Recent Entries

• Rent paid

  January 9, 2020

  I finally got the money to pay the rent today, that's a relief. But I am running out of money and still no Social Security. Frankly, I'm worried that next month will be the same old story. It's getting old having to worry about money constantly with no relief in sight. I have to get…

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• New Year, same old shit

  January 4, 2020

  Well 2020 hasn't gotten off to a good start. I can't pay my rent again. It's a really big deal, because if I don't pay it by the 10th, they start eviction proceedings, which seems kind of quick. So I have to get $1300 by the 10th to avoid all that crap. Wish me luck!…

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• New Year, New Me?

  December 28, 2019

  I'm looking forward to a lot of new things in the coming year. I am starting to collect SS but keeping my part time job at the spa for now. A lot of people have left or are leaving soon. Not usually a good sign. I'll hang in there as long as I can. If…

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• Update

  December 23, 2019

  I went to sign up for Social Security on Friday. I hope I can start collecting next month. I will be getting my own benefit and some additional benefits from my ex husband combined. I am pretty happy with the amount I am getting especially since I was out of the work force for many…

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• Poverty meal

  December 7, 2019

  When I am really broke like I am today, I go to Burger King and get their 10 piece chicken nuggets with honey mustard sauce for $1.49 plus tax and use my change to get a can of Arizona ice tea for 99 cents plus tax. So for less than $3, I got a little…

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• Wow. It’s December already?

  December 2, 2019

  Time surely does fly. And don't call me Shirley! Only some of you will get that reference. So what has happened since I last wrote here? Nothing much. Let's see, where do I start? Still living with my youngest daughter, she finally got a job. She works as a delivery driver for Panera bread. She&h...

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• Yep it’s winter again

  April 10, 2019

  After enjoying two lovely days of Spring like weather, it's back to the 40s, rainy, damp and cloudy again. Well it was nice while it lasted anyway. I am taking a class in how to read tarot cards. It's something I always wanted to try so why not? I always like learning new things. So…

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• We had our one day of Spring

  March 26, 2019

  Living in the upper midwest is so bipolar when it comes to the weather. We had one kind of nice spring like day, the calendar says it is Spring and yet it is still cold. A few days ago just a few miles south of us, they had about 2 inches of snow overnight. I…

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• It’s March…still cold!

  March 6, 2019

  Well it's a new month but it still feels like winter here in good old Chicagoland. I am so over it. I want to be some place warm! I have been rereading my old entries, going way back to 2003. It is painful. Mostly it is about my marriage imploding and my sad desperation to…

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