What is something your body makes naturally that is lifesaving and for which you can receive a paycheck? Plasma! Here in Decatur at CSL Plasma the first five donations earn $50 each. After that it is based on weight. A donor can give plasma twice a week but no more than that in a 7 day period. So I went and signed up. But because I am on so many medications I have to get a list of my meds and what they are for from my doctor and his approval for me to donate. It is a 45-90 minute process. The money is then logged on to a visa card to be used anywhere. It can be changed to a debit card as well.
I know that this sounds like a desperate attempt to earn money, but I qualified and as long as I stay healthy I can donate. Once I get that doctor's approval.
I have also been going through Macon Resources Inc., a company that specializes in getting those on disability back to work. I'm a little nervous, but I brought them my portfolio and they are excited and looking for something for me to do. I am doing well at this writing. I have stopped counting the days, I just am on a good roll and going to go with it. I have three references, all people I have worked with in the past. I guess I just want a normal life again...in SO many areas!!
Our envelope system is working. We have $25 left for the week for groceries and that will just about do it! It is SO nice not having the temptation of the checkbook. We are actively working on deciding what does and does not constitute an emergency. We need a new toilet seat, not an emergency, we need to have a septic pipe checked for a clog due to the smell...pretty much an emergency. Plumbing problems always seem to have "emergency" written all over them, yet it is in addressing them that proves if they are or not. One member of the family believes it IS, where the other doesn't think it is such a big deal. Clash of the titans. Either way it has to be addressed. I have stocked up on air freshener, waiting for my other half to find a guy with a ladder (I believe we should OWN a ladder) I don't think that constitues an emergency either, I just thinks it counts as a necessity. We need a ladder to access the vent to the septic that goes up through our roof to see if anything has fallen into it to clog the vent. Otherwise I think we may need to have our septic pumped. Yay.
On another note, I am very concerned about the state of our country. President Obama's healthcare bill has been ruled unconstitutional yet he ignores that. Right now in Wisconsin the Republican governor Scott Walker is calling for public employees such as the teacher's union and others to give back 5% of their benefits which the private sector do not receive, and stop collective bargaining to help balance the budget. Teamsters in Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other states are protesting the bills that Obama had said, "we need to tighten our belts, live within our means" which he means everyone who are tax payers, not government workers, not congressmen, lawyers, politicians. The tax payers can only be squeezed so much. And Obama ordered democrats TO the protests. Teachers have walked off their jobs which is illegal to protest for their collective bargaining rights. What about the rights of WE THE PEOPLE who pay their salaries? I don't want to hear one more whine from one more teacher about their pay or their job. They only work nine months out of the year and no one forced them into this line of work. Now if Miners had a beef with working conditions, I might have more sympathy, but I've had it up to here with whiny teachers. We ended up home schooling due to teacher ineptitude and oversight.
Here's another thing. The liberal media has gone too far. Farther left, no fair and balanced coverage. It used to be, Evening news, "here are the facts: X number of murders, this is what is happening in the middle east, There is a drought in Florida, more news at 11." And human beings came to their own conclusions, now we are spoon fed the news.
Planned Parenthood is on the chopping block for defunding. Joy Behar, a talk show host brought on her show pro-choice planned parenthood workers and supporters, brought no other viewpoint onto the show and bashed Republicans calling them immoral, blah, blah, and stupid. being called immoral for wanting to not use my tax dollars to pay for abortions? Does she know what morality IS? I'd like to see her dictionary. In fact I'd like to see Obama's and the Harry Reid's, Nancy Pelosi's version of the Constitution and DOI...and their dictionary and thesaurus. I'm fed up with ACTUAL liberal manipulation of facts, figures, media and their party. I think most tax payers are tired of it all. That is what November 2 was about. Wait until the Presidential election of 2012. But if Obama continues his lackidasical approach to terror, Egypt, Libia, Yemen and other places in the middle east and his focus on his party's involvement in Wisconsin and Ohio, maybe he IS above it all and our country is over.
Okay, off my soap box.
Just got done talking to my husband. He agrees we need a ladder. We'll see how soon we get one.
A year of living like college students. Basically like living on nothing.
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