Money

One of the things I have been freaking out about, is that my sister informed me that she would not be able to help with the tax bill for the house next year. My sister has been paying it since Daddy died. Yes, she has been wonderful to me. The reason that she won't be able to help me anymore is, that Margaret is going to start at San Jose next fall. It's going to cost around $40,000 a year. And it's going to take around 8 years for Margaret to become a vet.

So I slammed a door on spending money. I started brown bagging it to work. Every week I go buy my food. Right now I'm living on Land O" Frost peppered ham sandwiches. I put mayo and pickles and slices of tomatoes on whole wheat bread. I have sugar snap peas with them and red grapes. For supper I make a soup recipe that I got out of Good Housekeeping. Chicken broth, shredded cheese, skim milk, broccoli, red potatoes, onions, and kale. Bran flakes for breakfast with skim milk. Snacks, pretzels, vanilla yogurt with green apple slices. I also put some of the ham into the soup as well. I'm made three batches so far.

A side effect is that I am LOSING weight!!! I appear to have lost ten pounds so far. I can fit back into my 18's again! What the hell! Exactly how many calories are in the health food store sandwiches?

But the best effect is that I am SAVING MONEY!!!:) Not quite sure how much yet, but it appears to be in the $500.00 range. I cannot tell you how shocked I am, at how much I was spending on crap food. It makes me so ashamed for a couple of reasons. One, if I had been doing this all along, my sister wouldn't have had to help me out, very much at all. I could have gotten the house re-pipe by now, if I had been brown bagging it since I started at the florist. And so on, and so forth. I cannot change what has been, I can only change the now.

I wonder what my blood pressure/cholesterol is right now?