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School and Budget Woes

Nothing like setting up a budget to make you realize how poor you really are… Sarah and I established a budget to see how we can participate with CedarCreek’s Phase II Building Campaign, manage our current debt, save for our honeymoon, and still have money to go out to eat or buy miscellaneous living items and neccessities…  This is only a 6 month budget and will change drastically once we’re married as both of our employment situations change.  But the point being, for now we have it established that we’re each going to have ten bucks to spend a week for whatever we want.  We can save this and use it later in a lump sum, but our allowance is ten bucks…

So I figured, “Hey, once I’m full time at the creek and making $30,000 a year or so… I’ll be all set and kickin it in mula land…”  Wrong.  Apartment costs, food costs, utility bills, higher cell phone bill, car insurance for Sarah…. Yeah… I’m still at 10 bucks a week…. …. ….   I need me one of them winning lotto tickets… that’s what I need….

I don’t know… I know that I’m not in a BAD situation.  We can afford to live above bare neccessities.  We don’t think we’ll be eating Ramen Noodles and Hamburger Helper every night for a year like some people do, but we’re definitely not on easy street.  It’s going to be tough for me to go from a lifestyle like I have now of not caring where I spend money because I know that I have enough to go out to eat when I want to…. to being super conscious of all my purchases and keeping all my receipts…  Budgets suck!

On the school front, the class that I needed to get into is pretty much not an option barring a miracle.  The prof is being a jerk and won’t let me in despite my proposal to bring my own computer… Honestly, he’s not on my “good” side right now and I’m not gonig to say my true feelings about him on here…. so let’s just leave it at that.  What REALLY sucks is that I have him for another class anyway so I’m still going to see him and have to be all nice and kind when he’s screwing me over from graduating… GRRRRR!  On the other hand, I may have found an alternative to this class that I can take to graduate on time, but I’ll never get to attend my staff meetings at CedarCreek for the next 5 months which is REALLY BAD when I’m trying to go on staff full-time…. Freaking politics…. Anyway, I’m tired.  Time for bed.

Mood:  Annoyed with dumb people.