Sorry if today's post is a little incoherent.
Why is it that bad things happen to good people and good things happen to stupid people?
Lately Ricky and I have been having some financial trouble. It's nothing major, but it is there none-the-less. We're constantly living from paycheck to paycheck and it always seems like we're just barely getting by. I guess that's what happens when you have four mouths to feed and only one person working. Ricky tries so hard to make ends meet for our family. Since we can't afford day care I won't be able to get a job until the girlies go to school. Right now we've got some extra scholarship money coming in, but we're still waiting on the check. We're always waiting on the check. Whenever we need the money it's not available to us.
What I don't get is why people who work hard and try to have a decent (not lavish) life get crapped on constantly. For a few months, we were able to get food stamps, and it really helped out a lot. We only got $83 a month, but that was more than enough to get the twins their baby food and us some staple food. We had to re-certify the other day and were told we now make too much money. All because this semester I received scholarship money over and above my tuition. Is that not some crap? I'm trying to better myself and am now getting punished for it.
I'm always a little scared to mention other family members in this blog unfavorably because I'm so afraid they'll stumble across it one day. As small a possibility that it is, it is still there. But this time there's really no way of getting around it.
The whole point I'm trying to get at is that my sister-in-law (who's 21) and her husband (they haven't even been married a year yet) have already filed bankruptcy and are now back living with my in-laws. They are so stupid, and yet they get to live free and clear! How is that fair? Because they were stupid and racked up credit card debt, now their debt is wiped clean and they don't have to pay for anything? I think that if my mother-in-law is going to support them, then they should be sending us money monthly as well. I mean, my mother-in-law quit her job because her husband was making enough money to support her (after my husband and sister-in-law moved out). And now that my sister-in-law has moved back in, she had to get a job. Clearly my sister-in-law is not supporting herself if my mother-in-law now has to get a job!
So, tell me...why are we having trouble when they are getting everything???
Britney Marie
Saturday, June 28, 2008
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You have no idea how many times I have said those exact words. It's so difficult when you try so hard and get nothing. We're right on that line of making too much for assistance but not enough to make ends meet too. I just thank goodness for the help we do get from our Moms.
And if I hear one more person tell me how lucky I am to stay home and now work I'm going to go insane. People don't understand that if I did go back to work my entire paycheck would go ONLY to daycare and that is just plain pointless.
*Hugs* I am right here with yah girl!
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