Today is my first day off in a week and I had class tonight. I came home from class, cleaned the house, yelled at the girls for leaving the mess, harassed my husband about not making enough money and now I am miserable.
We had a rough weekend because Saturday morning something broke on the furnace. One of my husband's friends came to look at it and said he could fix it but not until Monday. He thought maybe if we called around someone else could fix it that day, but they would probably charge us hundreds more dollars, so of course, we waited until Monday. We borrowed a bunch of space heaters and thank god the house didn't burn down. We had no hot water so I couldn't really cook anything. We went to the Y to take showers. For once I was glad I had to work all weekend because it was kind of awful in the cold house.
Anyway, it cost $722 yesterday to fix the furnace. Thank god we have a little emergency cash for things like this, but I swear, a couple more things like this and all our emergency cash will be gone. Oh and then yesterday our stove started making weird noises (it's really old) and so I think it's about to die. I am praying it lasts until we get our tax refund back, but just in case, I am keeping an eye on Craig's List for used electric ranges.
I have to say, I hate it that I live like this - scraping through one disaster after another. I went to college for god's sake - but I know my experience is pretty typical of folks today. I wonder if things really will get better with President Obama? What would help me would be if we got to keep a little more of our pay....and if there was national health care so my husband didn't have to stay at a job with low pay just for the benefits. And if it was cheaper to go to school or easier to get loans so I could get more education and make more money.
Both my kids who are supposed to be sleeping are now on my lap singing the alphabet.
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