Money and Medical

all topics are about money and medical. Brett has one interview invite so far. And we have been very busy trying to get our any medical taken care of.

Stress is at an all time high.

Porky the Pig

We got our pig today and it cost us 175. It should feed us for awhile. I am sure I could make it last longer, but the men are very excited to eat the meat. They are excited for pork cops.

Rations

First lesson of this economic downfall. Men don't like rations especially meat rations.  The men in house are not particularly fond of me counting and assigning a number of meatball permitted for their bowl of spaghetti.  My oldest son has dreams of hunting and has decided this fall we have to score us some game in order to eat and he will be the provider.  We shall see, but for now we have a whole pig on its way.  Something we arranged for days before our impending doom.

We have food storage and savings set aside. And time will tell just how much we have saved and how much we will used.  Our cars are paid for except our SUV which will be paid for in 2 months.  Just in time as our last paycheck will be grinding to a halt at the same time.

Lemonade

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade right?  Well life just handed us a bunch of sour lemons.  We have joined in with the rest of the unemployed world.  We are just getting over the shock of it all. And word is now getting out that we are those people. You know the ones with out a job, the jobless, neighbors.  So not the easiest thing to tell people either.  For example the neighbor across the street that works at the hospital that your husband has privileges at. It's like, oh by the way,  the clinic let my husband go.  And you know who his boss was right?  Yeah it's a small town where everyone knows your business and that includes who works where and who is not working.  So this is the story of our economic recession.

In other news we just celebrated our 18th anniversary, though there was not much celebrating done. It's is hard to go out and live carefree when all you can think about are kids and bills. August 12th is the first day of no work. Otherwise known as our anniversary. August 13 was also the day of the company annual clinic that we were no longer invited to even though we RSVP.  Life will probably throw in some new surprises. Let's hope not all of them will be sour.