she needs today like I promised cause I just don’t have the extra cash and she’ll have to wait until I get paid again. Which is all well and good, well would be if the training and work were close to home, unfortunately their not. So once I’ve done that I’ll come home for a couple of hours and then turn around and go and pick my son up from work etc. I’m happy that he has a job, in fact I got it for him and honestly don’t mind having to take him to and from - it just pisses me off when fuel is so expensive etc.
Well that’s enough of a ramble for early sunday morning - hell I’m doing well with this NaBloPoMo - I’m two for two so far - here’s hoping I can keep it up.
