So here it is the end of September and I was finally able to register my freakin car which has needed to be registered since last November! Yes, that means I have 2 whole months to drive free of fear before it's time to start this whole process over again, only it will be worse because next time I'll need a safety and emissions inspection as well (I really should have become a mechanic or something useful). Serenity now!!
Is it me or does it feel like every day is a new assault of expenses? I am not enjoying this grim economy, our very tight budget or the fact that things wear out. I have taken to listening to relaxation and affirmation recordings on my iPod at night (originally this was just to help me sleep, but now has become my personal life coach).
So repeat after me, "I am always in the right place at the right time," "Money comes to me easily and frequently," "I love being successful!"
**Are your list of expenses piling up?
Do you have any daily affirmations?
Have you ever been super giddy about get your car registered?
Do you have any daily affirmations?
Have you ever been super giddy about get your car registered?
Comment Window Tidbit: Is it wrong that I almost never feel like making dinner? It's a nuisance for sure.
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school fees... school supplies... school clothes... dance... football... violin... piano... tumbling... broken arms... friends of scouting... birthday parties... it NEVER ends!! I frequently say, "Money sucks." But really I should be saying, "Lack of money sucks."
I think dinner is a nuisance too- who has time to cook between 4 and 8pm?!!
Are my expenses piling up? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
More like 2 steps forward, 6 steps back. At least my pay is finally getting fixed. Just in time to pay for a fuel pump.
I think I personally would have waited til Nov to renew my tabs. They should have just given you a Sept sticker, too. I hate the DMV.
our tags need to be done on one of our cars.
We also have dental fees, school fees, clothing fees, birthday fees etc....
All apart of the journey here in this life.
I get e-mails with scripture gems in them. Most of the time it feels like some one knew just what I need to feel up lifted.
Hey could you make sure my package made it to Jenn last week. It was due to get there by Friday and since I can't read her blog any more. I was hoping to find out if it made it. Thanks Jenny
An assault of expenses... the perfect description... another $1000 for us today, luckily Jimmy fixed the leaky water heater for free... hopefully it holds out for a couple of more months.
I should do positive affirmations but instead I scream and cry. Whatever works right?
I need a job too... maybe while you are looking you could be looking for a job for two?
we went for years & years always worrying about our tabs... & now we don't... I still think about whether or not my tabs are expired everytime I see a cop.
Hang in there- it will get better! I know it will!!
A few years back... like 8 (longer than I thought) I lost 30lbs at WW. I would walk/run on my treadmill nearly everyday shouting in my head- I am young, I am strong, I am beautiful. It worked. I kept it off for 2 years- I need to get back & do that again, life got in the way & I stopped believing it. I really believe in those affirmations, the secret, positive carma- whatever you want to call it-
Keep listenin'
"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!"
My registrations expired in May, I've been avoiding it because i have a huge rock chip in my windshield and won't pass safety, and I just got a ticket Friday.
Dammit.
What I meant to say was, "I am young, I am strong, I am beautiful."
Thanks, Patsy.
oh my, affirmations is what I need, lately, all I hear or disaffirmations........
Yes, I've been giddy, especially this year. I went the whole year without knowing it (I think we already talked about this). Truly, slipped my mind completely. Ande got pulled over and given a ticket. I called the registration and they said, "Hang on another two weeks so you don't have to pay for the whole year and hope you don't get pulled over." Guess what? I get jury duty and have to park in the same parking lot as all of the cop cars. Argghhhh. Stressssssss. I was never so relieved as for the right day to come so I could be legal again.
I'm not fond of expenses like that. Nor taxes. I don't like lots of taxes either. However, I do like roads :)
I have a few 'go to meals' on those nights I just can't think of making dinner...
I think that this tape would stress me out somehow!
Wouldn't you know it, we owed even more taxes. Isn't 40% enough! Geesh! Tags are due for the cars in a month and wondering if we will be in another state before we have to do that.. we will see...
My daily affirmations are - you are strong, you are wise, you can do it.
I sometimes say this to myself OUTLOUD in the car... :-)
I am currently so stressed out about money that I am in a bad case of denial. I have been avoiding the dentist because I know that it is going to cost me like 3 mortgage payments or something crazy and I just haven't figured out how we'll pay for it yet.
I just constantly think how grateful I am that Jeff has a job...
Sorry your list of expenses is piling up! The one bonus of this last semester for us is that school is done and paid for, (no more saving for the next semester) so we finally have good wiggle room. That brings on the giddiness!
My only daily affirmation is rest/fight/rest:repeat. It works for me to keep going :)
I haven never let my registration go, but when I finally renewed my license (I think it had been 6 months?) I had a spring in my step and felt like an honest woman again!
I have been giddy about getting our car registered. While we were in college we had an OLD car and it would NEVER pass the inspections. My stomach would be in knots while I waited for the results and every time it would come back as fail. So I would have to go somewhere else to pass it.
We are finding a lot of stuff breaking and needing to be replaced or repaired and it is driving me crazy. Especially when it needs to be fixed and Jason isn't home to do it.
Everytime you post "serenity now!" it makes me giggle!
I'm not the one to ask becuase yesterday my mortgage company sent me a 3k REFUND for the excess in my escrow account. Yipee! I was literally dancing around my kitchen when I opened that mail yesterday!!
We don't have any type of emissions inspection here or anything, but then Louisiana is second only to Mississippi for its backwards ways.
It does seem like everything is so darn expensive - especially the basics like gas, milk, etc. Kim spends close to $1,000 per month on gas and it is really a budget buster for us.
Our expenses are definitely piling up in Paris -- it is so expensive to live here. The biggest expense is food! I spent $55 on food today, which equals roughly $80, and it is all gone now. Pretty standard.
I like your affirmations and the others that were posted in the comments! Today especially, I need them.
I don't have a daily affirmation but I do say "I'm so tired" like a mantra in my head a million times a day--i should switch to a daily affirmation.
Just to make you feel better... that $1000 bill turned in to $1230.08 and another $14,000+ got added to our pile today. I guess I should just give it up... we will always struggle. Not much of a mantra but really Oprah is the only one that seems to be working for.
I do think it is appropriate that you got your car stickers before Paris... at least you have something HUGE coming up... I don't know anyone else with that kind of fun going on right now.
I really am not upset, just defeated and tired of pretending it is going to get better.
Yikes, reading all the comments on this one can be a bit depressing.
While I don't have a family to provide for, piling expenses on my meager college wage often makes me unsettled. . . .
First of all, can we all hate Natasha?! Sorry Natasha, you know I love you, just feeling some vicious jealousy right now! I would love a random refund at the moment.
Secondly, I TOTALLY believe in those affirmations. They work. They really do. I wish I could remember to incorporate them in my life every day. It's positive self-talk and it will bring results. Most of us just don't know b/c we are so used to constantly assaulting ourselves with negative self-talk that we can't even imagine what might result if we redirected all that negative talk into something positive. Sorry I sound like a motivational speaker, but I've experienced it. (see marathon post)
And yes, dinner is a nuisance. I love quesadillas, Gifford is on to something!
This week has definitely been an assault on expenses for me! And to top that off, now I live in fear that the Franternal Order of Police are going to hire a hit man to come take me out since I refused to donate money to their fundraiser!
I especially hate it when someone comes right to my door to get me to buy something. It's one thing to tell "no" to someone on the phone but quite another when they are standing there looking you-- (most recently, the highschool girls lacrosse team selling raffle tickets) ugh! I got sucked in and then hated myself the minute I closed the door!
Well, you have Paris at least to look back fondly on during the tight times ahead. I always like to have a big splash out to remember fondly as I'm tightening my belt afterward. I think the big moments are sometimes worth a thousand tiny ones like a new book, lunch out, a $20 trip to the craft store. Then, there are times when I'd rather have the little things than starve through months of deprivation to have one big thing.
Never thought of using daily affirmations.
Am I missing out on something great that really helps? Maybe I'll check it out.
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