I am hungry and REALLY have to pee, but...

I am hungry and REALLY have to pee, but I'm getting some super precious tort snuggles.  Baby has been chilling on my chest, AWAKE, for the last 10 minutes or so. ❤

Today I gave myself permission...

Today I gave myself permission to say "NO" AND "STOP" to someone who was using me.  BEST GIFT EVER.  I know I sound like a Scrooge to have done that on Christmas, but it had been building since August and enough was enough.

Letting a grown-ass person depend on me wasn't really doing them any favors, either, so maybe it was a gift to them, as well... although, I highly doubt that they will see it that way.  Oh well.

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The person you helped me help... they have been here literally every week since then asking me for things. 🙁 Toilet paper, tampons, food, change, Swiffer pads... I mean, it's too much. WAYYY TOO MUCH. Last night when I didn't have a dollar she wanted to ask my child for it. That was crossing a line.

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I mean, I'm not even always able to give her what she asks for, but I know that Shaun has given her food he was about to eat and things like that. They get food stamps and no one is looking for a job, so I'm just over here like, "Make your food stamps last and find a job. I can't keep doing this."

I mean, of all people to beg off of. Yes, I have Shaun, but I maintain my household as a single person. It's no secret that I'm not rolling in the dough.

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This is why I prefer to help animals. LOL They are always more grateful.

Also, I've been feeding her cat for about 7 months now. I will continue doing that.

I hope that everyone's had a good day.

I hope that everyone's had a good day.  I'm finally home, so I'm happy about that.

I saw both of my parents and my brother today, so that was nice.  Then we saw Shaun's parents and that was pretty funny in a few different ways.  They gave Shadow rolls of quarters this year.  They did that last year, too, and that's ok.  I don't think that is totally unheard of.

But I feel like the gift they gave me was pretty out there.  They gave me 9 packs of gum.  LOL  I would take offense except that I have been at their house when I've had a sore throat and have asked for a piece of gum, so they knew I would chew it (even though I generally don't, but there are times that I will).  So that was pretty funny.  😃

THEN, the food.  Look, I'm not making fun of Shaun's mom for her inability to cook because I have that, too.  I don't give a shit.  It's not something I'm good at or care about, so whatever.  If I know that I have company coming I'll order pizza or bake a frozen one or something like that if we're not going out.  No biggie, right?

Well, for Thanksgiving and Christmas she tries to cook.  She probably shouldn't, but she does.  LOL

Let me preface this piece of my story with this bit of information:  We had lunch with Shaun's parents at Logan's on Monday.  His mom ordered some food - part of which was a loaded sweet potato.  She didn't finish her food (she never does) so she took a bunch home.  Most notably, she took the sweet potato home because I watched her scrape it out of its skin, all the while wondering why she didn't just pick the whole thing up and stick it in the box.

Well, when we got there she said "I made some sweet potatoes for you."  I like sweet potatoes and usually have one whenever we go out, so she knows I eat them.  For Thanksgiving she made some sweet potato something that was pretty good, so that's what I thought we were having.  Nope.  It was very obviously her leftover loaded sweet potato from Logan's - scraped into a tin so it could be re-heated.  LOL  Needless to say I did not eat it.

She totally cracks me up with her "cooking."  My first experience with that was when she brought us some muffins to work one day.  Shaun had warned me about her food, but at that point I didn't know better and thought "It can't be THAT bad."  Only after I took a bite of one of those muffins did she disclose that she'd put cereal and Red Hots in them.  She just makes up shit and does whatever.  She's also brought us moldy cookies.  LOL  Hey, it keeps things interesting, at least.

BUT, from now until forever the rule is that we're stopping at my mom's house first on holidays so I can eat real food that isn't old and / or experimental.  LOL  I think that is totally legit.  😃

Anyway, yeah, glad to be home, hope everyone had fun, and now I'm off to wash a dog.  ❤

(And for the record I am not complaining about the gifts or the food.  I don't really celebrate Christmas so I don't have any expectations and therefore I'm not disappointed about anything.  I just found my day to be funny and interesting, so I thought I'd share.)  😃

I know that a lot of my friends aren't big fans...

I know that a lot of my friends aren't big fans of Wal-Mart for various reasons, but I'm too poor to have a choice.  It's walking-distance from my house and I can afford it so I shop there A LOT.  Like, for almost everything I need.

So they are doing this thing now called Savings Catcher (where they compare prices to other stores in the area and give you the difference back if they find a lower price), so I signed up because why not?  Any little bit of money I save helps.

I also have a BlueBird card that I use for pretty much everything.  I load my entire paycheck on there every week and I use it to pay all of my bills.  I prefer it to using a bank - because no fees.  It's not even possible to overdraft on it.  I prefer to have my card declined to being slammed with a $35 fee when I'm obviously already broke as shit.

So, if you sign up for Savings Catcher and have the money you get back from that sent to your BlueBird account you get DOUBLE the amount back until February.  So the Savings Catcher has found $7-ish dollars in the last week for me and since I've had it sent to my BlueBird card I've gotten $15.  That is not nothing and all I've had to do is scan my receipts in.

Just thought I'd share that for any of my broke ass friends who might be interested.  🙂

Picked up my Epi pens today.

Picked up my Epi pens today. Kind of wonder if they are necessary. I've been eating chocolate for two days, and haven't kicked out my dogs, or cut down my trees. I guess it won't hurt to have them, just in case.

So quiet and calm out, and then...

So quiet and calm out, and then suddenly lightning hit so close that it set off Shaun's car alarm.

Decided to go to Wal-Mart, but they don't have power, either. I've never seen it so dark over there. Now we're at Los Arcos. LOL

Power is out.

Power is out. It's not storming - barely even sprinkling, yet Nappy is freaking out. Can't help but wonder if she's scared of the unexpected dark. Big old weenie.