Desperately Need to Work More

I need to get more work done in a very short amount of time. At the moment I only need $12 but that will soon turn to $47. You don't want to know. There are still two empty supplement bottles on my counter that are about to be joined by a third. The good news is that Christmas vacation has started, we only have three therapy sessions and one appointment to go to during that time. The bad news is that Christmas vacation has started. My darling little one is determined that mommy can not work during the hours that she is awake by the time she goes to bed my eyes are tired and in need of rest.

I am in need of more hours in the day or I will have to begin considering a daycare since she does not start going to school all day school begins next year. Although I am considering taking her out of school since the speech therapist there never sends her stuff home, instead she throws it in the garbage when my child that has a diagnosis that includes behavioral issues has a behavioral problem. I really don't appreciate that. I also did not appreciate when our private speech gave the OT a cookie for her as a reward only to have the OT throw it away when the child did not do the task instead of giving it to me to take with me. We do not waste food and had I paid for the $5 pack of cookies that came out of I would have required compensation.

I do believe these people think that I am made of money since I do not complain about it. The simple act of purchasing gasoline to get her to appointments puts a financial strain on the household budget which is fixing to get tighter if I do not manage to become more productive soon.

I began a book that I hope to finish and publish by the end of January. It is a short book because it does not need a lot of details to make it finished. I have another one in mind to write after it but I have to make sure that it is fine with some people first. I hope to at least manage two ebooks in 2012, once I meet that goal I'll set the next one.

I am filing for divorce in 2012, this marriage is over. I need $170 to file the papers plus the cost of the notary public before I can file them. This is going to be interesting. I am in debt once again but that's ok. I've dug out of this hole before and I can again.

Changing approaches and learning something new

I give up. I'm changing my approach to work and learning something new. I'm trying my hand at writing news articles and learning to use third person which is rather difficult for me since I prefer to feel as if I am talking to someone instead of at them.

If I figured it right I currently have $21 for Christmas for three kids and a birthday present for one. I get an unexpected payday this month which will give me $30, I need to keep approximately $15 of that for gas just in case. I have no idea what to get any of them I just know whatever it is won't be expensive.

I decided to use Swagbucks for all my searches. I'm using the SB's to get $5 gift cards for Amazon.com. The goal is to save them up until October possibly November of 2011 and use them to help covers the kids gifts.

The bills are increasing next month so my work schedule is going to be even more hectic. Sadly enough I'm thinking of cutting back therapy to make up for the income decreases since gas prices are on the rise. Well, I'm not getting any work done rambling here so I'm going now.

Almost all the bills are paid!

Well, almost all of the bills in my name anyway! I have to payout $20, $21.80 and $21.80 the rest of this month. I've still got to buy the fish oil however. I keep forgetting. The rest of my bills total $ $63.60! That'll leave a little bit of money to get the girls Christmas and Theresa's birthday present. I'm thinking we'll skip the party again this year. It's a hassle and we have therapy the 23rd so I won't have all the time off that I thought I would. Oh well, I can still get plenty of housework and work work done during the time we do have off.

Tomorrow we go to the grocery store. I got paid a day early and we need food. Not to be rude but if I got rid of the overgrown toddler I'd spend 1/4 of what I spend now and have enough groceries to last the month in one trip. I've got to pick up a couple bars of Octagon to have on hand for when I need to make more laundry soap, I think I'll get a bar of Zote to mix with it. That's only $3 less if I go to two different stores to get the soap. 

I think that I'll go get a pick 6 meat for $19.99 and a few vegetables. I'll get the baby some milk, snacks and a bit of frozen juice maybe. She likes kool-aid. I got her pull-ups and some more wipes today so I don't have to buy them tomorrow. I do have to pack her bag with the juice and chocolate gold fish so I don't spend money on snacks while we're out. I think I'll buy myself another bottle to take with us when we're out. I need a water bottle for the fridge so that I can stop running water into a glass every time I want some.

The splurge I want is a new flavor cartridge for the filter. I need a new water filter for the sink so I can actually drink the water that comes out of it. I don't like water and my flavor cartridge keeps me from buying flavored bottles. OK I'm tired so I'll be going for today.

Making up for time off

Today is not a rather productive day so far. I managed to complete one article and begin another one. So today’s total so far is $2.50 provided I keep my writing percentage up to earn that if not it’s a $2 day so far. I figured out that I’m way behind on my earnings for December already but I think I figured that out too.

The earnings for the month of December are already pretty much set so there’s nothing to do except write some articles to other sites for upfront payments. I have to write everyday to make up for the time off that I took the last few months. There are some adjustments that I have to make to my schedule because of the increased amount of time we'll be at the clinic for therapy. Little things like taking paper to figure the budget and updating my diary so that I can type those up at wikinut as diary pages to earn from the page views.

If I can manage to come up with enough items to review that I can get $20 I'll be up to the $50 for payout at Review Stream. I'm hoping to get enough before the end of December. My three girls are each getting Christmas and the two with birthdays will get presents too. That's five gifts, one for each girl, one for each occasion. I'll be testing the "review anything and get paid" theory a great deal this month. I know food reviews, people reviews and product reviews are excepted but what else can I review. People reviews only get about $0.50 each so that'd be about twenty people to review. I know a couple of people I can write reviews of today, I can write one on my pets as well. That'll just leave a lot of work to earn a little bit of money for payout. I think I can manage to get it down to writing a few reviews in an hour each day.

Well, I'm not earning anything by sitting here thinking about what I should do so I think it's time to go back to work for the day.

Making Plans now to figure out how to accomplish them

Well, lately I've been making plans in an attempt to figure out what to get my girls for their birthdays and Christmas. I figured out what to get the little one, the older ones that's a bit tougher. This year they each get one gift for each occasion plus whatever unneeded item their grandparents have decided are must haves.

I have been planning on reopening my savings account for sometime now and it has yet to work out. If I remember correctly I only need $50 to reopen it. I have the feeling that's gonna be after the first of the year, I am sure I need to see if it can be reopened for a smaller amount. I figure even if I can only put $1 a month into that's better than nothing at this point. I also have to figure out just how much I have to cut back and earn in order to get by if it comes down to get my income to take care of most things around here.

This weekend I wrote and submitted what I think was three reviews that will probably end up getting me an entire 50 cents each. Of course it didn't really take that long to write them so it's not like I worked for less than a $1 an hour, I would have liked to finish the Autism article I started writing early in the week though.

I have almost figured up the total cost of Theresa's supplements. I figured that to get the house I want I have to down size for a while. Downsizing means less room but it also means lowering the bills. Less space takes less effort to heat and cool. If I could afford a camper I could park it under the trees here while I make the plans for the house I want. The house I want has drastically decreased in size over the years.

I saw a small counter top washing machine and little dryer that would come in handy for camping if I ever went again. OK now my mind is wandering. I've decided to start using my swagbucks to get $5 Amazon gift cards and save them in my amazon account until I have the money to purchase the items I want.

Not very productive

I managed to write two new articles today and make a list of six to try and write tomorrow. I started an article this morning. I think I managed to get half way through before I left it and went to write something else. Of course since it's so close to Christmas all the articles that I picked for tomorrow are related to the holiday. I chose some that are dated but once I write those I'll find some that aren't.

I'm looking at the empty and popular titles to see where I want to write. I think I'll do a few diary pages at wikinut this weekend. I can break the week up into individual pages. Today Theresa has a schedule change that she took well so I can write about that.

I'll be redoing the budget tonight and tomorrow. This month saw a $320 light bill and over $100 in doctor's bills for my eye that weren't planned for. I've got to pay $53 next month that wasn't in the budget. I'm not sure but I think my auto insurance is due next month. Instead of paying it off for the next six months I'll be paying it by the month because I can't come up with the entire amount. I have to get brakes on my truck too.

I'm not sure when I'll be able to get brakes. I just know the last estimate was about $250. I think I'll start hiding some cash until I have enough to replace them. Well, it's time to go ramble about Theresa's day and then call it a night.

Painful Time Off

The time I took off the past couple of days was rather painful. Thursday I poked myself in the eye with the arm of my glasses. The pair I'm supposed to be wearing is broke so I'm wearing an old pair that is actually too old. The arm I poked myself with is just metal now. Rather painful to say the least, more painful was cancelling Friday and this coming Monday's therapy sessions to go the doctor. I scratched my cornea and added to the list of things I never wanted to know. There are more nerve endings in the cornea than the rest of the body.

I don't have insurance because it usually costs me more to pay for it than it pays out as little as I go to the doctor. Well, my visit required $50 upfront and then I could pay half of the remainder to set up a payment plan. The remainder was just under $45 and I have to go back again. I decided to go ahead and pay that to make the balance due after the next visit the only portion I have to make payments on. $95 plus that was not planned for.

I estimated and I figure I have about $70 to get everything that we need to get me by until I get paid again on the 10th. Then the last bill for the month will get paid. I have to put gas in the truck to get my kid to therapy out of that $70 too. I have a feeling I'm going to end up rolling my change to get something I forget to put on my shopping list. I may take it and pour it into one of the counting machines that gives gift cards and use that to get what I need.

Well, I'm tired and I have a few things to do. I wrote one article today, it was about Christmas dinner. I still can't get into my AC account so I can't submit content there for upfront there. It'd be really nice if I could because they pay faster and I could actually use the money at the moment. Well, back to work.