Today was a starting day. I started out the day waking up slowly, around 10am. Let the dogs out and came back to bed to laz for a little longer. I wasn't quite ready to let go of my dreams. I really need to start writing them down again as they are deep and meaningful and hard to want to wake up from. I got up and got on the computer, read a little, called hubby at work. Last night hubby called and said our friend, Frank, was coming home with him as Frank's girlfriend, Lisa, thought he was having an affair with another man and she wanted him gone. Hubby talked to her several times yesterday and she said she wanted him gone for a couple of days. Just how long this couple of days is, who knows. Hubby was not going to let Frank be homeless and I agree, it wouldn't be the christian thing to do. For whosoever takes care of the least of my brothers...
So this morning Frank went with hubby off to work, as Frank's job is just off the same street that hubby's university is and Frank was going to see if he could get more hours and pick up his paycheck. Come to find out that when Frank had a baby girl many, many years ago, he never paid child support and now the state of Maine has found him. According to hubby, 40% of Frank's gross paycheck is going to pay back the state, so out of his paycheck, he had $19.00. He gave us $15.00. Frank also is on food stamps and $50 of it left so that he will spend on food to stay here.
At lunch, hubby brought Frank back, he doesn't work again until Monday. I thought Frank has a good job, or at least a job to support himself but hubby didn't tell me until now that Frank only works about 15 hours a week. Frank needs to find another job. But in the meantime we will do what we need to do to make it work. Frank is going to make himself useful in the house. So this afternoon he cleaned the kitchen, emptied the dishwasher, swept the floor and pulled out some meat that he brought with him last night. He also cooked dinner.
About 2pm, I went downstairs and started looking for the stuff I needed to make Cassie's wedding bouquet. I found all the broaches, found the wire and masking tape and a lot of the other things I need. I turned on the tv in the kitchen for noise and finished looking through my supplies. I put away a lot of yarn. Then I sat down at my newly cleaned off worktable that hubby did for me and started to remember how to do the bouquet. The first step was to wire the broaches. I remember seeing a YouTube video on doing this, making a broach bouquet. You take two long pieces of wire, bend one in half, and wrap around a section of broach, twisting the wire. You do this on opposite sides of the broach, then you twist the two wires together, making a stem. I will be doing this for another day, at least.
I was terrified of starting this project, being able to see it in my head how it can come out but scared to start to prove if I could really do it or not. The first broach I did took a long time, just getting started and doing the twisting. The more I do the easier it is getting and the faster I am getting. After hubby got off of work, a little early, that was nice, he brought down his ipad and set it up for me so I could watch tv right there at the table. Tomorrow I'm going to see if he will let me watch it all afternoon.
So we have been looking for the dress I bought to wear to the wedding and we found it. I went upstairs to try it on and even though it was size 16, it had been altered and didn't fit me at all. Bummer! I had the alterations all planned and what I was going to wear with it. Now tomorrow hubby and I are going out dress shopping, on a limited budget.
Today I had to call our mail order prescription company and order two more prescriptions that I will be out of in a a little more than a week. Well, we had to pay off our bill to them, $90 and then they required that I pay for the two prescriptions also, $86.50. That was $90 we weren't expecting to have to spend. So that left us with around $60 to get us through until next week. And I have to buy a dress with it.
Tomorrow morning hubby and I are going to get up and walk the dogs if it isn't raining, then go to the thrift stores to see if I can find a dress. Then if I can't find one at the thrift stores, we will go to Ross.
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