Today was an efficient day. Remember that yesterday I spent the day doing up a menu plan for the dinners for the rest of the payday? And I did a grocery list along with it? Well, today it paid off.
I got up this morning with hubby and dropped him off at work. On the way there he kept telling me to tell the car repair center that the car shimmies now since the hit and run accident. But when I got there, I thought the shimmy was from the tires being bald and didn't mention it. I checked in and Al came out and looked at the car. He took pictures of what was wrong and said that on vehicles this old he would have a hard time finding parts. He said it would take him about 45 minutes and he would call me, so I left.
I went grocery shopping and had my list. I was determined to stick to it and just maybe get a couple of additional things if they were on sale. So I got everything on my list plus pork chops because they were on sale for $1.99 a pound, Luzanne Family Sized Tea Bags because they were marked down to $1.99 plus there was 30 tea bags instead of 24, Cherries because they were $4.99 a pound yesterday so I only got half a pound but were now $1.99 a pound so I got 2.5 pounds, a store brand hazelnut coffee because it was on sale for $5.99 and I was hoping that hubby would consider mixing his expensive coffee with this store brand coffee in a 50/50 mixture to test if we could stretch out his coffee, milk because it was on sale for $1.88, an extra container of sour cream to freeze because it was on sale 2 for $4.00 and I can freeze it and two extra cans of biscuits since they were only 50 cents each. I had a budget of $140 and I came in under budget at $132.57. I got enough to make dinner until the 16th for 3 adults and should have leftovers enough for hubby to take to work for lunches.
After I was done grocery shopping I went home and Frank, our now roommate again, unloaded the car for me. I put everything away and drank a can of Pepsi. I thought about eating lunch but wasn't really hungry so I just drank the Pepsi. Hubby called at 315 and told me his meeting was done so I could come get him for lunch and to switch the car.
When I picked him up he asked me if I told the repair shop that the car shimmied and I told him I thought the shimmy was from the bald tires and no, I didn't. He started yelling like I called his mother a whore. I told him about what Al had said that the parts were going to be hard to find and may cost more than the car is worth and if that happened, the insurance company would total the car. They would give us a check for the value of the car and we could buy it back for a cheap price and the balance of the amount would be ours. Then we would be responsible to fix the car ourselves. Hubby said that was unacceptable and he would insist that the insurance company fix the car and I told him that is not how it works, he wouldn't have an option in that case. My goodness! He just kept yelling at me and telling me that I was screwing it all up and he would make the insurance company fix the car. I asked him to stop yelling at me but he didn't. I asked him what else had happened today to make him so tense that he was blowing this all out of proportion. He said nothing happened and it was all my fault that he was so tense. By this time we were home and I asked if I could make him a sandwich but he just kept yelling so I told him just to go back to work and cool off. We were on the same side.
I then got on the computer and wrote some to my cousin and to my nephew. Then I went through my email. Then I fed the beasties, including Brent's dog, Dixie, that was still with us. Brent was going to pick her up late tonight. Frank offered to feed everybody for me but I knew what measurements to feed everybody and just went ahead and did it. Then I cleaned the rattie boys' cage and fed them.
I put together a whole chicken with chopped up potatoes in a pan and roasted it. I added a little bit of wine for flavor. Then I played on the computer until hubby called and said he was on his way home. I talked to Cassie while I was playing on the computer, she told me that she hurt her back when she was spotting the girls in her gymnastic's class Monday night and it really hurt still. She thought if it still hurt this bad tomorrow, she might go into the doctor's.
Hubby got home just as I was heating up the vegetable, french cut green beans, and pulling the chicken out. The potatoes were cooked perfectly and I had made just the right amount for the 3 of us. After dinner, I boned the chicken and put the shredded leftovers in the freezer to use later to make my version of chicken pot pies. It is going to be on the menu for the next payday. And I decided on one change to the dinner menu, instead of making Taco Bake again this Friday, we still have leftovers from it from the last time I made it, we will just eat beef stew two nights in a row. I will make the Taco Bake next payday menu since I have already bought all the stuff for it.
Hubby hasn't apologized for all the yelling but I will be the bigger person and just let it go. I did call the repair center and left a message that the car shimmies now since it has been hit when we get to higher speeds, then had left a message for hubby telling him what I did. I did this earlier in the day.
Since Frank can't pay very much in rent and can only pay $140.00 a month for food, he is going to have to do a lot of work around the house. I will have a list of jobs that I want him to do like all the housework that I don't do plus extra jobs like cleaning the windows and washing the walls. He only works part time and a big chunk of his paycheck goes to pay back child support. I'm going to talk to hubby and tell him that I think Frank should have to pay us 2/3rd of his paycheck to us and he can keep 1/3rd to pay for his cigarettes and alcohol.
I changed my mind about letting Frank come live with us because he would otherwise have to go live in a homeless shelter and it's not always guaranteed that he could get into the shelter every night. Then he would be sleeping on the streets and I didn't want that to happen.
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