There are limits to my abilities
Wednesday, 17 May, 2006
Feeling rather down in the dumps today. Last night I made the stupid mistake of looking at our budget for the year and I discovered that we are running at a deficit of about $70 per week for the entire year. I suppose it was always way too optimistic that I would be able to earn us an extra $440 a month to cover counselling fees (or even an extra $260 a month as we've been able to get a little bit back through the Allied Health thingummy—or will get back once those stupid forms are sorted out) but I think the thing that really broke the bank was the $700 we forked out for Ben's textbooks. I keep kicking myself for feeling sad about the fact that I worked so hard and it still didn't cover everything (I know it's not my fault and that I did all I could short of driving myself to exhaustion or breaking up my marriage) but all I end up with are bruises. It does put yesterday's delightful frolic into perspective though.
Anyway, at least the question's answered: we can't survive with me working just four days a week. I need to work five. Tonight MM will make a decision whether they can employ me for an extra day. If they can, I have to work out what to do next. If they can't, I'll be trying to hold onto my three jobs for a little while longer and going slightly crazy. Maybe we can space out Ben's counselling a little more. Maybe we will have to cut the giving.
Maybe today wouldn't be so bad if I weren't faced with the prospect of indexing DBK III (which still hasn't come back from layout; I feel like I'm waiting to be executed) and if HE 10 weren't still hanging over my head.
Current:
Bible: Isaiah (ESV) 28/09/2010
seen: Tropic Thunder 26/09/2010
seen: The Life of Mammals 24/09/2010
seen: What a Girl Wants 19/09/2010
seen: Jerry Maguire 19/09/2010
seen: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 06/09/2010
seen: Tomorrow Never Dies 05/09/2010
seen: Nanny McPhee 28/08/2010
read: Mercury (Hope Larson) 27/08/2010
read: Spellcheckers Vol 1 (Jamie S Rich, Nicolas Hitori de, Joelle Jones) 16/08/2010
read: Solipsistic Pop Vol 2 (Solipsistic Pop) 16/08/2010
read: Chiggers (Hope Larson) 15/08/2010
seen: Josie and the Pussycats 14/08/2010
seen: Mr & Mrs Smith 14/08/2010
seen: Step Up 2 13/08/2010
Blinks:
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
Online magazine that publishes fairy tales that are not reworkings of old tales.
Journal that publishes fairy tale writing.
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My solution: don’t budget. Life is too short!
Hear, hear. When I used to budget I couldn’t afford soap. I stopped and managed to see most of the movies that were out at the time. Same income.
Not that I’m saying this is a policy to live by…
But where does wisdom fit in? Is it necessarily wise to keep on living the way you are if you are operating at a deficit of $70 per week? Soon you’ll go broke!
That was the odd thing - there should have been a deficit, but there never was. I accepted it as one of those mysteries-one-should-not-enquire-to-deeply-into.
Then last year I decided to keep better track of translation income and realised ‘Oh. That was where it all came from. Probably.’
I can spell “too”.
give up smoking Karen: that will save at LEAST 70 bucks a week.