Shopping for Thanksgiving Dinner

Wow...today we went grocery shopping for Thanksgiving dinner and I was not suprised at the amount that it cost but my boyfriend was.  I had him go with me to help get the stuff because I wanted him to see that it is not an easy task, grocery shopping that is, and I wanted him to see what this meal was going to cost to feed 13 people.

There is alot more involved than just time to prepare the dinner and make the plans and try to get everyone together at the same time with them having to go to multiple places and have multiple meals all in one day.  The grocery bill by the way was $204.00 and he nearly went into shock.  I let him know that I spend that on groceries alot just to keep food in the house and it not is easy, the food prices go up everyday and it gets harder and harder to prepare meals when you are not able to get as much from one week to the next and he didn't quite understand that, but he does now.  This was not an I told you so lesson it was just something that I thought that he should know.  This will make the cost per plate approximately $15.70 person and five of them are children.  I think that it is a crying shame that people are put in aposition where they cannot afford to prepare a decent nutritional meal for their families and they cannot qualify for food stamps either because they went over by $4.00.

I guess once the meal is prepared and all the bellies are full  and satisfied then it will be well worth the cost and the time, and then we start preparing for Christmas and not just the dinner.  I can only imagine, so I decided to start getting the non-perishables now and then as time gets closer hopefully the grocery bill will go down.

I love to cook and I'm not complaining about that, I just wish it wasn't such a huge expense to get to bring a family together for a nice meal and to be able to socialize.  I hope all have a HappyThanksgiving and get to spend it with those you want to.

just another day

It's just another day, one less that I have to work and one less blog I have to post.  The day started out with an emergency at the clinic early this morning and the animal past away and then I hurried home to get around for school and went to tutoring and then class and back at work that was crazy busy with animals that would be better off taking care off themselves for no better care than the owners take of them.

I love my job and the animals , I just don't like seeing what some of them have to go through.  It is hard and sad but rewarding at the same time. 

It's just another day.

The Friday Blahs

It's Friday and here I am writing another blog and don't know what to say.  I have been sick all week and as you may or may not know I am a kidney donor in a the paired program and the person that I am trying to help is in renal failure and will not do what she should have done months ago and went on dialysis.  I have been doing some research because some of the things that she tells me isn't making much sense to me so I went online to the National Kidney Center to look up information on renal failure  and found out some very interesting things that I didn't know and neither did she. 

I believe that there are people who are very strong in their faith but when your life is put in jeopardy because you believe that God is going to heal you and you refuse other treatment, then I think there is a problem.   I have gone though extensive testing for this for her and have even put my grades in jeopardy which right now really pisses me off because I work very hard to get the grades I do and I don;t miss class even when I am sick, but she needed me to get my testing done, so the only time I had available was during midterms because she didn't want to wait a week and she reminded me that her kidney function was an 11(already in renal failure) so I went and missed a mid-term exam and screwed up my grade and now Im digging myself out of a hole.  Now don't get me wrong I am glad that I am going to be able to help her get a kidney, but now her kidney function is a 5 and she doesn't find it necessary to go on dialysis...are you kidding me. 

Needless to say, I got upset and called her and let my concerns be known but I don't think that it did any good she feels that she is doing great. Who does that?   I just don't get it.

I seem to have lost my train of thought because thinking about it makes me that angry.  Help those who help themselves..whoever thought that left it open for argument.    

Friday Blog

Here it is once again Friday and time for a blog and what do I have for this one, "nothing".  I have been very preoccupied with work, finances, registration for classes, homework and trying to keep it all together , not to mention being on alert always for a call that I need to go to St. Louis for the transplant and now with the holidays coming on there is that much more to think about and I am just flat overwhelmed.  I've got myself in a financial jam and can't seem to get out and that stresses me out to the max....I think that is my biggest worry, how to handle the mess I got into and how to get out.  I am working on a solution but I don't know that it is a promising one or not, though I would like to think so, you know they call that "wishful thinking", but it's all I got right now.

I want to be caught up on all my bills and all my school work and be able to look back on this ugle situation and say that I was able to get myself out.  I just need people to work with me a little and not keep harassing about money that I do not have.  How do you tell someone that your hours got cut back from work because it is the slow time and therefore you are not making as much but they think you should still be able to pay the same amount regardless, even when you do not have it....ridiculous I say..hello, do the math.  I want to pay, I can't pay or at least not that much ,but when I get back up on my feet I will pay more.  Why is that so hard to understand. 

I go to school to better myself and to get a degree so that I can make more money, but that won't happen for a while and I can't work a full and part time job because then I couldn't go to shool and the full time job won't pay all the bills, but I don't want to give up school...I wish people were a little more sympathetic to the issues at hand.  I would be, they must have lots of money and not have problems, I bet that's it, so lets crap on the people who are on the poverty level and falling fast.  That would be me and thank you and have a nice day to you too.