January 23, 2005

Ready for the work week?

Used to be I would just jump out of bed, Iwas always so eady to start my day and now it takes forever to get out of bed-I move like an old woman and I feel like one most days also. The new pain meds aer not working out so well. I wish I could call her and tell her try the 40 oxys again because I think I could handle it now. The cold weather is really making me miserable.

My hands are so sore and swollen they hurt even typing hurts but it seems like there is nothing anyone can do about it for me. It also seems like at times that no one really cares how much I hurt. Other times I think they do and I do not know if it is me or if they really do care and do not know how to show it very well or if they simply dop not know what to do to help me feel better. It is confusing sometimes.

I hope like hell I am in my own home again soon. This being houseguest is driving me crazy!! I want to go home I want to sleep with my dog, I want to have my own stuff around me and I want to be able to just be in my own home. It has been over two weeks and it seems so much longer now, it is driving me crazy.

I was reading a financial planning book (it was one for dummies, which I qualify as when it comes to managing money) and anyway it said to pay yourself first-and to put 10% of your pay in a savings account when you get paid before you cash your check, before you do anything else regarding your finances-put 10% away-hence the term "pay yourself first". I have direct deposit through my work so it was easy to fill our the form and begin to "pay myself first". After you get an amount that your comfortable with take it and buy a few stocks. Do not hire a stockbroker, if they knew so much they would be so wealthy they would not need to work themselves so why pay someone to do what you can research and do yourself. It makes sense to me. I just wonder if once I go on disability if I can still do that because it will be hard to survive on just disability anyway so I imagine it will be even harder to try and save anything. Also we are cutting out most of our cable channels because realistically we do not watch but a few and we need to start saving money wheerever we can. I have also started clipping coupons for the past two weeks and the grocery store wher I go doubles them up to .50 so it is almost a dollar off stuff. I was reading an article about a woman who clips soupons avidly and almost always gets around 150.00 worth of groceries for under 30.00! That to me is incredible. One thing I do not scrimp on is food for the household as the children need to eat balanced meals that are good as well as good for them. But I will use the coupons and I will try vry hard to save money there. We also cut back to generic ciggarettes, something I swore I would never do but when times get tight you do what you have to do. Now if I culd just quit that would be even better!!

Anyway, I will update more tommorow or tuesday. Monday is my 12 hour day so I may or may not update then, depends on how I feel.

Keep smiling :)

Posted by Lisa on January 23, 2005 3:25 PM